The insights I’ve gained over years of working with Vodou spirits, known as the lwa, allow me to align every element of the spell with the specific needs of the person I’m casting for. Every case is different,
Vodou as an explanatory framework for illness has been considered an impediment to biomedical psychiatric treatment in rural Haiti by some scholars and Haitian professionals. According to this perspective, attribution of mental illness to supernatural possession drives individuals to seek care fromhoungan-s...
Many Espiritistas simply collect different practices and rituals from other religions, creating an agglomerate practice including tenets from Vodou, Roman Catholicism, Santeria, and other belief systems. The ability to communicate with the spirits in Espiritismo is known as psychic ability, grace, or...
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Fernández Olmos, Margarite, and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. 2011.Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santería to Obeah and Espiritismo, 2nd ed. New York: New York University Press. [Google Scholar] Humphrey, Paul. 2019.Santería, Vodou and Resistance in Caribbean ...
2011. Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santería to Obeah and Espiritismo, 2nd ed. New York: New York University Press. [Google Scholar] Humphrey, Paul. 2019. Santería, Vodou and Resistance in Caribbean Literature: Daughters of the Spirits. Studies in Hispanic ...