February 23, 2010
Soulouquerie and "Haiti's Bad Press" (1)
With the publishing of "The Serpent and the Rainbow" in 1985 (2), Wade Davis soared onto best-seller lists in Amrica and around the world, gaining fame and recognition as the entrepreneurial Harvard anthropologist who journeyed into the heart of Voodoo-land (Haiti) and returned home with what can be called the Holy Grail of Haitian witchcraft, namely, the highly-kept secret recipe for bringing a seemingly dead person back to life, creating what is generally known as a zombie. Since then, Davis has remained in the public eye as the preeminent authority on the Haitian zombie. But, despite all the accolades generated by that publication, more than anything else, Davis's investigation should be remembered as an unfortunate contribution to Haiti's bad press. more...
December 01, 2009
What Davis Actually Said About the Haitian Zombie Creation.
The following bracketed annotation paraphrases what Wikipedia stages as an introduction to the Haitian zombie. more...
November 04, 2009
Church or Voodoo!
Scientology under Attack.
Once upon a time during the Hellenistic period, a multi-talented genius, Daedalus by his Latin name, inventor of the Arts and many notable crafts, successfully transferred the human soul to mechanical devices or machines, realizing what had been man's pipe dream for thousands of years, namely, the idea that human beings could infuse a soul into inanimate objects and bring them to life. more...
