Voodoo believers walk during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal ...
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Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel -- 1: Vodun and social transformation in the African diasporic experience: the concept of personhood in Haitian Vodun ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Bearing rum, flowers and candles, thousands of voodoo followers flocked to Haiti's largest cemetery on Wednesday to rouse sacred spirits and remember lost relatives in raucous ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The earthquake that shattered Haiti has unleashed fears that child-eating spirits, mythological figures entrenched in Haitian culture, are prowling homeless camps in search ...
1. Introduction -- 2. Vodun as a Religious System and Way of Life -- 3. The Music of the Rada Rite -- 4. Drums, Drummers, and Oungenikon in Haitian Rada -- 5. The Music of the Rada Battery -- 6. The ...
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Protestants say the voodoo spirit does not embody good virtues, while Catholicism, which ...