How to Understand Haitian Voodoo Part One
63What you need
An open mind to Christianity
A sense of justice
Step One
First of all, let me just say that not all Haitians believe in voodoo. When people have problems with another person they go to the courts, but if you don't have money, you can't have justice.
Step Two
So voodoo is another way to solve a person's problems. If a rich person does harm to a poor person the poor person may decide to attack the rich person with voodoo.
Step three
Voodoo can make you sick, it can kill you or whatever. Killing someone in voodoo is called zombification. When the person is dead a few days later they go to the person in the cemetery and they take that person away to make them into a zombie.
Step Four
They have poussier which are small things that they throw on people. The Creole name for voodoo is poudre. Even though the person who is trying to attack me believes in voodoo, if I believe in God and am a born-again Christian, they will not be able to attack me. People who believe in God there is no way that voodoo can attack them. This is why it is important to believe in the God that is the Father of Jesus Christ. God the Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit go to http://www.joycemeyer.org/ for more information.
Step five
The Europeans used voodoo to take the freedom from the Africans that they brought from Africa that they brought to Haiti and later enslaved.
Step Six
Haitians themselves believe that voodoo is a spiritual thing. This is a spiritual thing that a person is born with and that you may have it in you. You just don't know.
Step Seven
If the courts in Haiti weren't so corrupt, less people would believe in voodoo.
Step Eight
The Lougerou. Some people go to sleep in the nighttime and the Lougerou goes to the top of your house and can do something to come into the house to kill you but you are not going to see anyone and the Lougerou will do this while you are sleeping.
Step Nine
Sometimes the Lougerou uses the mystic ways to fly into your house. They come outside at night always. Some of them walk around naked and use the tambour to dance. The tambour is an African drum.
Step ten
The Lougerous have a special day to come out which is not every day. The Lougerous talks amongst themselves and fix the day when each individual Lougerou will come out. They fix the day to come out between them for religious reasons.
Step Eleven
They also sacrifice and kill people. Sometimes the Evil (the Devil) decides to kill someone in the middle of the ceremony and the Evil needs that to be happy.
There is always a mystic reason for the voodoo ceremony and no one really knows the reason.
Step Twelve
Ah-she-lah-lah-boon-dye-aye! Ah-she-lah-lah-boon!
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Great hub. I am glad to read
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AngelBean Hub Author 3 years ago
I interviewed a Hatian friend of mine that I work with by the name of Cedor who gave me the information for this article. This is the information that I was given and I did not purposely set out to write misinformation. I stand by my article.