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Celebrants bathe and cleanse themselves before the spirits at the St. Yves Voodoo celebration
A Haitian woman lays in a muddy pool, grabbing onto a recently sacrificed bird during a voodoo ceremony
Pilgrims at the annual Basin St. Jacque Voodoo festival celebrate Ogun, the spirit of war. The spirit which was given the Catholic personification of St. Jacque by enslaved Haitians, is believed to reside in the mudhole
А voodoo ceremony in Haiti
A voodoo doll
African Women. Voodoo cult in Benin
Shrine at Voodoo King's Home. Ouidah, Benin
Women with Antelope Headdresses. A ritual drink in an animist voodoo ceremony. 2004, Togo
Marie Laveau
Voodoo Fetish on Bourbon Street New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Voodoo Fetish Market Lome, Togo
Konnyaku
А fetish statue of the famous 'juju', or ritual priest, Yemadze Bartelemi, 2004 Abomey, Benin
Fetish Used in Voodoo Ceremony. Heve, Benin
Fetish Used in Voodoo Ceremony. Heve, Benin
Voodoo Skulls. Togo
Voodoo medicine on sale in a Bamako Marketplace
Haitian Woman in Voodoo Trance 1970s Haiti
Voodoo Priest's Home, Abomey, Benin
A group of women hold bundles of plants as they close their eyes and pray during a ceremony for Fet Gede, a voodoo holiday commemorating one's dead ancestors. Fet Gede is a national holiday in Haiti, where voodoo, or vodoun, has been actively practiced since French colonial rule. 1996 Haiti
Worshipers perform a ceremonial dance at a Voodoo festival in Ouidah, Benin, 1993
A Voodoo design drawn by the priestess for each voodoo ceremony. Haiti. 1950
Priestess Yaffa, also known as Rose, dances during her ceremony as Voodoo Queen in New Orleans, Louisiana. 1991
Hooded and masked egunguns are present at a Voodoo festival in Benin. Egunguns are spirits, usually the ghosts of ancestors, who are believed to visit earth at certain times of year by possessing living people, 1993, Porto Nuovo, Benin
A crowd of people gather in a cemetery in Haiti to celebrate Fet Gede, a voodoo holiday commemorating one's dead ancestors. Fet Gede is a national holiday in Haiti, where voodoo, or vodoun, has been actively practiced since French colonial rule, 1996
One of the voodoo saints in this Saido dos Santos ceremony is Yemanja, the saint of salt water. Members of the sect who enact the saints must be held in isolation for 120 days as according to custom
Voodoo Witch Doctor King Fox is title of this witch doctor, whose make up include elaborate wooded mask. When dressed in official garb he may confiscate any fowl he can find. 1947. Africa
Voodoo Alter with Sacrificed Goat, Lome, Togo
A Haitian woman dances excitedly during a celebration for Fet Gede, a voodoo holiday commemorating one's dead ancestors
At a Macumba Voodoo ceremony, a teenage girl in a trance is supported by fellow worshipers. In Macumba practice, the temporary trance state indicates possession by a person's guiding spirit, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 1970
Sheila Clarke, from the Boscoe Holders Caribbean Dancers, performs Yanvalon to an audience from the Institute of Contemporary Arts. This is a Haitian Voodoo dance which is dedicated to the serpent God, Damballa, 1951
Woman Overcome During Voodoo Holiday. 1996, Haiti
The high priest Roger Bien-Aime leads members of the La Kou Souvenance, a voodoo practicing community that congregates in Gonaives, participating in communion and dance in closing ceremonies culminating their celebrations of Easter. The celebration is a mixture of Catholic Easter tradition and post colonial African rites. The congregations repeatedly dance in circular motions and formations to the beat of a drum for long hours. This is the first night of four. 2010 Gonaives, Haiti
Statue of Legba, Legba is a trickster God in the Voodoo faith. He is the keeper of the gate between the human and the divine world. He unifies opposites, enables communication between the contrasting worlds, and is often depicted as young and virile. Ouidah, Benin
Voodoo believers attend a ritual during a Voodoo festival in Ouidah, Benin
A Haitian woman paints her face with a white powder during a celebration for Fet Gede
Sunday mass service in a church in Port-au-Prince. Despite an important nucleus of voodoo followers and increase in protestant churches from America, the majority of Haitians belong to the Catholic church
