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The Serpent and the Rainbow (book)
''The Serpent and the Rainbow'' is a 1985 book by ethnobotanist and researcher Wade Davis. He investigated Haitian Vodou and the process of making zombies. He studied ethnobotanical poisons, discovering their use in a reported case of a contemporary zombie, Clairvius Narcisse.
==Overview==
The book presents the case of Clairvius Narcisse, a man who had been a zombie for two years, as showing that the zombification process was more likely the result of a complex interaction of tetrodotoxin, a powerful hallucinogenic plant called ''Datura'', and cultural forces and beliefs.〔Guerico, Gino Del (1986) "The Secrets of Haiti's Living Dead", ''Harvard Magazine'' (Jan/Feb) 31-37. Reprinted in ''Anthropology Annual Editions'' 1987/88 188-191, note: this article has no citations to back up its claims.〕
According to the book, the assortment of ingredients in Haitian zombie powder include puffer fish, matter from a corpse (specifically to Davis' adventure in Haiti, the bokor, a Haitian shaman, crushed the skull of a deceased infant that had been dead for a month or two, and added it to the poison), freshly killed blue lizards, a large dried toad (''Bufo marinus'') with a dried sea worm wrapped around it (prepared beforehand), "tcha-tcha" (''Albizzia''), and "itching pea" (''pois grater'', a species of ''Mucuna'').
The book inspired the 1988 horror film, ''The Serpent and the Rainbow''.
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