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Petit Albert, Le , 251

Petrarch, 25

Petro, 49

physostigmine, 40, 42, 110

phytochemical plants, 87–88

Pierre, Marcel, 145–48, 162, 163, 217, 218, 238, 240–41, 250

zombi poison prepared by, 44, 52, 53–56, 60, 87–101, 112

pierre tonnerre, 94, 147

Plaine du Nord, Haiti, 266–67

plantations, 67, 68, 69, 190, 201, 205

Pliny the Elder, 25

“pointing of the bone,” 137, 168

pois gratter, 95, 110, 163

poison, see zombi poison

poison ivy, 163

poison ordeal, 195–96

polychaete worms, 95, 112, 116

pomme cajou, 163

Poro society, 195

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 45

Postilion , 119, 125

poteau mitan, 47, 49, 180, 220, 226, 229, 230, 245, 248

potions, magic, 55, 83–84

Price-Mars, Jean, 178

Prix Dusgate, 133

prostitution, 38, 98–99

“psychic driving” experiments, 59

psychopharmacology, 22

psychotic delirium, 166

puffer fish, 95, 116–26, 130, 163–64, 167

pulmonary edema, 60–61, 108, 111, 116, 122, 123

putrefaction, 133

pwin, 260

“queens,” 155, 236

Rada, 49

rage, sham, 116

Raiders of the Lost Ark , 224

Rainbow (Ayida Wedo), 176–77

Rara, 102–3, 258

rat experiments, 128

reine dirageur, 236

René, 76–77

research, on secret societies, 206–15

reserpine, 22

respiration, absence of, 25–26, 134

respiratory problems, 56, 60–61, 108, 111, 116, 121, 122, 123, 125

Retiré Bon Ange, 164

rhesus monkeys, experiments with, 30, 128

rigor mortis, 134

Rochambeau, 66

Roizin, Leon, 126–29

Romaine La Prophétesse, 201, 202, 247

sabbat, 38

Saint Anne, festival of, 159–61, 162

St. Constantine, 51

Saint Domingue, see Haiti, French colonization of

St. John, Spenser, 208

Saint-Mery, Moreau de, 196

Saint Michel de l’Attalaye Hospital, 27–28, 80

Salisbury, Richard, 161

San Poel, 211

San Salvador, 44–45

São Paulo, Brazil, 51

Saponins, 111

sashimi, 120

Saut d’Eau, Haiti, 170–71, 180, 266

Savanne Carée, 79

schizophrenia, 59, 61, 135

Schultes, Richard Evans, 16–17, 21–22, 24, 38, 40, 109, 110, 115, 117, 129

Schwartz, Reverend, 132

Albert Schweitzer Hospital, 28, 60, 140

scopolamine, 166

séances, 230, 254, 263

sea toad, 84, 95, 112–16, 117, 162, 163, 164, 167

sea worms, 95, 108

seconde, 48

secret societies:

beliefs of, 240–63

ceremonies of, 216–39, 242–50

examples of, 206–7

function of, 41–43, 85, 101–4, 147, 211–12, 213

geographic location of, 169

initiation to, 194, 240–63

as malevolent organizations, 208–211, 220–21, 223, 235

Maroons as forerunners of, 190–206, 212, 213, 250

as “masters of the land,” 213, 223

officers of, 229, 231

origins of, 190–206

paramilitary, 101–4

political influence of, 101–4, 206, 233–39, 254–57

role of women in, 155, 226, 228, 236

secrecy of, 247, 248–49, 264–66

“selling someone to,” 223, 237–39, 252–53

songs of, 222, 229, 230–32, 249

studies of, 206–15

in West Africa, 41–43, 195–96, 207, 212, 213, 223

zombi poison used by, 154, 188, 195–96, 213, 214, 215, 223

sections rurales, 233–35

Sect Rouge, 210

sekey madoulè, 211

Senegalese, 40–41

sentinelle, 236, 245

Serpent (Damballah), 177, 183, 266

shamans, 178–79

Shango, 94

Shanpwel, see secret societies

sharecroppers, 67

sharo contest, 40

Sheffield case, 25

shellfish poisoning, 165

shock, 137

Shuar Indians, 39

Shun Nung, 118

Sierra Leone, 40, 41

Simbi, 152

Simon, Hélène, 78, 156, 218–19

Simon, Herard, 155, 157–59, 162, 164, 165, 167–69, 180, 185, 215, 218–21, 224–28, 237, 253, 257, 264–65

sisal whips, 74, 244–45

Slave Coast, 41

slaves:

abuse of, 190–91

emancipation of, 204–5, 210

freed, 196, 206, 212

revolts of, 40–43, 65–67, 69–70, 189–206, 247–48, 250

runaway, 190

trade of, 196

zombis as, 28, 62, 80, 139

snakeroot, 22

snakes, 162

Snow, Sebastian, 17–20

Sobo, 94, 228

songs, of secret societies, 222, 229, 230–32, 249

sorcerers, 139, 185, 187, 195, 196, 251

spells, magic, 100, 137, 138, 139

Sphoeroides lobatus , 125

spirits, see loas

“star of destiny,” 181

Strophantus kombe , 113

Sui Dynasty, 118

suspended animation, 26, 134

sympathetic adrenal system, 137

taboos, social, 136–38

talc, colored, 152

tali, 196

Tani, I., 125

tarantulas, 162, 163

tcha-tcha, 95, 111, 163, 164

Tell My Horse (Hurston), 214

tetrodotoxin, 117, 118, 122–26, 130, 140, 164, 165–66 , 167, 187

thunderstone, 94, 147

ti bon ange, 181–83, 184, 185–86, 187, 223, 237

Ti Femme:

“death” of, 77

personality of, 76, 78, 79, 156, 188

as zombi, 27, 61, 62–63, 73, 75–79, 84, 213

ti guinin, 72

tingling sensations, 165

toads, 59, 84, 95, 108, 112–16 see also sea toad

toadstools, 112

Togo, 40

Tombé Levé, 164

tonnelle, 225–26

Ton Ton Macoute, 87, 157, 255–56 , 257

Toussaint L’Ouverture, 67–68, 75, 204, 205, 206

Townsend, Colonel, 134

toxins, 112–16

trance, 134, 135

tranquilizers, 22, 129

trauma, 137

tree datura, 57

tree frogs, 163, 167

“tree of the evil eagle,” 37

tremblador, 163

truth serums, 111

Tsimshian Indians, 88

tuberculosis, 149

Tué, 164

uremia, 61, 108, 122

Vedic medicine, 22

venom, 113–14

vermifuge, 111

vévé, 47

Ville Bonheur, Haiti, 170–71, 176

Vinbrindingue, 210, 211

vision quest, 97–98

vision vine, 17

vodoun:

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

Catholicism vs., 72–73, 85, 170–171, 205, 256

ceremonies of, 47–51, 182, 201, 228–29

chants of, 151, 152

as cult, 26, 72

as democratic faith, 73

initiation to, 98

orthography of, 11–12

pantheon of, 48

pilgrimage sites of, 170–71, 180, 266

psychological interpretation of, 177–80

scientific thinking vs., 173–75

sensationalist accounts of, 208–9

as system of belief, 170–88

“voodoo” vs., 11–12

see also secret societies

Volunteers for the National Security (VNS), 87, 157, 255–56, 257

“voodoo death,” 136–42, 168, 180

Wasp’s Gate, 54

weight loss, 61, 108, 122

Weil, Andrew, 88–89

Wété Mo Nan Dlo, 182

whips, sisal, 74, 244–45

white frog, 153

witch doctors, 40, 136

witches, 38

wysoccan, 39

Yaqui Indians, 38, 88–89

yellow fever, 66

Zangbeto, 206

z’étoile, 186

Zobop, 211

zombi astral, 159, 167, 186

zombi cadavre, 168–69, 186, 187

zombification:

as criminal activity, 60, 62, 187–188, 212–13

fugu poisoning vs., 120–24, 125, 126

method of, 15–104, 211

as passage rite, 39

as social process, 61–62, 212–13

symptoms of, 62, 63, 110–11, 121–24

tetrodotoxication vs., 117, 118, 122–26, 130, 140, 164, 165–66, 167, 187

zombi poison:

antidote for, 32, 40, 99–101, 129–130, 148, 154, 162, 164–65

application of, 35, 59–60, 83, 84, 126, 148, 153–54, 167, 180, 187, 232, 237–39