The fact that they started with the tale of slaves though. The history of yoruba traditional african vodun dates back thousands of years before slavery. Don't let the eurocentric eye fool you my brothas and sistas. Slavery was not African history, it interrupted african history. If you're going to tell a story about my people then do it right please

People fear what they don't understand.

This is a beautiful example of why we need to preserve the different cultures on this earth.

Good documentary. My man is of Haitian descent and this video is true to form. It did not have to start with the mention of the slave trade but that is how other 'branches' of Vodun were established, hoodoo is a perfect example. I am waiting for the release of Dimon Honsoun's doc about Vodun. But this doc gives basic info that is factual. Ayibobo!

Great documentary of 'olden days'! Powerfully narrated with a voice almost as mystic as the people that parttake in this display of ancient traditions!

Imagine the oppressor accusing the oppressed of making a pact with the devil in order to kill the oppressor (devil) and free themselves from slavery. Doesn't make any sense

Very good documentary with footage that is both enlightening and moving. It's great that you were able to convince these people to be filmed, I especially loved the woman on the beach that is taken by Erzuli. She had such a beautiful face.

Beautiful and informative documentary, thank you!

While I do not claim to know the full practices of voodoo beyond what my grandmother and aunts practiced in Louisiana and Mexico; I can agree this is a nicely filmed documentary showing how other cultures live and practice this religion. The comments here are very enlightening and I appreciate all the knowledge exchanged. I also see that it is practiced differently based on what part of the world you are in. ... Nice documentary, thank you for sharing.

Excellent documentary. The history of Haiti was particularly informative.

Loving this one thanks for sharing very important information giving thanks blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🙏🙏🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲💪💪💪

This is very interesting to know about my religion and leaves me even more interested in my religion

After passing through the comments, I can't waste my time watching this video.

i love africa and african people

It is well worthwhile to delve into things I don’t yet understand. But only With deep respect and the humility of one who may never really know. Blessings. JennF.

I don't understand the criticism and so called misinformation. After watching this I have even more love and respect for the various religions. Ashe!

This is a very interesting documentary, thanks for posting.

That was very interesting.

This was great. Thankyou!

i love the concluding lines. Thanks

unfortunately this documentary is more misinformation than education. my question is, is this on purpose?

I am from a country called BENIN in west Africa. I am an "amateur antropologist". I was born in Europe, raised between Europe, Africa and North America. Unfortunately, African scholars now define themselves through the eyes of Europeans and are now unable to translate their own culture adequately. Vodun, Voodoo or Hoodoo in the Americas is NOT what we have in Africa. By definition Vodun in Benin /Togo/ Ghana is related to the Gbé people (Fon, Goun, Ewe, Mina, Popo). The word is actually two words Vo (our) Adun (Essence force spirit) meaning "our essence", "Our force": US. The particularity of Vodun is that, it defines a clan, a family, a stronghold. It represents the spirit of the clan. Each has its own spirit (Adun). It is the vessel by which the clan relates to the afterworld. In the cosmogology there is only one GOD (suprise!!! monoteism), humans cannot access to god. He is the all powerful and mighty and therefore cannot be represented. No statues, no shrines etc. to the glory of god. It is just an evidence, the existence of god is not questionned just accepted as an evidence. Under god there are spirits (good or bad) they are forces to be reckonned with. Metal is a force, the wind is a force, plague is a force, water, air, thunder etc. Therefore spirits in their own right deamed to be worshiped. Now , the tricky part. What represents a clan is the Vodun of the clan. It is the vessel that will conduct thead of that clan to the afterlife (Very important aspect of a lot of African cultures). Since one is not wise enough, knowledgeable enough to address God (Mahu) One prays to the ancesters in the Afterlife to intercead with the Almighty on their behalf using the vodun as a vessel for that prayer. That is Vodun. NO sacrifices, no blood. Alcohol, food (beans, maize, red palm oil etc.) is offered along with kola nuts for the oracle. Those OTHER forces , spirits, are something man would want to harness as a shortcut to gain what he wants at his own risk and peril. The spirituality in West Africa is based on Duality for equilibrium (good cannot exist without bad), responsability of consequences and praying for those that have past before you. If you are in need of a short cut, you now enter the world of occultism OBO in gbé language, and yes there is a similarity with the word OBEAH. There is a difference between a Vodunon (a vodun priest) and a bokotonon (a OBO highpriest). The first one administers prayers and takes care of the clan temple the latter is the master of occultism that can cast a spell. When slaves were taken to America they could not retain the Vodun as it is linked to the clan. Because of their despair and in order to feel protected they retained OBO: the science of occultism called Juju in Yoruba. Since all spirits are called Vodun and slaves built shrines for those vodun, Voodoo etc. The white man called the whole thing Voodoo. The Jamican Maroon retained the original word Obeah that in Afica with time is probably an evolution of pronouciation OBO. Obeah would probably be the original world that would "O Gbe ha" (The Essence of Life). Hope I did not bore you too much. My french being better than my English, my apologies for my many mistakes.

Thank you for sharing this documentary, i appreciate and respect

Thanks for the deep insight

The omo elegba/exu/esu has captivated my soul. And im a child of oya. He is my best friend!

This is the first time of me hearing that voodoo was created in Haiti, i always hear them say themselves that it comes from africa

well done sir thanks you so much for this beautiful dcm

Fabulous video.

I still feel like I don't know anything more about voodoo then I knew before watching it. Every religion has good and bad in it, depending on the people's intention. Be blessed all!

You deserve a like for that skip intro link! +1

great documentary!

Sweet graphics!!

Voodou has many facets...old traditons, new traditions, etc. I think a proper disclaimer would've been beneficial for this documentary stating that. I'm a Voodou priestess of Ghanaian, Ethiopian, and Hispanic descent...so personally I can say this documentary is a very limited view.

The inaccuracies in this documentary are innumerable.....smh

Awesome love it 😍

How beautiful Love learning about all sorts of things

ok the eating of the glass bottle hurt my mouth to watch😯

What a beautiful faith, showing a deep understanding of the universe on a spiritual level whoever talks about this badly surely has no understanding of such a concept

In understanding this is only a very small part of A whole... There are many aspects that are from something that has been passed down in Oral Tradition that is very Old ..... There are many complex thoughts within this ... Appreciating the beauty of Something that came from something that is truly beautiful, sincere and loving .... and in understanding why there are been changes throughout time and the way they have preserved some of these traditions along side The Church's Saints... This is only a very tiny amount of information that shares a belief within one small place in the world... Rituals are very individualized to these people.... very interesting .. luckily there are many different docos that share a variety of aspects .,..... and even then they still make a very small part of the whole ...

u new atlantis guys are nice keep it up

I'm a proud white man who's proud of the fact that Haitian Voodoo is MY religion and my TRUE FOREVER Home! And thank you so much for uploading this Sir!

This video makes me wanna visit Haiti 😍

please make captions available so we can spell the names being presented correctly.

This is there lives . I very interesting . I am just needed something new to watch I like realistic things to to watch

This guy has the best voice ever!

Very good. I am a white person but for some reason feel very attracted to Africa and African culture.

LONG LIVE TO HAITI, from Glasgow Scotland... I been there 3X

so educational :O

They're just doing their thing on their island. Not like Christianity or Islam that wanna turn everybody out or have a problem with anybody who isn't.

My cousin was in the FBI for a number of years, he worked in Florida in the 70's and 80's. Once, he was involved in a drug trafficking case that involved a large number of Haitians, and while the case was at trial, he received in the mail a dead lizard with it's mouth sewn shut, which apparently was meant to keep him from testifying in court. it did not work, he testified, many drug dealers were jailed or deported, then served out the rest of his career, retired, and died of natural causes.

Please what soundtrack was used in the beginning...?

You can doubt our African Spiritual systems and we can doubt your Western spiritual system that was forced upon us during slavery.

You can not understanding our spirituality thro the lenses of cameras..we are divine beings💪🏿❤✊🏿😉

How do you do the voodoo that you do?

That's a brilliant fortress. I love King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Is that Exu at 9.00?

Nice documentary, good work, well done!

and these people live on the same hemisphere as us? Scary. Send em back!

I feel like I learned nothing,this was too hard to follow but I enjoyed seeing the people and places less traveled..

Delightful.

Damn, that episode of Miami Vice was pretty damn accurate after all!

I beleive that we all deep down have the knowledge (even if it wasn't passed down in modern culture), the key is to dig down to your roots. I've been developing my own spiritual system / ritual and use it to oppose the negative spirits that have possessed a large portion of the planet.

This stuff is very real,,... these gods are all real.... it’s only your energy!! Ayibobo!!

They tell this is not black magic, but if you know black magic, then you now this is black magic.

Every knee will bow,every knee will confess,Jesus Christ is Lord.The Lord reigneth.

Haiti was the richest French Colony, with huge gold deposits and expansive sugar production. As soon as the Africans finally freed themselves after three wars with huge French armies, the French threatened to re-invade with British and American help, and ransomed Haiti for almost all the gold the nation had. And so, the first Black Democracy in the world was robbed at gunpoint on its birthday by the first two White Democracies and a Monarchy, and became the poorest nation in the West.

Hey as Haitian imma let u know that. The name of the religion is VODOU not VOODOO or VOUDOU 👍🙌🏿

very insightful documentary about vodun or voodoo this is the true spiritual ceremonies to get connected with the ancestors in life

Thank you for this documentary very interesting research. Haitian not far from the African practices I'm aware of.

I have a confession - I am a white boy that practices Haitian voodoo and even though I've never been initiated to become a priest in this beautiful and amazing religion - The great and awesome Loa should know that I will always have their backs! And for another I will be devoted follower of Haitian Voodoo! May the gods bless me,all of you on here,the people you love and may they bless the people I love who are with me here on earth and the ones that passed away

voodoo didn't start with slavery. Haitians have lived there for years.

WELL.... THANKS TO YOU "WITHE PEOPLE" AS ALWAYS

Wow, very good.

I'm an atheist, but I think the world would be a very boring homogenised place if there was only one universal religion. I love the fact that there's such huge variety of different mythologies around the world and the way they influence various cultures. I mean in the UK christianity is so intertwined with our culture that you couldn't really remove it, even if you don't actually believe in gods. I wouldn't want to live in a UK without the churches and other amazing architechture it's inspireed. I wish more of the pre christain traditions, such as the Celtic ones, had survived though, as my favourite belief sytems are ones that are closely linked with nature (which Voodoo seems to do also). At least being an atheist, I can't be offended by someone believing in the wrong god.

it would have been helpful to have practitioners to explain the theology behind the scenes that were clearly going to shock western viewers but that is not the point of this shock doc -- it is what it is... when the lion hunter tells the story... thanks for the footage anyhow lol

Mind blowing 😟

the narrators voice almost reminds me of Serverus Snape

so sad. these ppl are lost. may god/allah guide them.

The serpent and the Rainbow.

anyone know when this was filmed?

will you please make more videos about voodoo

How could the have made a pact with the devil and at the same time It was Devils that held them in slavery!

I've always found voodoo/ vudu very intriguing

This why you have to love honor and respect everyone

Great documentary but the pronunciations... its best to have a linguist on hand to guide and correct the voice over actor....

I am a fully realised soul who has attained perfect samadhi and superconsciousness. I worship Shango (Voodoo 6th God) because I know that I am Voodoo.

Baron is not Expedite, he is lord of the dead , guardian of the cemetary.

Im looking for a doc on this by a voice I trust... I'll keep looking.

Thanks

It's breaks my heart for the animals involved in this madddnessss....

Mad respect to the Maroons.

*John Richards* Was the narrator of this interesting documentary.

Proud #ADOS and HAITIAN!✊👊🔵🔴⚪

I've been wanting to learn more about voodoo and other traditions as they are fascinating to me, and I would like to be more knowledgeable about other people's cultures, however every video I click on has people claiming the information isn't correct 😩

Its true not all is real but I must say that my family comes from this religion and I did see a lot of shocking things until my family became new born again Cristianismo and we found the true power of life.

NEVER A SLAVE BUT THE DEITY YOU WORSHIP AND DEVELOPER OF ALL RELIGIONS

Nice drum beat

they make it seem so evil and sinister. There's always two parts to a story

23:29 if he really was unaware of his surroundings at that point, he would have given a startled gaze into the camera, towards the spot-light.

Good to hear my ppl fought back

love it