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Ascension Day cleansing and blessing bath herbs Β 22nd Lunar Mansion Talisman Β St. Gerard/Ghuede Memento Mori chaplet bracelet Snake sheds Ave Mater Dolorosa mini holy card Love Binding Oil
Erzulie Freda as equilibrist
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While I will probably never stop making a little face when anybody refers to the lwa of Vodou as βgodsβ and βgoddesses,β this is nonetheless a pretty decent little bite-sized article touching on some aspects of Fredaβs expressions of femininity. Β Nwokocha, Eziaku Atuama. βAn Equilibrist Vodou Goddess.β Harvard Divinity Bulletin v. 31:3-4 (Summer/Autumn 2013). Harvard Divinity School. Accessed 7 Feb. 2021.
Recent reading roundup: St. Expedite, Hindu chromos in Haiti, iconography in retablos, domestic work in the segregated South
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Did you know there was a very active St. Expedite Society in Independence, Louisiana up until very recently? I didnβt. Read more atΒ Folklife in Louisiana: βSt. Expeditoβs Role in South Louisiana Catholicism, in New Orleans and in the Italian-American Community near Independence, Louisiana,β by Karen Williams. Hindu deities on vodun altars: Rush, Dana. βEternal Potential: Chromolithographs in Vodunland,βAfrican ArtsΒ vol. 32, No. 4 (Winter, 1999), pp. 60-75+94-96.Β Also helpful more broadly, imo, for any student of folklore/popular religion whoβs ever encountered an argument about whether Abre Camino is βreal hoodooβ or not, wondered what to think about the development of the seven-colors...