Zora and the Zombies

Baron Wallin

In 1936, American anthropologist, and folklorist, Zora Neale Hurston, traveled to Haiti in order to investigate tales passed on to her by American Marines of voodoo practitioners creating undead, zombie slaves. They recalled tales from the 1915 U.S. invasion of Haiti of Marine raiding parties on voodoo rituals, their destruction of ritualistic artifacts, and the horrifying appearance of what they believed to be resurrected corpses who writhed in tranced anguish. She was amazed at the ease locals discussed the people who fell between the living and the dead. The zombies were spoken of not in darkened corners but, out in full view without fear of ridicule. Hurston, found her way into a circle of voodoo practitioners, and eventually was introduced to the frightening spectacle that was a woman named Felicia Felix-Mentor. Mentor, was a milky eyed, sporadic, shell of a once prominent woman who was pronounced dead thirty years earlier. Hurston, was told by local doctors that Mentor was most likely the victim of a vengeful ‘bocor’ or voodoo necromancer, who fed her poison which ate her brain up. Then came to retrieve her after her funeral. Hurston, soon fell ill herself. She began fearing that she had dug too deep, and was possibly being targeted by a bocor who had designs on turning her zombie next. She hastily made her way home to the U.S. and concluded “The key to understanding zombies, lay not in finding a secret potion or in debunking another people’s mythology. It was actually believing in them.”

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