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3 min	Haitian men plowing field in Jacmel, woman cooking, various foods in dishes, goats head and feet in bowl.	ID : 1130 haitain workers plowing field woman cooking jacmel haiti Jacmel Haiti
4 min	Bon Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen interview, Norman Parker interviewing, "Voodoo is a really rich and rewarding tradition and alot of people are interested but they haven't been able to go further into the religion because it's not very popular in certain parts of the world. There are very lively Haitian-American communities in Miami, Boston and New York, but if you live in Milwaukee it's kind of hard so usually what happens is that people find my page on the internet and I run discussion forums and I am always putting photographs of the ceremonies on the web and stuff like that, and I start talking to them and preform readings for them or suggest certain ceremonies they would like to make for themselves and after awhile they really want to know and if you really want to know you have to become an initiate so they come down and one of the things I insist on is that our ceremonies are authentic, we don't scam people, we don't do hocus pocus we do really honest to god initiations and people really see the difference in their lives. They come out really positive." Norman: "Who initiated you? Bon Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen: " My first console was with a priest named Luke Jediaum, who was the mayor of the town of Grand Goave Haiti, he was also Hougan, he was a very educated man, he spent alot of time with me, he spent six whole weeks before my ceremonies teaching me songs and prayers and vevers and ceremonies and having me assist at services and stuff. It was interesting because I only asked for the lowest grade of initiation, I only asked to become a Woodsie. But the lion said in his head no, you already read cards, you already do herbal baths, you already feed your ancestors, you have to become a Mambo, so to my surprise and everybody else's I became a Mambo. And that was great." "In 1991 I came here as a school teacher in Port Au Prince in an American school. In September of 1991 was the coup against Aristide which was a nightmare period in Haiti's history, so I left teaching and went to work doing human right's work. I worked for the International Organistaion for Migration (OLM)helping people to attain political asylum then I was a human rights monitor for the United Nations joint civilian mission in Haiti, all the while I was attending ceremonies and going to different Hougans and Mambo's houses all over the country and learning and I discovered I was very fortunate I received authentic services and correct initiation from my first Hougan. I had put my website up by that time and alot of people wanting initiation."	ID : 1131 bon mambo racine sans bout sa te la daginen voodoo ceremony jacmel haiti Jacmel Haiti
4 min	Bon Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen interview con't Norman Parker: Do you think the Duvalier regime gave voodoo a bad name? "I think the United States military intervention between 1915 to 1934 gave Voodoo a very bad name because they wanted to characterise Haitians as being savage, and incapable of self government before that it was the Catholic church and the slave trade, African religion was diabolic and horrible and had to be eradicated from soul of the person before they could go to heaven. I don't want to say I want to legitimise voodoo because voodoo is already legitimate, we are the majority religion in this country. It's different to be in the United States where Haitian communities are closed anyway or if you are in another branch of African religion you may not want to tell your co-workers but here we are the majority, we are legitimate, nobody needs to counter act any stereotypes. Voodoo is about power and self actualisation. If you want a promotion at your job and I work magic to help get you that job and you beat out someone out and in a fit of peak resigns, did I do good for you or evil to them." Norman Parker: What about Boku? "Boku has two meanings one is the head of a Mayekawa, congregation, there are denominations in Haiti traditional religion like there are in Christianity there are Baptist's, and Adventist's and Catholics in Haiti there are voodoo, there is a small Congo sect in sucre. Where voodoo is orthodox voodoo is dominant the word boku means a specialist in aggressive voodoo magic who usually isn't an initiate but has the les ots working with him or her to help them achieve their goals and might be just like that like getting a you job, it's a very competitve environment, there is alot of shortage and scarcity. If you get a job someone else goes hungry, so it's hard to say it's evil." "There are things that people do that try to harm people sometimes, in my house we don't do that to innocent people if someone is the local rapist we'll make him go and sit down but benevolent magic sometimes means sending the spirit of a dead person into the body of the living person then the living person starts to show the symptoms of the dead person. If someone has tuberculosis they get the symptoms but it is untreatable because it's a magical disease and requires magical intervention to get rid of it. Yes, that's a really nasty thing to do a very aggressive thing to do."	ID : 1132 mayekawa bocu boko boku magic religion voudoo voodoo jacmel haiti Jacmel Haiti
4 min	Norman Parker and Bon Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen wide shot, Bon Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen: " Most voodoosants are Christians, most voodoosants are Roman Catholics, I myself am an Episcopalian. I have initiated Jewish people, I have initiated Hindu's, Yogi's and other people from other branches of African traditions. In voodoo We don't ask anyone to give up, you don't convert to voodoo, voodoo is a way of managing spiritual energy." Norman: What about zombies? "Zombification is a criminal sanction. Wade Davis did some really good work on this. He had his book "The ethnobotany of the Haitan zombie passage into darkness". It's the scholarly companion to "The Serpent and the rainbow" "Zombification has nothing to do with Voudo it's a criminal sanction it's inflicted on people who in the United States would probably get the death penalty, repeat murderers, there are norms in Haitian culture just like in the United States, like it's not okay to beat up your parents and demand your inheritance before they die, it's not ok to father alot of kids and not take care of them and if you continually commit offenses against your community, the community rises against your family so in order to protect your family escape getting their yard trashed by angry neighbors, they take you to the (sampuel) it's like a police force and they say this is our son or nephew and we can't do anything with him, then the sampuel comes into play, I'm a member of the sampuel but here I work as a Mambo and not a sampuel queen, It's general knowledge to how we operate, there's a judgement and we can punish the person by making them ill enough that they can't go anywhere they have to stay in bed. Zombificatiopn is the most extreme case, it's far less common per capita in Haiti than the death penalty in the United States." "The person never dies, although I'm sure that the sampuel magicians that zombify a person believe that they have killed and raised the dead because the person appears to be dead, there is no detectable respiration, the person is comatose, they are taken from the grave again and revived and there is a whole wealth of magical framework that accompanies this, it's a magical event and the person themself who is raised in Haitian culture almost knows what's expected of them as a zombie. When a person gets too much of the poison, the tetrototoxin, in Japan when they eat blowfish they do it to get high, and when someone has to much of it's a poisoning event and they are taken to the hospital and recover or not, one of the other but in Haiti it's a magical event and people respond in a totally different way."	ID : 1133 bon mambo racine sans bout sa te la daginen voodoo voudo magic zombies jacmel haiti. Jacmel Haiti
2 min	Bon Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen interview continues. " They(Baptist's) we are not against them, we think they are really rude, we think we are alot more polite than they are because we never talk against them, we never say those dastardly Protestants are going to burn in hell because they didn't feed their ancestors, it's their choice but they talk so nasty about us and they really smear the religion, they say alot of things about us that are untrue and sometimes they are even aggressive." END of interview. Bon Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen talks about upcoming ceremony. Leah taking photos of Cathy or (Bon Mambo Racine Sans Bout Sa Te La Daginen) Shot of mural on wall.	ID : 1134 jacmel voodoo school haiti voodoo voudo religion priestess magic boku Jacmel Haiti
15 min	Jacmel buildings shot from car, Haitians on street,poor areas, traffic. Norman Parker entering and leaving dark hotel room interiors and exteriors on balcony, Norman entering and leaving hotel interior and exteriors of hotel entrance, close up of bell on door, Norman outside hotel entering hotel, Wide of Norman entering and leaving Jacmel hotel, Haitian girls in dresses on balcony, shots of run down Jacmel buildings, scenic wides over buildings, trees and sea from Jacmel hotel balcony, shots through bars of balcony and scenery,	ID : 1135 jacmel people buildings scenery norman parker haiti Jacmel Haiti
7 min	Jacmel street, woman walking with table on head, Haitians working, traffic, street scenes on long lens, people at market, talking and working, crippled man walking down street with cane and one shoe. Children playing football(soccer on Jacmel, Haiti street, ice cream van with customers on Jacmel street. END	ID : 1136 jacmel haiti street scenes haiti football market Jacmel Haiti