The Persistence of Folk Belief: Some Notes on Cannibalism & Zombis in Haiti, by Erika Bourguignon, 1959
(www.jstor.org)https://www.jstor.org/stable/538386For many years the literature on Haiti has been replete with references to Vudu, cannibalism, the appearance of zombis, and the transformation of humans into animals.While some authors attempted to prove the existence of these phenomena, many others have attempted to show all these various accounts to be false and baseless slander. Yet at the center of this polemic one point of substantial agreement seems to exist: it appears quite certain that the great majority of the Haitian population firmly believes in the power of Vudu. Jstor. Rising Cases of Cannibalism in Haiti .. nothing much has changed it seems.
