zombie's cucumber

alternative zombi's cucumber

1. uncountableJimsonweed (Datura stramonium), as used in Haiti.

   “Your soul will answer, you see. And they'll feed you the zombie's cucumber. You ain't got no choice but to eat it.”

   2013, Arielle Crowell, Deadly Magnolia, page 210

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   After the baptism, or sometimes the next day, he or she is made to eat a paste containing a strong dose of a potent psychoactive drug, the zombi's cucumber, which brings on a state of disorientation and amnesia.

   1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 187

   It seemed to him that he was […] surrendering all agency and becoming hers to command, as if she were a Haitian bokor and he at lunch at Bergdorf Goodman had been administered the so-called zombie's cucumber which confused his thought processes and made him her slave for life.

   2017, Salman Rushdie, The Golden House, Jonathan Cape, published 2017, page 180