sundegai: Fete Gede is the Haitian religious version of Day of the Dead. Voodoo rituals during Gede
sundegai: Fete Gede is the Haitian religious version of Day of the Dead. Voodoo rituals during Gede festival take mainly place in the beginning of November. Haiti, one of world’s poorest country, and with fresh in our memory country’s latest destructive earthquake in 2010 when an estimate of 220,000 people were killed. But Haitians don’t give up and walk through life as good and as bad as it comes. On 2 November the Gede festival is mainly concentrated around the main cemetery of country’s capital Port-au-Prince. In a scene of rituals the Haitian people honour the dead and the father of them all, Baron Samedi. People dressed in black, purple or white clothes dance wild, play music and drink alcohol. Some of them are believed to be possessed by the spirits. At the day of the festival of Gede, the Haitians move for one moment in happiness. -- source link