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Due to the influx of American Protestants in Haiti during the 1990s, some neo-evangelical Christians recontextualized the events at Bois Caïman as a Haitian "blood pact with Satan" [10] They were influenced by "spiritual warfare" theology and concerned that the Aristide government had made efforts to incorporate the Vodou sector more fully ...
Folklore of the southern United States identifies a crossroads or graveyard as the site of a pact with the Devil, [26] which music writer Elijah Wald identifies as a likely source of the myth. [27] Another source may be Delta bluesman Tommy Johnson (no relation to Robert), who promoted himself as having made a deal with the Devil. [26] Wald writes:
La Chasse-galerie by Henri Julien, 1906, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. La Chasse-galerie, also known as "The Bewitched Canoe" or "The Flying Canoe", is a popular French-Canadian tale of lumberjacks from camps working around the Gatineau River who make a deal with the devil, a variant of the Wild Hunt.
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In about 1767, Dutty Boukman was born in the region of Senegambia (present-day Senegal and Gambia), where he was a Muslim cleric.He was captured in Senegambia, and transported as a slave to the Caribbean, first to the island of Jamaica, then Saint-Domingue, modern-day Haiti, where he reverted to his indigenous religion and became a Haitian Vodou houngan priest. [1]
The rising West Coast rapper was stabbed to death backstage at hip-hop festival Once Upon a Time in L.A. Witnessing and writing about the slaying, journalist Jeff Weiss reckons with complex ...
Right: The Devil reappears a year later and forces Haizmann to sign another pact with his own blood. Middle: The Virgin Mary makes the Devil to return the second pact during an exorcism . Johann Christoph Haizmann (1651/52 – 14 March 1700) was a Bavarian -born Austrian painter who is known for his autobiographically depicted demonical neurosis .
Answers are varied but even in a seemingly innocuous question, Radio Yerevan will generally find a risqué answer with an either political or sexual subtext. [1] For a political example, Radio Yerevan defined a string quartet as the "Moscow's symphonic orchestra as it returns from a concert tour abroad", a snide remark referring to highly ...