The Serpent and the Rainbow · A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey Into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic
- Authors
- Davis, Wade
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster (NYC)
- Tags
- science , religion , anthropology , horror , sociology , general , social science , history , travel
- ISBN
- 9780671502478
- Date
- 1985-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.39 MB
- Lang
- en
s/t: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Society of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis Magic
A Note on Orthography
1 The poison
The jaguar
"The frontier of death"
The Calabar hypothesis
White darkness the living dead
A lesson in history
Everything is poison, nothing is poison
2 Interlude at Harvard
Columns on a blackboard
Voodoo death
3 The secret societies
In summer the pilgrims walk
The serpent the rainbow
Tell my horse
Dancing in the lion's jaw
Sweet as honey, bitter as bile
Epilogue
Glossary
Annotated Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index