Word: houngans
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...heavy economic drain on the sparse resources of their worshipers. The merchants of Port-au-Prince sell a good proportion of their expensive French perfume to black farmers who buy a bottle of Arpege or Chanel No. 5 for Maitresse Erzulie. One of Granny's converts paid a houngan $60 (about two years' cash income) for a can of something to bury in his garden to protect his crops and family...
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