• GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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    1 year ago

    French colonialism caused Haiti to be the birthplace of Vodou, because they Christianized Native Americans and Africans they had enslaved, and the blending of religions and magic ideas caused the belief system vodou to exist. The people practicing this system were brutalized by the french, having to pay them for theri revolution. And so, they would be likely to use the curses in their system against the French.

    • pipedpiper@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Vodoo is a native african practice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_Vodun not due to colonialism .

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Yeah but it got heavily syncretized with christianity in the french colonies in America due to forceful christianisation of slaves, and this version got popularised in popculture.