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  1. Corpse believed to be reanimated by a spirit and enslaved. The idea,
  2. widespread in Haiti, possibly arose from voodoo priests using the nerve
  3. poison tetrodotoxin (from the puffer fish) to produce a semblance of
  4. death from which the victim afterwards physically recovers. Those eating
  5. incorrectly prepared puffer fish in Japan have been similarly affected.
  6.