Books
March, 1986
"My Assignment...was to travel to Haiti, find the voodoo sorcerers responsible and obtain samples of the poison and antidote, observing their preparation and if possible documenting their use." So writes Wade Davis in The Serpent and the Rainbow (Simon & Schuster), and his mission was mostly accomplished. Davis is a Harvard ethnobotanist who explored the world of Haitian voodoo, participated in its ceremonies, sought the secrets of zombification (putting people into a deathlike trance...
