Voodoo Day
Today we traveled to the village of Ouidah, where thousands of people flock each year to receive a blessing from the town’s voodoo chief.
Voodoo is one of Benin’s official religions, and though I’ve yet to meet anyone who claims it as their faith, the whole nation is imbued with magic. Superstition, karma, gris-gris, amulets, protection rings — these are all part of everyday life.
So today when the dancers gathered and the singers chanted and the drummers drummed we were there to catch it on camera.
2 thoughts on “Voodoo Day”
And catch it you did. What fantastic photos.
For a moment I was surprised that you included "karma" with superstition and other tools of magic. But then I realized that was right; it's a facet of a belief system, an untestable tenet. As in Voodoo/Vodun, or the Abrahamic religions, or a thousand other myths, it's an element of explanation of all this, and for each, we're in or we aren't.
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