The popular notion about voodoo can be quite scary; evil spells and cantankerous shamans who can turn you into a zombie; dead animals and wild bonfire dances to the beating of an ominous sounding barrage of percussions.
It is so far from what voodoo really is that practitioners will either just find humor in the misconception, or feel insulted by it.
Although many of them have tried to dispel the ridiculous portrayal of the religion created by popular media, there are still persistent and incorrect beliefs about voodoo.
These kinds of spells, that actually pertain to voodoo, are depicted by making use of pin dolls, zombies that are considered to be evil, sacrificing animals and people dancing all over their territory to the beat of the drums.
It is a belief system that can trace its roots in Africa up to ten thousand years ago, and can be found in many countries although mainly now in the Caribbean.
One may also describe voodoo as some kind of heritage, or even culture, in the form of dances or the arts, language, and it is beyond doubt that this is certainly not just all about rituals, as a lot of people may consider it to be.
But because of the non-Christian like tenets, the Voodoo took hold only in the Caribbean where Christianity (and all its branches) does not have as much influence.
It was stated that the followers of voodooism seek guidance from their oracle which taught them to defeat the French people and emerged victorious after the battle. In 1804, the people of Haiti received their independence.
In the west, the use of voodoo was not widely acknowledged and this concept was not even made public. However, even at present, voodooism is still considered to be very mysterious, and was said to have acquired certain parts of the Christians.
To show unity, Catholicism incorporated drums and melodies of voodooism to their church services. By the year 1970, they estimated that around 100% of the people of Haiti are already Catholics.
These punishments, like lashings done to the people who disobeyed and still practiced their African religion, were done simply because the colonizers perceived it as a way for its colony to threaten the system that these colonizers were able to establish during this period in time. - 30290
It is so far from what voodoo really is that practitioners will either just find humor in the misconception, or feel insulted by it.
Although many of them have tried to dispel the ridiculous portrayal of the religion created by popular media, there are still persistent and incorrect beliefs about voodoo.
These kinds of spells, that actually pertain to voodoo, are depicted by making use of pin dolls, zombies that are considered to be evil, sacrificing animals and people dancing all over their territory to the beat of the drums.
It is a belief system that can trace its roots in Africa up to ten thousand years ago, and can be found in many countries although mainly now in the Caribbean.
One may also describe voodoo as some kind of heritage, or even culture, in the form of dances or the arts, language, and it is beyond doubt that this is certainly not just all about rituals, as a lot of people may consider it to be.
But because of the non-Christian like tenets, the Voodoo took hold only in the Caribbean where Christianity (and all its branches) does not have as much influence.
It was stated that the followers of voodooism seek guidance from their oracle which taught them to defeat the French people and emerged victorious after the battle. In 1804, the people of Haiti received their independence.
In the west, the use of voodoo was not widely acknowledged and this concept was not even made public. However, even at present, voodooism is still considered to be very mysterious, and was said to have acquired certain parts of the Christians.
To show unity, Catholicism incorporated drums and melodies of voodooism to their church services. By the year 1970, they estimated that around 100% of the people of Haiti are already Catholics.
These punishments, like lashings done to the people who disobeyed and still practiced their African religion, were done simply because the colonizers perceived it as a way for its colony to threaten the system that these colonizers were able to establish during this period in time. - 30290
