Later, he bought property on Bayou Road and became known as an excellent Voodoo healer and fortune teller. It was Dr. John who taught Marie Laveau. During the s, true Voodoo went underground when New Orleans became a tourist destination. At that time, a number of businesses were started, charging money as true voodoo followers never did.
They also began to sell fake potions, powders, and gris-gris, a Voodoo amulet believed to protect the wearer from evil or bring luck.
Today, Voodoo lives on in New Orleans as many people continue to practice the rituals and others see it as part of their culture. It is also a major tourist attraction. The temple serves Voodoo practitioners and combines elements from other religions. The Cultural Center next door offers handmade Voodoo dolls, blessed candles, gris-gris, mojo bags, oils, herbs, incense, art, and more. Opened in , visitors will see historic voodoo relics, paintings, sculptures, and other artifacts.
The museum also provides daily tours of the St. Louis Cemetery, where all manner of offerings are left for her.
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Kwekudee NewOrleans. Primary Menu Skip to content. African Voodoo. If anything, the slave masters would rather read and teach what they wanted and how they wanted than for the slaves to learn for themselves.
Never have any church. De white preacher would call us under a tree Sunday evenin tuh preach tuh us. When dey tell yuh tuh do somethin run an do hit. Nevertheless, slaves were very much aware of Voodoo and some would practice in the dead of night, chanting and dancing. Others were told to stay away from the devil magic and keep their head focused on the Lord and their Christian ways. In Western culture, a hex is similar to something like the Italian version of the 'evil eye' that is warded off by those who believe in its power by wearing a piece of jewelry fashioned like a horn.
A hex is a spell or a threat that something bad is going to happen to somebody. For example, it isn't done verbally, but ritually and certainly not with dolls with pins stuck in it.
The person is even usually told that they are going to be hexed. Hex i s a very small element of Voodoo and although it is meant to serve evil purposes, the myth that it is used as a tool to curse someone has been propagated by Hollywood in particular.
This doll pertains to a type of African folk magic called hoodoo. They have very little place in the religion and are not used by the majority of practitioners at all! For the most part, those involved in voodoo practice it for the same reason any other religion is practiced.
It offers a sense of purpose, peace and order and the practitioners invoke the divine beings for favors in such areas as health, family life and job welfare. Sounds a lot like what other religions do, right? Priests and priestess are the front line of social services for most of the people. White people can't gain off natural medicines, they can't use it to become rich like they do by selling us prescription pills and keeping us going back for more man made medicine.
Voodoo isn't all that different from western and central African beliefs. They all merge the worship of nature, ancestors, angels, etc. For many West Africans in the diaspora, voodoo has become a symbol of coming home. Daagbo Hounon is from a small town in Benin that offers an "initiation" from people from all over the world to come and learn about the practice.
The younger generation i n America is starting to accept Voodoo more and more as they dip into their spiritual identity. African belief systems still suffer for relevance as Christianity is still practiced by most Black people in America. As our people begin to wake up, educate and dig deeper into their old roots, it is almost as if we are being called to look at something bigger than ourselves. Bigger than religion. What is the harm in trying to understand what our ancestors so successfully understood?
The soul of Black people is not hidden behind the pages but the tradition that have been stripped from us, that we have been taught to fear. I challenge us to take a closer look and to not fear what we don't understand, especially if we haven't even given it a chance.
It is a part of our ancestors culture and may even be directly apart of your own history. We have had so much taught to us about European culture and the way Europeans live, but what about how we live? How our ancestors lived centuries ago; as Kings and Queens and free. I encourage you to explore this more. Read This Next Wild parakeets have taken a liking to London. Animals Wild Cities Wild parakeets have taken a liking to London Love them or hate them, there's no denying their growing numbers have added an explosion of color to the city's streets.
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