Word: voodoos
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...known for several years. The illiterate and docile peasants, who make up 90% of the Haitian population, believe what the government tells them-and it tells them ceaselessly that Papa Doc is their savior, to be revered on a par with Jesus Christ and Damballah, Haiti's voodoo snake...
...seemed to mean every word of it. The day after he was barred, Powell sat in the End of the World and appreciatively ogled Tanyiki Delamour, 24, a Haitian exotic dancer whose specialty is the "voodoo drumfire dance." "Don't get too close; you'll set me on fire," Powell warned. His usual constant companion, Corinne Huff, was nowhere in sight...
...cardsharp and famed capoeria* fighter-to Marialva, who is as beautiful as a saint in a procession but as dark and devious as Lilith. This story soon blends with one about Negro Massu and the christening of his blue-eyed son. There are problems here, since Ogun, the Voodoo god of iron, has been named godfather. The priest is puzzled by the throng crowding his church for the baptism, but it goes off well since everyone knows that "Catholicism and Voodoo blend with and understand one another." The final theme describes how the people of a new favela stave...
...exhibits the Spoonful's sunny, homespun country manner. The group is as versatile and high-spirited as any in folk-rock, and their latest "goodtime music" ranges from the symphonette sounds of Summer in the City, complete with auto horns and a pneumatic drill, to the African-inspired Voodoo in the Basement, played on steel drums and a wastepaper basket. Scarcely hum drums...
...Mississippi mentor left me with a last word of etymological mysticism: "Just so you can see some of the connections I'm talkin' about, look at the similarities between the Jewish race, and nigras and the orientals. Look at the words Judah, Buddha, and Voodah." (Voodoo with a heavy southern slur.) "Doesn't that suggest something?" he hinted. "Now you see why I say David Ben-Gurion is a Zen-Buddhist...