Voodoo巫术

Voodoo is a religious system with followers predominantly in Haiti, the West Indies.巫术是一个宗教系统与信徒们主要是在海地，西印度群岛。 Developed by slaves brought to Haiti by the French between the 17th and 19th centuries, it combines features of African and native West Indian religion along with some of the Roman Catholic liturgy and sacraments.研制的奴隶带到海地是由法国17至19世纪，它结合的特点，非洲和本土西印度宗教随着一些罗马天主教礼拜仪式和圣礼。 The voodoo deities, called loa, are closely related to African gods and may be spirits of natural phenomena - such as fire, water, or wind - or of the dead, including eminent ancestors.该巫术神，所谓的协议书，是密切相关的非洲神，可神的自然现象-如消防，水，或风-或死亡，其中包括著名的祖先。 A feature of the cult is that at special ceremonies the loa have the power to make their presence known.的一个特点，这个邪教组织，在特殊的仪式，该协议书有权力，使它们的存在众所周知的。 They temporarily displace the astral body of a living person and occupy his or her physical body.他们暂时取代星际一具人的生活中占据着他或她的肉体。 The individual thus possessed is said to be mounted by the loa and behaves and acts as the loa directs, usually in a manner characteristic of the loa itself.个人拥有的，所以说要展开，由协议书和行为，并作为协议书，指挥，通常在方式上的特点，该协议书本身。 Priests called houngans preside over these ceremonies.神职人员所谓houngans主持这些仪式。

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Two main groups constitute the loa: the rada, often mild and helping, and the petro, dangerous and often deadly.两个主要群体，构成了协议书：雷达，常常轻度和帮助，以及石化，危险，而且往往是致命的。 Graveyards, coffins, shrouds, bones, and skulls figure prominently in the symbolism of the petro cult.墓地，棺木，整流罩，骨骼，头骨突出的象征意义石化邪教。 The bocor, or priest, is especially dreaded for his supposed ability to create the zombie, a newly dead body that he reanimates by causing it to be possessed by an elemental spirit under his control.该bocor ，或祭司，是可怕的，尤其是他的假定的能力，以创造僵尸，一个新的尸体，他reanimates所造成，它须具备的一个基本精神，由他控制下的。

Benjamin Walker本杰明沃克

Bibliography: 参考书目：
H Courlander and R Bastein, Religion and Politics in Haiti (1966); W Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow (1986) and Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie (1988); M Deren, Divine Horsemen (1953); J Haskins, Witchcraft, Mysticism and Magic in the Black World (1974); J Kerboull, Voodoo and Magic Practices (1978); A Metraux, Voodoo in Haiti (1972). h courlander和R bastein ，宗教和政治在海地（ 1966 ） ;瓦特戴维斯，毒蛇和彩虹（ 1986 ）及通过的黑暗：人种的海地僵尸（ 1988年） ;米李德仁，神骑手（ 1953年） ; j haskins ，巫术，神秘主义和魔术在黑色世界（ 1974年） ; j kerboull ，巫术和魔法的做法（ 1978 ） ; metraux ，巫术在海地（ 1972 ） 。

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