Voodoo Festival in Saut d'Eau, Haiti. Thousands of faithful, including children and pregnant women huddle under a waterfall for
Voodoo Festival in Saut d'Eau, Haiti. Thousands of faithful, including children and pregnant women huddle under a waterfall for bathing luck and Ewa Ezili figure, one of the main characters of the voodoo pantheon is invoked. Under the waterspout it is impossible to hear a word; the devotees dance, make ablution with bottles and bowls of pumpkin and delivered to communion with saints 'praise'. These are baroque and colonial names as Baron Samedi, Brigitte Maman, Papa Legba, Damballa and Papa Ogou.
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