The British Journal of Psychiatry · 1985 · 30 citations · 0 references
MedicineMaternal HealthObstetricsReproductive HealthPostpartum AssessmentPostpartum ComplicationsTraumatic Childbirth
used by the Haitian Voudoun priests (bokors or hungans) revealed known toxins capable of inducing physical and psychological states similar to those characterised in Haiti as zombification, i.e. being raised in a comatose trance from the grave and forced to toil as a slave.