Vodoun

I use the term vodoun because it seems to me to be phonetically the most accurate. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

Tabou Combo's music is aimed squarely at the dance floor -- mixing Haitian meringue, rara vodoun percussion with kompa and elements of Brazilian music, soukous and funk. ❋ Jim Luce (2011)

I was raised in a very un-American household listening to Haitian kompas and vodoun music when my mom was home, and straight up Italian opera when my dad was. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Although historians are in disagreement about whether or not the legenday Bois Caiman vodoun ceremony is fact or myth, or even if it was the pivotal moment that led to the Haitian slave uprising, I do know the moment is annually celebrated on the island as the beginning of revolution. ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2008)

You can achieve those “fractal patterns” through deep meditation or any variety of ecstatic religious experiences/practices, be they Christian, vodoun, pagan, Sufi, etc. ❋ Unknown (2006)

You may want to find a more obscure island on which to combine Haitian smuggling and vodoun. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

Other traditional healing practices include Puerto Rican espiritismo, Mexican-American curanderismo, Haitian vodoun, and Hmong folk practices. ❋ The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (2005)

Venues for spiritual healing range widely and include home altars, shrines of vodoun practitioners, Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, synagogues, and prayer chains on the Internet. ❋ The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective (2005)

But off all the places for vodoun, would you choose Norwich? ❋ Codepope (2003)

Bearing a rattle, or asson, Beauvoir led the prayer, an elaborate litany that invoked in hierarchical order the spirits of the vodoun pantheon. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

At least once he had all the vodoun priests in the country brought to the national palace to confer with him. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

There was also a dried toad, several seed necklaces, a dozen unidentified powders, and two vodoun wangas, or protective charms. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

During the 1957 election that brought him into power, Duvalier actively sought the endorsement of the houngan, and in certain sections of the country vodoun temples served as local campaign headquarters. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

Quite by chance the vision quest I had experienced bore striking parallels to fundamental features of vodoun initiation. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

In vodoun society, the physician is also the priest, for the condition of the spirit is as important as—and in fact, determines—the physical state of the body. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

Already in the depths where no moonlight could fall, huddled together, or darting in and out of the water, singing the vodoun songs or serving the many altars, were dozens and dozens of pilgrims. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

On the contrary, he described them as the very conscience of the peasantry, a quasi-political arm of the vodoun society charged above all with the protection of the community. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

Why is it, for example, that the one possessed by the spirit in vodoun experiences total amnesia, yet still manifests the predictable and often complex behavior of the particular loa? ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

Our Vodoun-Pop dancing class intructor [Marlene] finally [taught] us the meaning behind the Yanvalou dance this after [noon]. ❋ Negre Marron Records (2018)