Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 at
1:15 am
There is more misinformation about Voodoo than there is about how many nukes are ready to be launched into the stratosphere. In this article, I’m going to try to separate some of the fact from the fiction. It isn’t easy to do for a variety of reasons, some of which you may be more than well aware of.
At the top of the list of offenders is Hollywood. Movie makers have long been misrepresenting the Voodoo faith (yes, it is a faith) since the days of Bela Lugosi in Voodoo Man made in 1944. This is the stereotypical movie of the pins in dolls misconception that people have about Voodoo. Not all Voodoo is about black magic. It is not all bad. As with anything else, there is good and bad in Voodoo. White magic in Voodoo is just as common. It just isn’t as talked about because it isn’t as controversial and titillating.
Little do most people know, again mostly due to all the misinformation and Hollywood’s perpetuation of the myths, is that there are actually several forms of Voodoo including Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Voodoo, and West African Vodun, which is probably the one people most identify with, even though it itself is grossly misrepresented. The amount of factual information online about any of these forms is sparse to say the least.
Voodoo black magic is what is most personified in the movies and throughout literature. The reason is obvious. It’s like the story about a crowd of people walking by a lady feeding pigeons in the park. Nobody stops to notice. But walk past a 10 car pileup on the freeway and everybody stops. Traffic backs up for miles. Evil is always more interesting than good.
You’re probably wondering why I am telling you all this. The reason is simple. Voodoo is more than just black magic. There is a lot of good that Voodoo can do, including actually healing people of their sins and diseases. If one goes into the learning of this discipline looking only for the bad and to cause harm, they are missing the whole point and missing a big part of the Voodoo faith.
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1:38 am
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5:38 pm
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