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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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