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In English, Vodou's practitioners are termed Vodouists; [45] in French and Haitian Creole, they are called Vodouisants [46] or Vodouyizan. [47] Another term for adherents is sèvitè (serviteurs, "devotees"), [48] reflecting their self-description as people who sèvi lwa ("serve the lwa "), the supernatural beings that play a central role in Vodou.
Marie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801 – June 15, 1881) [1] [2] [nb 2] was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, herbalist and midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II (1827 – c. 1862 ), also practiced rootwork , conjure, Native American and African spiritualism as well as Louisiana Voodoo and ...
This is a list of notable Louisiana Creole people. ... Marie Laveau (1794–1881) – practitioner of voodoo [141] Leonard Olivier (1923–2014) ...
[2] [3] [4] The term lwa is phonetically identical to both a French term for law, loi, and a Haitian Creole term for law, lwa. [5] The early 20th-century writer Jean Price-Mars pondered if the term lwa , used in reference to Vodou spirits, emerged from their popular identification with the laws of the Roman Catholic Church . [ 2 ]
Haitian mythology consists of many folklore stories from different time periods, involving sacred dance and deities, all the way to Vodou.Haitian Vodou is a syncretic mixture of Roman Catholic rituals developed during the French colonial period, based on traditional African beliefs, with roots in Dahomey, Kongo and Yoruba traditions, and folkloric influence from the indigenous Taino peoples of ...
Damballah La Flambeau, by the Haitian artist Hector Hyppolite. Damballa, also spelled Damballah, Dambala, Dambalah, among other variations (Haitian Creole: Danbala), is one of the most important of all loa, spirits in West African Vodun, Haitian Voodoo and other African diaspora religious traditions such as Obeah.
The Bambara people, an ethnic group of the Mandinka people, influenced the making of charm bags and amulets. Words in Hoodoo about charm bags come from the Bambara language . For example, the word zinzin spoken in Louisiana Creole means a power amulet.
Some will use herbal remedies if they are known, the herbal remedies begin to cross over into voodoo being that both originated with the Creole people. Switching from one healing system to another is common among these practitioners and their patients, whose religious syncretism is matched by syncretism among medical systems.