Voodoo picture book

Yes, I have a picture book of voodoo. Its is quite awesome. Not only because it has great pictures, but also because it is a fabulous source. Reading more about voodoo, I believe I will end up focusing how voodoo has incorporated western religions into their faith. But first, some of my favorite facts. Ancient African religions were the first to believe in zombies and werewolves. Therefore, I can blame them for starting the awful Twilight series. By anyways, zombies were thought to be (obviously) the dead coming back alive, usually summoned by a voodoo priest. They were forced to obey the sorcerer and he/she could send them to terrorize hated members of the community. Many times, families of the dead would sew the mouths of the deceased shut (they could only wake up if they answered to their name) or poison the bodies just to make sure they were actually dead.

Werewolves were thought to be animals possessed by wanga or supernatural forces. Again, the sorcerer would summon these spirits and make them posses a wolves who then would suck the blood of babies. People were sometimes damned to be a werewolf by attempting to buy evil spirits.

Now the useful stuff. Voodoo religions believe in lwa, or simply spirits. Each lwa is a different entity, some good, some bad. They are present in the human body and nature which shows that a supreme God is ubiquitous. The lwa has been connected to Catholic Saints because each represent a different aspect of life. There are even lwa that resemble the devil and in some parts of Haiti, a lwa is known as Lucifer. While many aspects of the Christian religion were forced upon Africans, even the Christian God, in the eyes of the voodoo religion, it has taken on many aspects of the African supreme being.