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The Serpent and the Rainbow 1985

Social life and customs, Description and travel, Zombiism, Bizango (Cult)

A Harvard scientist's astonishing journey into the secret societies of Haitian voodoo, zombis, and magic.

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Cool, plot-driven, classical in form and earnest.

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“MY FIRST MEETING with the man who would send me on my quest for the Haitian poison occurred on a damp miserable winter's day in late February 1974.”

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