Do voodoo exist ??

Question

I ve watched something about it and i can't trust that peoples becomes zombies and other things like that
http://www.peripherique.org/article-2942536.html

the link is an illustration of a hand with a doll don't click if you don't want

Answer 1

Voodo does exist as a form of haitian religion whare a trance state is atained through drugs and dance to gain a higher state of being where a person has visions. The zombie state can be caused buy the use of blowfish venom that will make the taker very groggy and open to suggestion. It's not magic, it's just hypnotics and drugs.

Answer 2

The book the Serpent and the Rainbow, by Wade Davis, will explain how zombification works. It's really a torture involving powerful drugs and isolation, that can temporarily or permanently alter a person's state of mind. It's done to people who've done other people wrong. It's not like in the horror movies.

This is a very, very, very small and easily sensationalized part of Vodoun, and is mostly a Haitian thing. It's much, much more about reverence for the ancestors and nature spirits, as well as the use of magick.

Answer 3

Voodoo is a religion based in Haiti, which is a mix between the old African religions and Catholocism. One of the main parts is the trance state where the high priest invokes a deity or "loah" to their rites.

They do have a ritual of Zombification, however it is not the bringing back of the dead in the Horror films, but a way to enslave a man by holding his soul after poisoning him.

The idea of the dolls goes way back further to the older religions especially the European ones where the "Witch" would use the image of a person as a substitute for the person to cause pain or to control them. It still continues, but is classed more as Black Magic than Voodoo

Answer 4

voodoo is an afrocarribean based religion that is an ancient and viable spiritual belief system. It has many adherents and is a far cry from Hollywood's misleading and usually inaccurate interpretations . there are positive and powerful aspects within its mystery's..Datura is an herb used in some of the darker aspects of voudoun in Haiti and when a topical powder is introduced into or onto the skin of a zombie it brings about death like corpse like symptoms...a bokor can seemingly bring his victim back to life using a herbal anecdote. a well guarded secret

Answer 5

It's a popular belief in Haiti, there's evidence to suggest that people were bought back to life in a zombified state, usually to work on plantations, etc.

Check out a book called Eaten Alive. Its a book about zombie/cannibal movies, but it has a very interesting chapter about the origin of the idea of zombies, etc. It goes in to depth about Haiti and voodoo magic.

Answer 6

Vodou does exsist. I practice Haitian based Vodou. We do not make zombies and use voodoo dolls. We honor our ancestors, serve the lwa, and praise God. Bokors are said to practice with both hands. They throw curses and they are not associated with Vodou at all.

Voodoo dolls are a form of sympathetic magic. the doll or poppett would represent a person. it was mainly used to help heal someone. The are not part of the Vodou religion at all.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

voodoo is a religion so it exists. people who belive in voodoo become zombies because they are fooled into thinking it they are administerd a drug that makes them seem dead then when they are buried the boccur (evil voodoo priest) digs them up they believe he brought them back and can control them. faith is a powerful thing. check out a movie called the serpent and the rainbow it's a true story.

Answer 9

Yes, vodu exists. It is a old african religion that transmuted from worhipping "orishiuns" or nature spirits when the africans were brought to the carribian islands by slave traders who didnt allow them to pratice their native religion anymore forceing them to become catholic. Then the mearly substituted the catholic saints for the orishuns and continue to pratice to this vary day. It is also called Santiria, driveing it's name from the worshipping of saints.

Answer 10

Vodun/Vodoun is a name attributed to a West African ancestral religious system of worship and ritual practices, where specific deities are born and honored, along with the veneration of ancient and recent ancestors who earlier served the same tutelary deities. This system of worship is widespread in a multitude of African groups in West Africa.

The cultural area of the Fon, Gun, Mina and Ewe peoples share common metaphysical conceptions around a dual cosmological divine principle: Nana Buluku, the God-Creator, and the God-Actor(s) or Vodun(s), daughters and sons of the Creator's twin children Mawu (goddess of the moon) and Lisa (sun god). The God-Creator is the cosmogonical principle, who does not trifle with the mundane, and the Vodun(s) are the God-Actor(s) who actually govern on earthly issues.

West African Vodou, just as all indigenous African Religions, has its primary emphasis on the ancestors, with each family of spirits having its own specialized priest- and priestesshood which are often hereditary. In many African clans, deities might include Mami Wata, who are gods and goddesses of the waters; Legba, who in some clans is virile and young in contrast to the old man form he takes in Haiti and in many parts of Togo; Gu, ruling iron and smithcraft; Sakpata, who rules diseases; and many other spirits distinct in their own way to West Africa.

European colonialism, followed by totalitarian regimes in West Africa suppressed Vodun as well as other forms of the religion. However, because the Vodou deities are born to each African clan-group, and its clergy is central to maintaining the moral, social, and political order and ancestral foundation of its villagers, it proved to be impossible to eradicate the religion. Today in West Africa, the Vodou religion is estimated to be practised by over 30 million people. Vodoun became the official religion of Benin in 1996.

A zombie is an undead person in the spiritual belief system of Vodou. These folkloric zombies are humans who have had their Ti Bon Ange or soul stolen by supernatural means and shamanic medicine, and are forced to work for their "zombie master" as uncomplaining slaves on isolated plantations. In the book The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks, it is theorized that voodoo zombies aren't actually dead, but are living humans under the influence of an extremely potent neurotoxin that practicly destroys all sense of self, and is therefore easy to control.