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Erié, Robert, 232–33, 235, 250, 258

Erzulie Dantor, 227

Erzulie Freda, 171, 172, 179

esprit, 182

evil, good vs., 94, 101, 187–88

evil eye, 137

Fabing, Howard, 115–16

fainting spells, 135

faith healing, 137

fakirs, 29

fear, as cause of physiological changes, 137–38

Felix-Mentor, Felicia, 213–15

firewalkers, 49–51

Fleming, Ian, 117

floating sensation, 81, 121, 141–42

formic acid, 163

fou-fou, 117

foxglove, 114

François, Jean, 202, 204, 205, 206

French Revolution, 65

Freudian psychiatry, 22

frogs, 152, 153, 163, 167

From Russia with Love (Fleming), 117

fugu, 120–24, 130

Fukada, T., 125

Fulani tribe, 40

fwet kash, 229

gall bladders, ground, 152

Gitksan Indians, 98

“giving up/given up” complex, 137

Glycas, Nicephorus, 132

goby fish, 165

Gonaives, Haiti, 155–56

govi, 182, 183

Grans Bwa, 57, 147, 228

Great Herbals , 118

Griots, Les, 256

gros bon ange, 181, 186

guaiac, 100

Guede, 147, 172

Guinée, 67, 72, 190, 215, 227, 244, 247

gunpowder, 152

Haiti:

African influences in, 70, 71–72, 194, 195–96, 201, 207, 219, 256

agrarian economy of, 67–70

appearance vs. reality in, 85, 87, 217

Catholicism as official religion of, 70–71, 85

civil government of, 233–35, 255–257

French colonization of, 44–45, 65–68, 102, 188, 189–206, 210, 212, 232

history of, 40–45, 65–72

international relations of, 70–71

legal system of, 28, 60, 158

peasant culture of, 71–73

rural vs. urban society in, 51–52, 71–72

U.S. occupation of, 102, 171, 208–9, 256

vodoun as basis of society in, 12, 72–73, 110, 183–84, 212

hallucinogens, 17, 88, 114, 115–16

Halstead, B. W., 122

handshakes, secret, 194, 195, 211

Han Dynasty, 118

Hausa tribe, 40

healing trees, 151

health, as spiritual equilibrium, 183–84

heartbeat, 26, 134

Hector Victor, 260–61

henbane, 38

herbals, 113, 118–19

Herskovits, Melville, 206

hex, 136

hibernation, 31, 129, 135

Holmstedt, Bo, 109–12

hoodoo, 207, 208

Hotel Ollofson, 46, 50

hounfour:

as center of healing, 149, 184

religious function of, 47, 53, 73, 74

as social center, 212

houngan macoute, 87

houngan nieg, 241

houngans:

bokors vs., 47, 55, 83, 96–97, 140

as healers, 147, 183–84

religious role of, 44, 48, 52, 56, 72–75, 87, 96, 148, 176, 182, 183–84

social role of, 212, 235, 238, 256

hounsis, 47, 48, 49–50, 53

hounsis canzo, 98

huaca, 39

Hurston, Zora Neale, 206–11, 212, 213–15

Hyacinthe, 201, 247

hypertension, 61, 108, 114, 116, 122, 125

hypnosis, 63, 135

hypotension, 26, 123

hypothermia, 61, 108, 122, 123

ibok usiak owo, 111

Ibo tribe, 41

ichthyotoxicology, 117

Illeus, Francina, see Ti Femme

Illeus, Mercilia, 77–78

illness, psychological factors in, 137–38

immortality, spiritual, 184–85

Invisibles, Les, 182

Isabella, Queen of Spain, 44

Isnard, 221–24, 238, 241–44, 249

itching pea, 95, 110, 163

Japanese cuisine, 120–24

Jean, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99

Jivaro Indians, 39

Josef Jean, 80

Joseph, Natagette, 27

Josephine, 248, 249, 257–58

Kaempfer, Engelbert, 120

Karnice-Karnicki, Count, 131–32, 134, 135

Kline, Nathan S., 22, 23–32, 34–35, 39, 40, 44, 58, 60, 99, 101, 107, 109–12, 117, 126, 129, 148, 157, 179, 180, 188, 216, 217

Knab, Timothy, 115

knucklebones, 136

LaBonté, 149, 151, 152, 168, 169, 186

Laguerre, Michel, 211–13, 215, 250

lakous, 72, 139, 234

land disputes, 28, 158, 253–54

Leclerc, Charles, 66, 68, 205, 206

Legba, 172, 176, 179, 228

Lehman, Heinz, 23–32, 34–35, 39, 117, 129, 180, 216

Leidenfrost point, 51

lemons, 162

Leophin, Jean-Jacques, 250–55, 256, 259, 264

lepers, 160

Levé, 164

Liberia, 70

Limbé, Haiti, 189, 190, 202

limes, 101

Linnaeus, Carolus, 37

“living dead,” zombis as, 26–27, 29, 58–59, 131–42

lizards, 95, 108, 116

loas:

as expressions of God, 171–72

possession by, 47, 48, 50, 56, 98, 152, 169, 171–72, 177–79, 180–181, 182, 183, 201–2, 265, 266

worship of, 180–81

see also individual loas

Loco, 172

Lonchocarpus capassa , 40

London Echo , 132

Louisiana Purchase, 65

loup garou (werewolf), 79, 224

LSD, 59

Luisena Indians, 39

Lytton, Edward, 133

Macandal, François, 189–90, 196–200, 201, 247

Macaya, 201

McGill University, 58, 59, 61

madoulè, 262

maikua, 39

Makala nations, 251

maman, 48

maman guêpes, 163

mambos, 47, 48, 49, 50, 147, 148–49, 176

Mandelslo, Johann Albert de, 38

Mandingue tribe, 196

mandrakes, 38

marcehaussée, 193

Marie, 92

Maroons:

as forerunners of secret societies, 190–206, 212, 213, 250

poison used by, 196–201

Martineau, Harriet, 133

Mary, Virgin, 170–71

mashasha, 163

Mass of the Invalides, 160

Matilde, 92, 93

Mayan iconography, 114

Maze, Dr., 133

medicine:

Chinese, 113–14, 118–19

Egyptian, 118

herbal, 17, 21, 127

tribal, 35–37

Vedic, 22

see also drugs

medicine men, 136

Medor, 201

mental illness, drug treatment for, 22, 59, 63

Merrick, David, 216, 217

metabolic rate, lowering of, 29, 108, 116, 129, 140, 187

Métraux, Alfred, 214

millipeds, 162

mind/body interaction, 179

Mucuna , 95

mulattos, 71, 156, 203–4, 206

Murray, Gerry, 234

muscle relaxants, 21, 113

Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard), 108

mushrooms, hallucinogenic, 130

n’âme, 181, 186

nangarri, 136

Napoléon, 166–67

Napoleon Bonaparte, 65–66, 67, 205

Napoleonic code, 28, 71

Narcisse, Angelina, 28, 82–83, 85

Narcisse, Clairvius:

“death” of, 27–28, 30, 60, 121, 139–42

death certificate of, 26

grave of, 81

illness of, 44, 57, 60–61, 108, 111, 121–22, 126, 140

interviews with, 62, 80

medical dossier of, 60–61

physical appearance of, 62

psychological state of, 130, 137–42

“resurrection” of, 39, 99, 121

tribunal for, 81, 82, 83, 85, 253

unpopularity of, 188, 253–54

as zombi, 26–27, 28–29, 33, 73, 79–85, 157–58, 213, 223, 254

Narcisse, Magrim, 82

Narcisse, Marie Claire, 28, 29

NASA, 31

nausea, 108, 122, 123, 165

NDE (near-death experience), 140–42

Nég Guinée, 244

neurotoxins, 117, 118

New York State Psychiatric Institute, 126–27

ngmoo, 165

Nicephorus Glycas, 132

nicotine, 166

Obin, 150, 152, 154, 155, 168, 186

obong, 41, 42

O’Connell, Daniel, 133

Ogoun, 160–61, 172, 201–2, 241, 266

Old Calabar, 111

“Order and Respect of the Night,” 227, 228, 236

Oris, 76–77, 78, 79

ouabain, 113

oxygen deprivation, 29

Padrejean, 200

Pan-American Highway, 19, 20–21

paralysis, 117, 118, 122, 123, 165

paresthesia, 108, 116

“participant observation,” 208

passports, 210, 211

passwords, 194–96, 209, 211

peasantry, 68–70

Pedro, 247

Pentsao Chin , 118

Pentsao Kang Mu , 113, 118–19