Voodoo History & Superstition

Voodoo first originated in African hundreds of years ago, later it was brought to the islands by slaves. Today voodoo is still practiced by many inhabitants of Haiti. While Hollywood has painted a rather dark image of voodoo their are many aspects of this religion that are positive in nature and affect people in a moral, economic and deep way, voodoo is more “religion” than black magic in Haiti.

Voodoo “black magic” plays a lesser role and is practiced by few people today (although around Halloween you might change your mind). Voodoo magic, has been greatly sensationalized by Hollywood with images of crazy mens and womens who had power over others, played with little “voodoo dolls” and were generally obsessed with evil.

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Check out the movie Serpent & The Rainbow

One movie that is fun to watch but is not a true representation of voodoo is “Serpent and the Rainbow” which tells the story of a man who is put under in a deep trance by a voodoo magician.

Unable to move, speak or communicate but fully awake while the doctor pronounces him dead, he then spends the next several hours watching his own burial and funeral.

Of course hours after he is pulled out of his grave once he is able to move and is “fully awake”. This movie is full of spells, magic and mysterious people that run around and get worried when the moon is full.

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