yeah i think i wrote a paper about that BS in high school

It is BS IMO.... the process is called like "zombification"... what they do is supposedly put some sort of powder (made from puffer fish toxins) it puts the body in a wierd trance ... etc and supposedly they control the body using "magic"...

There was a pretty famous one about some guy named like Clairivus Narsicuss or something I can't remember this was a long time ago. Who was on like the history channel, they confirmed his death certificate and supposedly while they interviewed him he had no pulse. I figured if this claim was true, it'd be alllll over the news, and waaay better sourced, but its hard to even find sources on it.

But yeah they tried to completely debunk the idea... and came back instead of saying that it was impossible, saying it was highly unlikely that someone could refine the puffer fish and all the random ingredients into a non-lethal "medicine" to zombify or enslave someone. Supposedly people got this sh!t done to them as a punishment for a crime, or kidnapped to work on a plantation as a zombie slave. They pretty much said its POSSIBLE, but HIGHLY unlikely.

i'm going to try to dig up some links

But a History teacher in HS also talked about it and some other sh!t- was convinced it was either true or at least possible... which got me semi-interested in it.