death-like-paralytic-induction

Amadan · salience 0.9

“What the Amadan does is touch, and the touch is described as producing lasting harm: paralysis, physical deformity, palsy, or outright death, with no cure available through ordinary means.”

Zombi · salience 0.5

“Wade Davis's controversial ethnobotanical research in the 1980s proposed that a powder used in this process could include pufferfish-derived tetrodotoxin, capable of inducing a death-like paralytic state, though this account has been extensively debated and its details are far from settled.”