Voodoo Festival in Saut d'Eau, Haiti. Inside the church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to popular legend, in 1847 Erzulie Dantor, voodoo goddess of beauty and love, appeared at the site on a tree and began to heal the sick and perform miracles. Catholic priests saw this as blasphemy, cut down the tree and built a church a few meters away, in honor of the Virgin. For art work and syncretism, Erzulie is camouflaged in the Catholic Our Lady of Mont Carmel, or Our Lady of Miracles. Since then, Haitians consider the waters of Saut d'Eau, near the church, welfare and healing of all evil.
Voodoo Festival in Saut d'Eau, Haiti. Inside the church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to popular legend, in 1847 Erzulie Dantor, voodoo goddess of beauty and love, appeared at the site on a tree and began to heal the sick and perform miracles. Catholic priests saw this as blasphemy, cut down the tree and built a church a few meters away, in honor of the Virgin. For art work and syncretism, Erzulie is camouflaged in the Catholic Our Lady of Mont Carmel, or Our Lady of Miracles. Since then, Haitians consider the waters of Saut d'Eau, near the church, welfare and healing of all evil.
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