Zora Neale Hurston, escritora norteamericana, cuenta (en inglés) lo que vio en Haití sobre los zombis. Este video es de 1943 y la autora había viajado a Haití para investigar sobre el tema. Al final algo sobre zombis y unos datos de Zora Hurston…
… well, the zombies are supposed to be the living dead, people who died and are resurrected but without their souls and they can take orders and they´re supposed never to be tired…
… I do know that people have been resurrected in Haiti. I do not believe they were actually dead. It was suspended animation…
… People are not buried below ground there; they have the above ground vaults as they do in New Orleans…
… There have been proven cases where folks have been dead, folks thought they were done and months later somebody finds somewhere and some hidden place actually alive…
… It began to strike the dead body to wake him up at the same time holding his soul on his nose and he must answer because his soul is there…
… and when he answers they handcuff him so that he can´t resist and then they beat him and beat him and finally wake him up thoroughly and he´s carried in the center … and they must march him pass the house where he lived because if they don´t he will regain consciousness someday…
… and this particular zombie, whom I photographed, I think I’m the first person on earth and probably the last to be able to photograph a zombie, she had died in 1907 and nobody saw her anymore until 1937 when she was found naked on a road but she remembered a little…
… The question is whether they can raise people from dead. They have brought drugs from Africa which the so called civilized world does not know about but they will find out perhaps eventually and which produce certain effects…
Para saber
Zombie: el término viene del folklore de Haití, donde un zombi es un cuerpo muerto reanimado a través de diversos métodos, especialmente magia. La palabra inglesa Zombiees registrada por primera vez en 1819 en una historia de Brasil por el poeta Robert Southey, en la forma de Zombi. El diccionario Oxford traza el origen de la palabra al oeste de África. Uno de los primeros libros en exponer el concepto de vudú zombi a la cultura occidental fue The Magic Island de W.B. Seabrook en 1929.
Zora Neale Hurston (1891 – 1960) was an African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist known for her contributions to African-American literature, her portrayal of racial struggles in the American South, and works documenting her research on Haitian voodoo. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, and moved to Eatonville, Florida, with her family in 1894. Eatonville would become the setting for many of her stories and is now the site of the Zora! Festival, held each year in Hurston'shonor. In her early career, Hurston conducted anthropological and ethnographic research while attending Barnard College. While in New York she became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Her short satires, drawing from the African-American experience and racial division, were published in anthologies such as The New Negro and Fire! After moving back to Florida, Hurstonpublished her literary anthropology on African-American folklore in North Florida, Mules and Men (1935) and her first three novels: Jonah's Gourd Vine(1934); Their Eyes Were Watching God(1937); and Moses, Man of the Mountain(1939). Also published during this time was Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938), documenting her research on rituals in Jamaica and Haiti.
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