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Encyclopedia > Dan Petro

In Vodun, Dan Petro is the loa who protects farmers; he is the father of Ti Jean Petro. The term Voodoo (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based religious tradition with primary roots among the Fon-Ewe peoples of West Africa, in the country now known as... A loa is a powerful spirit or deity in the voodoo religion. ... In Haitian Vodun, Ti-Jean Petro is a snake-loa and son of Dan Petro. ...


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Introduction to Haitian Mythology (1231 words)
A Petro practitioner of fl magic is a bocor.
Asson -- the rattle used by the houngan in invoking the loa; a symbol of the hougan's office.
Rada rite names are given; names which represent the same or similar principles in Petro or other rites are bracketed, but the correspondence between the systems is not exact.
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