Voodoo rituals involve music, dance, and gestures ... Ultimately, it does not matter whether Zangbetos have a real person inside or not. What this entrancing dance makes clear is the need to ...

For locals, these are go-to remedies. 2. Trances and dances with the dead Egungun funeral trance Voodoo’s most volatile dance is the Egungun funeral rites trance, in which spirits of the dead ...

Featuring traditional ceremonies, dance events, and rituals in the form of incantations, adulations and offerings, Voodoo — which has its own pope whose reign dates back to the 1400s — borrows ...