Meaning of zombie's cucumber | Babel Free

Definitions

Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), as used in Haiti.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

““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.””

“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.”

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