Title: The serpent and the rainbow /
Authors: Davis, Wade.
Date: 1985
Publisher: Simon and Schuster,
Physical description: 297 pages ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: B
Abstract: A Harvard scientist's astonishing journey into the secret societies of Haitian voodoo, zombis, and magic.
Contents: pt. 1. The poison. The jaguar -- "The frontier of death" -- The Calabar hypothesis -- White darkness and the living dead -- A lesson in history -- Everything is poison, nothing is poison -- pt. 2. Interlude at Harvard. Columns on a blackboard -- Voodoo death -- pt. 3. The secret societies. In summer the pilgrims walk -- The serpent and the rainbow -- Tell my horse -- Dancing in the lion's jaw -- Sweet as honey, bitter as bile -- Epilogue.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Bizango (Cult); Datura stramonium.; Davis, Wade.; Haiti--Description and travel.; Haiti--Religious life and customs.; Haiti--Social life and customs.; Pharmacopoeias--Haiti.; Tetrodotoxin--Physiological effect.; Zombiism--Haiti.