Wikipedia's article on Haitian Vodou, community-edited. Reliable for the religion's formation through the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries as enslaved Fon, Bakongo and Yoruba Africans in Saint-Domingue syncretized their traditions with French colonial Catholicism, taking the form recognizable as Vodou around the mid-eighteenth century; and for the article's own note that twentieth-century emigration spread Vodou abroad, with communities today among Haitian diasporas in Cuba and the United States. General formation and diaspora history only; this atlas does not draw on or cite any part of the article touching initiation or priesthood procedure, which the religion's own restricted-tradition fact covers.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Vodou
Source Typereference
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used only for general formation history and diaspora; not used for anything touching initiation or priesthood. NotesUsed for Vodou's gradual mid-eighteenth-century formation among enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue.
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