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Many Vodouists believe that a practitioner's spirit dwells in the land of Ginen, located at the bottom of a lake or river, for a year and a day. [432] A year and a day after death, the wete mò nan dlo ("extracting the dead from the waters of the abyss") ritual may take place, in which the deceased's gwo bonnanj is reclaimed from the realm of ...
Baron Samedi appears as a playable character in the video board game Nightmare (1991), and hosts the game's first expansion (where he is played by Wenanty Nosul). [ 17 ] Baron Saturday, who represents Baron Samedi, appears in the album S.F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things , where he takes the titular character on a trip through the Underworld and ...
In Haitian folklore, a zombie (Haitian French: zombi, Haitian Creole: zonbi) is an animated corpse raised by magical means, such as witchcraft. [14] The concept has been popularly associated with the religion of voodoo, but it plays no part in that faith's formal practices.
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The historiography of Haitian cinema is very limited. It consists only one double issue of the journal of the French Institute of Haiti Conjonction, released in 1983, devoted to film; a book by Arnold Antonin, published during the same year, entitled Matériel pour une préhistoire du cinéma haïtien ("Material for a prehistory of Haitian cinema"); and an article by the same author in the ...
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Mikaben’s wife, Vanessa Benjamin, holds their daughter 1-year-old Leïa Benjamin, next to his son Gabriel at a memorial service for Haitian singer Mikaben in Miramar on Sunday.
Maman Brigitte (English: Mother Brigitte) sometimes also written as Manman Brigitte and also known by Gran Brigitte, Grann Brigitte, Manman, Manman Brigit, and Maman Brijit is a death loa (or lwa) and the consort of Baron Samedi in Haitian Vodou. She drinks rum infused with hot peppers and is symbolized by a black rooster. [1]