I try to look up and get a direct answer about what ethnic groups can perform vodou but I get vague or cryptic responses.

I know people or color and creole can perform but Vodou but I’m curious if other races or ethnicity’s perform?

I want to learn more about lineages in vodou but i can’t find any information about it like id have to go learn from a house, Are Asson and tcha tcha the same? how much differentiates between the 2.

im 99% sure my family and almost everyone ik practices a Familial rite and doesn’t carry any of that stuff 1. they don’t carry asson, 2 i asked my grandmother she said “que lineage de que?!”, My grandmother and I are 21 divisions, And for what Ik 99% of dominicans(ATLEAST in the Land.)Don’t practice Any of those lineages , But a familial rite. My grandmother baptized my cousin, etc.

Hello everyone, I am new to Haiti Vodou topic and after reading 3 books about it I decided to invite Papa Legba to my house. Not gonna cover the altar and self protection topics. I would like to discuss the showing of Papa Legba.

The calendar on the wall started flipping the pages gently up and down, so I decided to move it to the altar as for a gift.

In return I asked a clearance on the situation in my life. There is a witch who is casting spells on me and ruining my name all over the small city that I live in.

I didn't get an answer yet, my question is should I repeat the summoning with more valuable altar?

I was proposed a reading a vista clara to see if the misterios walk with me.

The info needed are full name, dob and a picture.

Is it okay?

A relative of mine has an ex who is very involved in vodou. I want to keep this as anonymous as possible but we have reason to believe he's going to try to send some negative energy my relative's way through a curse or something. Is there something she can do to protect herself from this? Is it a different process if her ex has already done so?

Hello everyone, I've been looking for a documentary called "In Search Of Voodoo: Roots To Heaven" for several months now. It was directed by Djimon Hounsou.

I can't find it anywhere. It was available on every streaming platform when it was released. But that's no longer the case. UK University libraries have refused to lend it out for one reason or another. The Djimon Hounsou Foundation is hard to reach.

Any ideas?!

I'm Haitian American, I don’t do vodou or religions at all honestly but I've been reading about Erzulie for some months now and it's like she's so perfect and I relate to her so much, her love for water, women, beauty and just everything about her is so spot on in resemblance to me. I wanted to get a tattoo of her and other Haitian cultural things on my leg, would that be okay?

I will be asking this of r/santeria as well. This is for my manbos and babalawos.

Christians come for readings. They come to ask you to protect them. They come to ask you to bring retribution on others. They come to ask you for love and wealth. You give. They get.

Then they tell the world you are evil and worshiping devils and demons.

So why do you help them? It seems like you're selling them the rope they will use to hang you.

I've been developing my own indie game and found myself drawn to the Vodou religion, especially its connection to the lwa spirits, as it aligns well with the world I'm creating.

I'm looking for community help with challenges in my indie game development, particularly ensuring respect for Vodou without perpetuating stereotypes.

Despite no known familial connection. I do have an intense intuition, amplified after a meeting with a late Aunt who blessed me and said she was passing down a gift with a very intense prayer shortly before her passing. This intuition draws me strongly to Vodou, though I often question it and doubt myself.

I've been studying Kreyól in my free time for nearly a year and have some basic Vodou knowledge, but honestly not much. Every time I think I know something I realize I know nothing.

My focus isn't on any particular house or form of Vodou as I intend to mix different practices and ideas for worldbuilding. But as of now I have a few questions.

1. What would you most like to see represented about the religion as a practitioner

2. What should I take note of to avoid appropriating or including anything damaging

3. Are there any resources you recommend for me to learn from that are reliable. I'm in the SouthEast U.S, I plan to take a trip to NOLA at some point, but if there's any places that I can consult nearby that would be wonderful.

4. Is there any strong advice or thoughts you have that you think I should consider?

Thank you in advance, I'm hoping to dig into my actual ancestry at some point but my dads side is a bit hard to pin down right now.

I'm honestly terrified of doing something wrong and angering someone or something higher than myself. I hope it's clear I take this seriously and intend to listen as much as possible. If my game has to be much more loosely inspired than anticipated than I'll have to mange.

P.S. A bit off-topic, I've also been studying Rootwork, and would love some resources there if anyone has any.

Hello! I'm not a practitioner of Voudou or any spiritual practices, however I do know as a non-Black person, I want to be sure not to disrespect the practice by appropriation.

My mother bought me shirts from Marie Laveau's shop and on the shirt seem to be vèvès of Papa Legba and Maman Brigitte. If I educated myself on the practice, and pay respect to the clothing, is it disrespectful to still wear it? If so, is there a way to either respectfully dispose of the shirt or give it away?

Thank you so much, and may the stars smile on you all!

What’s the difference guniea and assogwe , I heard assogwe view the lwa differently

By guniea i mean (im pretty sure they mean) haitianvodou outside of those rites(like champwel assogwe makaya etc) Just a house/family right like 21 divs. as assogwe also serves guniea .

also is there anyone that practices haitian vodou outside of assogwe? i don’t zee alot of people who do

I've been talking to this girl for some time and things are starting to get more serious between us. When we first started getting to know each other, she would ask me what my religion was...

I have been interested in Vodou practices for some time and have been researching more about the religion. I am first-gen Haitian American, but was raised in a very Christian household so Vodou was never something that I was taught. She is African-American and was also raised in a Christian household. I would not consider myself a Vodouisant right now, but it is something I am open to in the future. I have my own set of spiritual practices that include my ancestral altar, tarot cards, and personal protection spells. I want to continue learning more about my cultural roots before deciding to engulf myself in the religion.

When I was asked by this girl about my religion, I simply told her that I am "spiritual" and that I "can't put a label on what I do." I can tell that it is something that she is concerned about since she is a Christian, but I don't want her to think of me any sort of way if she knows the full truth of what I am interested in. She asked me if I believed in God, to which I said yes since I still do. She wants me to go to church with her and even pray with her one day. I don't mind going to church here and there, but I don't think I'm fully comfortable doing anything more than that.

Has anyone been through a similar experience of telling people about your interest in Vodou? Should I be forthcoming about it? I don't want to keep things a secret for too long, but I also don't want to scare her away if I tell her that I am interested in practicing one day. I hate how taboo Vodou is, especially since most of the misconceptions come from ignorance. But I guess I'm just having a difficult time navigating how to approach different conversations like that.

Hi,

I was thinking of seeking the assistance of a spirit in a domination spell to overcome a situation.

I know Santa Marta is the one to dominate people ans situations, but I wonder if she's a Lwa. In this case then of course I won't call on her.

hopefully its not too bad

for reference im a 24-25 yo woman who's primary study area is theology, ever since i was a young teenager ive had fascinations with vodou.i never found solid research point (until now) so only kept the fascination and longing in my head until i was ready. two weeks ago i naturally learned how to read playing cards and shuffling (WHICH IVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO DO) almost as if driven to do so and now i stumbled upon the "vodou archive" online and have been pouring over paper after paper and the more i read and the more ceremonies i watch from afar the more i fall in love! so i humbly ask for tips or maybe book recommendations. i also do beadcraft and its my primary way i work for the divine so im very excited to utilize those skills in a new light

sorry for the ramble, peace and love 🫶🏻

in haitian vudu do you / can you find out MET TET before lava tet? before u fully initiate?

Thank you to all my clients 🥰. Vodou Lakay has reached Star seller status on etsy.

I’m planning on making a few moves soon that require me to be drug free in order to get certification and that caused me to quit smoking. Ever since I quit smoking I noticed that I have way more spiritual dreams and the lwa influence me mentally a lot more than when I was smoking marijuana. iDK 🤷🏾‍♂️ I just thought id share that with you guys because maybe some of you guys smoke marijuana and you don’t dream much. Possibly you can try to take a week break or something and see what happens.

Nothing feels more amazing than dreaming about lwa that your married to :)

As I'm stepping into who I'm supposed to be, I find that some things I used to care deeply about just don't interest me as much. Is that the influence of spirits and ancestors or is it just a normal change from growing and maturing?

I'm not becoming one of those people who make ATR/ADR their whole personality. I am finding though that is changing how I understand and perceive the world around me.

Did this happen for you or did you mostly stay the same + the addition of practicing Vodou or any other ATR/ADR?

Why do we worship, work, serve the lwa, And not just god? I as a practitioner and follower, and apart of a bloodline of vodou, commonly get asked this by religious people… But i can’t truly tell them a good answer. I just know what i know and understand what i understand i can’t put that in words if that makes sense. Hopefully someone can give me a explanation , A reasoning etc

I think i just can’t put it in words or a good enough example idk

Met my best friend on here, she so awesome.

there is a lady who puts voodoo on me and my surrounding friends and family. it usually comes in the form of dreams but there has been physical symptoms and sometimes she makes me hallucinate. i want to know how to get it off of me. she has shown herself in the dreams multiple times. its getting rather annoying so if theres anything you can do to help please let me know.

I am sharing a lot of information with you guys that I feel like should make you guys a more educated practioner which means it will be less likely for them to take advantage of you it may seem as if I’m doing something wrong but, let me share a little secret with you guys,

THEY LITERALLY DO THE SAME EXACT THING TO EACHOTHER BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU HEARD A OUGAN OR A MANBO “TOOK” SOMEONE ELSES SPIRITUAL CHILD? NOW ASK YOURSELF HOW DO YOU THINK THEY WERE ABLE TO DO THAT?

Answer: BY DOING THE SAME EXACT SHIT I DO, INFORM THE PERSON ABOUT THE WRONG DOING THATS TAKING PLACE. The only diff is they do it secretly behind closed doors so nobody knows. So Techinally anyone mad at the information I’m sharing is a hypocrite.

(First things first im doing a bunch of stuff at the same time plus im trying my best to type these thoughts out really fast so my grammer and punctuation is going to be really off at times 😅 I’m know how to read and write, ok?? 🤣🤣🤣)

Ok so a common mistake I see most Americans initiates make is the end up putting themselves in a situation where they are anually spending money for animal sacrifices that they are not their to witness get sacrificed. In my opinion this is not wise for many reasons. One reason being that when an animal is sacrificed, the person responsible for the animal sacrifice HAS to atleast TASTE the animals blood. (It’s nasty and gruesome and inhumane yes I understand and I apologize that voodu is this way so please forgive us) aside from having to taste the animals blood, we typically make our wishes while holding the animal that is being slaughtered or atleast make our wishes in the presence of the sacrifice. Asides from that you also want to be present the night after the sacrifice when the animal is cooked and fed to visitors because typically the spirit hands you the basket of food and have you walk around and give it away to people.

Aside from these reasons, there are many other reasons like knowing wether or not the animal was even purchased but I’m not gonna get into all that because that’s only gonna make them hate me even more than they already do for sharing this information with you.

whispers very silently so they don’t hear

Depending on what level you were initiated, technically YOUR supposed to be mounted by the spirit when the spirit kills the animal

Ooops my bad ya ignore that last one I smoked mad weed today so idk what I’m talking about

MEN KOMAN POU KONEN KI WI A KI MACHE AVEW

Pran yon gode dlo, limen yon balèn, Anvan wlimen balèn nan, vire Inan men wnan Sans zegwi yon mont, pale a balèn nan Pou I Tounen limyè ki Pou mennen Iwa Mèt tèt ou vin idantifye Ia ou Si w vle ekri non w sou balèn nan anwo desann Anvan tou fè sòm 51 oubyen mande padon ak tout kèw Pou tout tan ou pase ou pa t pwoche pre Bondye. Limen balen nan, salye 4 pati dimond, chak ou salye jete yon ti dlo (komanse bò kote soley leve) epi mande Pou wwe lwa ki mache ave kou a. Mete balen nan bò tet ou ak gode dlo a al domi epi wap jwenn rezulta,lwa ki mache avew la ap few wel nan domi,lap pale avew BOUGIES POUR UN SORT DA' MOUR PASSIONNÉ Pour dessiner un amour passionné à votre façon, au cours d'une lune croissante Rassemblez deux bougies coniques, Un rose et un rouge, et un peu de fil rouge et de jasm