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Blog Post # 7 Introduction: Haitian Voodoo

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Kista Turner Dr. Joanna Harris English Composition 1102      April 2019 Haitian Voodoo: Does Haitian Voodoo have the same impact on believers, non-believers and the curious?   Haitian Voodoo is known as a multifarious religion, most people believe that it originated out of Africa however majority of the beliefs were initiated by Haitian slaves. Voodoo is a historical conception developed by descendants of African slaves who were uprooted then planted in Haiti. Later, called Saint Dominque this general population was transformed by Roman Catholic priests during the closing of the 16 th and opening of the 17 th centuries.   There is a world known myth that the tenacious people of Haiti were capable to conquer the French renegade throughout the Haitian Revolt by credit given to the Voodoo mysticisms, those historically that made them invincible.   The over-all terror & misunderstanding of Voodoo in the United States is linked back to the conclusio