I saw that @MISSY gave out a little homework project and this sounded like a lot of fun.
As many of you know, I am a big fan of zombies, therefore, I decided to talk a little about them. about its existence...
We are in the Zombie era, we are all the rage on television, comics, video games, movies, t ... Live the Zombies! We passed many moments of tension and leave us an open door to think that there is life after death.
The most popular version is the Zombie says that the undead arise from a virus and transmitted by bites or direct contact with blood in an open wound. But this phenomenon does not arise from the imagination of science fiction filmmakers, has a much more murky origin will know then.
The real version of Zombie, indicating that they are people after death and subsequent burial, return back to the world of the living by the work of Haitian Bokor or black magicians.
The origins of this phenomenon are in Haiti and are due to black magic, African voodoo and superstition. The funny thing is that Haiti is the only country in the penal code, the punishment consists in the practice of zombification. "The Article 246 collected as attempted murder induction in person, by poisoning or use of certain substances, a death-like lethargy. And if this person is buried, but later exhumed to be alive, that happens to be considered attempted murder ".
The origin of these practices is very distant in time as they were brought by Africans to brought Caribbean states in colonial times slaves, but these techniques of black magic in which lobotomìzan their victims is very confusing even today.
The earliest known references, dating from early last century. William Seabrook, published a book in 1929 which stated that he had seen in person, undead working in the fields of sugar cane, the title is "The Magic Island". Later other writers joined this research, providing new clues to this tricky issue. The journalist Lafcadio Hearn Inez Wallace or investigated this in depth and extensive and credible reports led to the production of the first films on the zombie genre, like "I Walked with a Zombie" by Jacques Tourneur.
Research and best documented study so far came in the 80 hand ethnobotanist Wade Davis, with his book "The Zombie mystery". In this book, Davis showed some cases of zombies as the famous Clairvius Narcisse and the techniques and drugs used by Bokors to leave people in a state of catalepsy. This poison is able to stop and leave vital signs to a minimum.
This research caused a stir in the scientific community both supporters and critics, as in the pharmaceutical industry, which saw how to make money with these drugs.
Zombification, not only has been used to create obedient vassals, if not he has used as a warning to those who have challenged the various secret societies or mafias. Research suggests that it was used in policy and exemplary punishment as criminal associations.
Davis and his associates believed that there was a wonderful formulated ointment used by sorcerers, able to leave the body to limit the death and impossible to detect by a doctor. This magic dust had antidote that revived the dead, causing amnesia and leaving resurrected in a hallucinogenic state, which made him docile and submissive slave Bokor.
The product called "Zombie Powder" is a powerful application of natural chemical by the Bokor. This product done with a set of human, vegetable, animal, and mixed in your exact measurement produce the most innovative African-American witchcraft poison.
Is composed of plant extracts, human bones, tarantulas, poisonous toads, worms and other more rudimentary ingredients, but the secret lies in the Tetrodotoxin contained in pufferfish. Tetrodotoxin the "Blowfish" as it is known in Japan, is 1200 times more deadly than cyanide. In one fish, enough to kill 30 adult men poison.
The skin of the common frog, can also be lethal, since it has hallucinogens, and epileptic vasoconstrictor effects, especially if the frog has been frightened.
How to Create a Zombie:
To turn a person into a zombie, a witch or Bokor use the toxic poisons prepared. You can administer it in food or making your skin comes into contact with the product. One very common method is to sprinkle the zombie powder around the house of the victim, thus walking in the vicinity of the house, it will absorb through the soles of the feet or it breathe to raise dust when walking or sweeping.
Half of the process is to kill the victim with this preparation, the second part is digging up the dead. In Haiti the bodies are exhumed very rapidly, as the heat and humidity of the place make it decompose quickly. The witch must be quick so that the victim dies not suffocated by the grave, then you will eat datura (Datura stramonium), known as Moonflower, a psychoactive if administered in the right dose, but can be a deadly poison if given in excess.
Datura breaks any connection to reality after suffering the trauma of burial in life, mad and deletes all his memories. After obtaining the zombie will not know where it is, or what day it is or who is, remaining in a state of semi-consciousness psychotic delusion. In that state they are sold as slaves to the highest bidder and are fed back to the datura, as they begin to show any signs of lucidity. When they are old to work, they are killed.
There are a couple of cases of actual zombies, whose stories can lay the creeps.
For Clairvius Narcisse is the most famous. This man died in 1962 after an illness that was degenerating quickly. Admission to hospital with nausea, dizziness, coughing and breathing irregular, the next morning the symptoms increased and he died. His death certificate was signed by three doctors at the hospital. His body was buried and forgotten until 18 years after his death Clarvius Narcisse appeared in his old home alive and telling his creepy story.
Narcisse retained exceptionally lucid and able to explain your consciousness throughout the process that lasted his death, burial and resurrection.
He said he had listened to the doctors to certify his death. Savannah felt against his face, hear his sister mourn over his coffin and kept the scar that caused the nail that sealed the coffin. Then he described the terrible and agonizing silence and darkness of the cemetery.
Later I hear the voice of Bokor pronouncing his name, and he dug savagely beating him, then took him to a plantation on the other side of the country. When his master died, the zombies escaped and were wandering aimlessly on the island.
This man remembered everything that had happened, surely his own mind by not providing the Datura, it was regenerating, which caused all the memories return to their head.
The world of science fiction film and the zombie genre has become a phenomenon that moves masses, but even now it´s booming thanks to the television series, the way humans zombifican, this is far from reality that is based poison.
The zombies of our era are transformed by a toxin created in a laboratory, a virus that has mutated or genetically influenced by radioactivity. The mode of transmission can be by air, by a bite from a zombie or by contact with blood, either way it is a lot more colorful than the actual zombification form.
Now we know that zombies are real and they can walk beside us, just have to be observant and see who manipulates those beings who walk or obey orders, working overtime. Many are zombies in your daily routine, an irony of the world in which we live.
I hope you have no trouble understanding my English, haha I guess maybe some errors in grammar, but still, thanks for reading.
