Bokor

It goes a little something like this: A bokor is a voodoo sorcerer in Haiti, and it is said that he has the power to turn people into zombies essentially by sucking out a victim's soul and trapping it in a bottle. ❋ Dustin Rowles (2010)

Haitian zombies were once normal people, but underwent zombification by a "bokor" through spell or potion, and are afterwards used as slaves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And now, in the sewer of the French Quarter, she had placed her trust in these two members of the Circuit, previously just names in a chat room: the dusky-hued White Witch named Mikhu, and Theo, a hot voodoo bokor—practitioner—who both lived in New Orleans and confirmed that a new vampire doyenne—queen—was in town. ❋ Nancy Holder (2010)

Skye had conjured the original glamour spell on herself, and the witch and the bokor had given it a boost. ❋ Nancy Holder (2010)

He was dressed as a voodoo bokor, with a bone necklace and a round, feathered cap. ❋ Nancy Holder (2010)

The dancers carry a bokor, an engraved bowl made from silver or aluminium, laden with flowers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The most maleficent of sorcerers, a bokor, can supposedly manipulate the forces of darkness—even Satan himself—to command the dead to inflict terrifying punishment on a victim. ❋ Susie Scott Krabacher (2007)

I would have thought that a model of demonic possession might have been more compatible with his world-view: the image of a staggering, nearly zombie-like body given hellish life by a loa under the direction, perhaps, of a bokor called the See-el-see rather appeals to me. ❋ Unknown (2005)

To create a zombi, the bokor must capture the ti bon ange of the intended victim, a magical act that may be accomplished in a variety of ways. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

This was his soul, he claimed, ready to travel on a journey that would be curtailed by the arrival of the bokor and his assistants. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

The widespread belief in the reality of zombis in Haiti, however, is based on those cases in which the victim receives the correct dose of the poison, wakes up in the coffin, and is taken from the grave by the bokor. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

“I know a bokor in Saint Marc,” he replied, “who supplied me with a vial of the poison, a white powder.” ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

First, many informants insisted that the actual raising of a zombi depended solely on the magical power of the bokor. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

According to Marcel, and many other houngan I later asked, if a bokor cuts a lime transversely while it is still on the tree, the half that remains on the limb overnight becomes the most virulent of poisons. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

It was strictly the power of the bokor that revived the dormant zombi, he claimed. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

BOKOR Although the word is derived from the Fon word bokono, or priest, in Haiti the bokor has come to represent the one who practices sorcery and black magic as a profession. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

The magical skill of the bokor guarantees that only the victim will suffer. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)