Twenty priestesses, naked from the waist up, sang and danced before spraying the watching crowd with water "blessed" by the divinities. A dozen priests surrounded him as he made incantations, threw ...
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Benin showcases culture with Vodun Days
On the newly-renovated streets of Ouidah, thousands of Beninese and foreign tourists gathered this week to discover the rituals and deities bound up with voodoo, a popular animist tradition which has ...
Practitioners of Vodou (or voodoo) gathered in Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Prospect Park Saturday evening to celebrate the anniversary of Bwa Kayiman, a ceremony credited with launching Haiti’s 1791 slave revolt ...
(CBS/WCBS/AP) NEW YORK - A voodoo sex ritual caused a fatal apartment fire in Brookyln on Feb. 19, a city official said Friday. The blaze started when a woman visited a fourth-floor apartment in ...
COTONOU, BENIN (Reuters) - Hundreds of Beninois marked National Voodoo Day, celebrating the once-banned religion on Wednesday with a series of ceremonies across the country. Voodoo is an ancient ...
Verna Gillis audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Grabaciones sonoras de Verna Gillis, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to ...
Twenty priestesses, naked from the waist up, sang and danced before spraying the watching crowd with water "blessed" by the divinities. The purification ceremonies in Togo are intended to promote ...
Verna Gillis audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Grabaciones sonoras de Verna Gillis, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to ...
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