Voodoo Festival in Saut d'Eau, Haiti. This girl takes several minutes into a trance and a family member or friend help you retur


Voodoo Festival in Saut d'Eau, Haiti. This girl takes several minutes into a trance and a family member or friend help you return to normal status with the thumb pressing him the front of his head. Followers of voodoo (vodouisants) believe in one God called Gran Met (Great Teacher) to which all show you devotion. The girl is full trance in one of the pools of Saut d'eau. Voodoo in Haiti arrived with African slaves in fifteenth and sixteenth century, and because of their origin is multiple and complex, because all the people that lived there contributed some socio-cultural elements in their training. No. But before being a religion. Often it sees it as an African response to the operation of the system of his time enslaving black. Brutally torn from Africa, slaves experienced all kinds of moral and physical punishment. The black code that governs the colony makes the slave is reduced to a mere body, is one thing anyone who takes over Mr. colonizer. And with them, the owners often used abusive and dehumanizing methods including: forced labor, gigote, imagination, humiliation, death penalty, interdiction of learning to read and write. So, to answer for everything, voodoo will not be more than a cluster mechanism to defend, disclosed the slaves.


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