Travel Guide Souvenance

Recall is a beautiful village, with its pink and blue houses, its roofs of straw, its well and its peaceful inhabitants. But there are many villages like this in Haiti. Only it was in Bride that was born Mrs. Dessalines, the father of the father of independence and great local pride.Above all, it is at Bride, instead of the largest voodoo ceremony in the country during Easter. The village then becomes a city of fair, flags fly over the square, international journalists disembark with their large cameras, expatriates are visiting, city dwellers play the curious, artists come with their products, and the most influential hougans of the region come to participate in the ceremony. It will last three days. Three days of dance and song for the Loas, three days of music and percussion to arrive in trance. Holy Sunday is the last day of ceremony and most important. All day the sacrifices of animals follow, sheep, biquettes, pigs, chickens, cows, etc., all pay their blood to feed minds. The participants, all of white dressed dressed by him, to be even closer to the other world. Virgin, drunk, inhabited by the spirits, they follow the hougans who go here and there in the village making sacrifices, shedding blood on hotels to bring the protectors of the past. Meanwhile, two large basins fill gently with water, and they expect the faithful to cleanse themselves, tradition of traditions: all are going to bathe in this dirty, but divine water at a time when they are steps. In the evening the party will continue, a big banquet will be given and half the animals will be eaten, the rest will be for the Loas. A few days later, it was the turn of the children (the marasa) where the remains of the remains filled their bellies from the rare taste of meat.