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Wade Davis and the Cultural Matrix

Wade Davis was an ethnobotanist who came to prominence in the 80s after writing a book called The Serpent and the Rainbow. He proposed this pretty outrageous idea that the idea of zombies in Haiti was not only real, but there really was a zombification. It's such an interesting idea, and it hadn't been adequately tested. I wanted to go back and did in 2009 to collect samples just to see if anyone else could find further evidence for what he said.

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