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Animal sacrifices are often favored at annual feasts that an oungan or manbo organizes for their congregation. [177] Species used for sacrifice include chickens, goats, and bulls, with pigs often favored for Petwo lwa. [327] The animal may be washed, dressed in the color of the specific lwa, and marked with food or water. [328]
Species used for sacrifice include chickens, goats, and bulls, with pigs often favored for petwo lwa. [55] The animal may be washed, dressed in the color of the specific lwa, and marked with food or water. [60] Often, the animal's throat will be cut and the blood collected in a calabash. [61]
Oungan (also written as houngan) is the term for a male priest in Haitian Vodou (a female priest is known as a mambo). [1] The term is derived from Gbe languages (Fon, Ewe, Adja, Phla, Gen, Maxi and Gun).
Maman Brigitte protects graves in Haitian cemeteries that are marked by the cross of Baron Samedi. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Graves that are protected by Brigitte are marked by a mound of stones. [ 3 ] In Vodou practice, the first burials serve as offerings to either Baron Samedi or Maman Brigitte depending on the gender of the person being laid to rest.
A Haitian Vodou baptism ceremony on Dania Beach. Offerings at a Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, altar in Little Havana. A Muslim man praying inside Miami’s oldest mosque.
A manbo (also written as mambo) is a priestess (as opposed to a oungan, a male priest) in the Haitian Vodou religion. [1] [2] Haitian Vodou's conceptions of priesthood stem from the religious traditions of enslaved people from Dahomey, in what is today Benin. [3] For instance, the term manbo derives from the Fon word nanbo ("mother of magic").
Haitian mythology consists of many folklore stories from different time periods, involving sacred dance and deities, all the way to Vodou.Haitian Vodou is a syncretic mixture of Roman Catholic rituals developed during the French colonial period, based on traditional African beliefs, with roots in Dahomey, Kongo and Yoruba traditions, and folkloric influence from the indigenous Taino peoples of ...
The Canton woman accused of killing and eating a cat has no known connection to Haiti or any other foreign country. Allexis T. Ferrell is charged with cruelty to companion animals, a fifth-degree ...