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THE HAITI LEGEND REVISITED: EARTHQUAKE, DEVIL’S PACT, POLONE NWA, HOAX, AND ONLINE COMMENTS
Violetta KRAWCZYK-WASILEWSKA1
Global Problems – Some Narratives
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (70-71) 2011, Publication date: 17 October 2011
Abstract The article deals with post-earthquake e-folklore of a global character. The author’s study is mainly based on Internet sources. After the catastrophe, there remained an old legend about a Haitian – Satanic pact and "God’s wrath" (cited by a CBN televangelist) on the one hand. On the other hand, the Polish media focused on the black progeny of Poles from the Haitian village Cazale, who have awaited help from the old country for 200 years. The author also touches upon the Ghanaian earthquake hoax as an immediate reaction on the Haiti disaster and the power of e-folk
Zakład Etnologii i Folklorystyki, Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej, Wydział Filozoficzno-Historyczny Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
E-mail: wasil@uni.lodz.pl