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Voodoo Holidays

Here is a list of the holidays celebrated by many Voodoists, particularly in Haiti.

Demographics

Haitian Vodou is practiced alongside Christianity by about half the population, or some 4 million people, and this has been carried abroad with Haitian emigration.

Holidays

  • January 2, 3,4 - Breaking the cakes (case gateaux), a communal form of mange lwa
  • January 6 - Les Rois (the kings)
  • February 25 - Ritual feeding of the springs (manger tetes d'l'eau)
  • March 16 - Loko Davi, eating of the ritual wood and of its guard
  • March 19 - Saint Joseph, an expression of the jurisdiction of Legba
  • March 20 - Legba Zaou (eating consists mainly of a black goat)
  • April 27 - Danbala Wedo
  • April 29 - Breaking the jugs (casse canarie), deliverance of the souls from purgatory
  • April 31 - Feeding the dead (mange-les-morts)
  • May 12 - Feeding of different loa
  • May 18 - Feeding of Grande Aloumandia
  • May 20, 21 - Sim'bi blanc
  • May 30 - Sung masses (chante-messes) in the Roman-Catholic church
  • June 24 - Saint John
  • June 28 - M'sieu Guimeh Sauveur; Mystere Grande Delai; common table served for Maetresse Erzulie, Maetress Tenaise and Maetresse Mam'bo
  • July 25 - Papa Ogou or St. James the Greater (sheep and goats are offered)
  • July 26 - Common table for Grande Saint Anne, also known as Mystere Grande Delai and Grande Aloumandia
  • July 29 - Maetresse Silverine (who only very slightly tastes of the food offered to her) and Maetresse Lorvana (who smells flowers for her nurishment)
  • August 25 - Communion table for Danbala Wedo, also known as Saint Louis of the King of France
  • August 29 - L'Orient, one of the most important mysteres
  • August 30, 31 - Agwe (offerings of goats, peppers and peppermints)
  • September 25 - Roi Wangol and Mousondi
  • September 29 - Manman Aloumandia
  • September 30 - Maetresse Delai
  • October 30, 31 - Masses sung in the Roman-Catholic church; communion table of 40 scarves of different colors, exposed to the peristyle and "served"
  • November 1, 2 - The Guede loa come out of the cemeteries, possess their horses and come into the hounforts to amuse themselves in the form of souls incarnated or reincarnated
  • November 25th - Eating the yams (manger-yam)
  • December 10 - Ganga-Bois
  • December 12,13, 14 - Feeding the sea (agoueh r oyo)
  • December 25 - Bath of Christmas; leaf-rubbing for medical treatments and talismans for magic protection, ritual sacrifices of pigs and goats, boucans for amusement, to which the loa come to bathe themselves and their proteges; sacrifice of turkeys for Caplau

Source: http://www.hauntedamericatours.com/voodoo/voodoohollidays/


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