From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Tue Dec 15 1998 - 22:33:26 MST
Jetzen wrote: The lead character, Madman, is named Frank Einstein.
> He knows he died and was brought back to life by another character...
is anyone familiar with the story called the serpent and the rainbow?
its about a harvard ethnobotanist by the name of wade davis who
goes to haiti to investigate zombies. according to his account, he
discovered there a universal belief in zombies, and even
had one pointed out to him, a zombie who lived in the local cemetery.
turns out the local witchdoctor figured out a way to distill a poison
that produces deathlike symptoms. the family assumes the victim
is dead, and buries him. the witchdoctor comes that night, digs
him up and administers the antidote, thereby reviving him. both
the victim and everyone else then believes the witchdoctor
brought him back from the dead. i dont know how much of
the book is fiction and how much non... spike
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