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The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis, 1985 In 1982 ethnobotanist Wade Davis went on several trips to Haiti to discover the secrets of the “zombi poison” and learned about the Haitian and voudon cultures while he was there. … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, anthropology, death, dostoevsky, haiti, liminality, the folk, voudon, zora neale hurston
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