[wardaddy]

I had a small library of books I got down there on Haiti in English...not a whole lot of them and my ex took them actually

but I was fascinated by the place and had a lot of free time at night on occasion and would read all I could about the place

(i do that most places to be honest)

but I do recall one note about Papa sitting in the candlelight in the palace with the severed head of an adversary he'd murdered asking the head to divulge secrets the head knew about Papa's enemies.....head was in ice bucket...good thing

[Richard Kimball]

It's amazing how many people have been down there. The people I was with were missionaries, and wouldn't discuss voodoo at all. There was the basic worldly problem that voodoo practitioners commit a lot of murders. The second thing was that I have never been anyplace where I was more aware of spiritual warfare going on all around me. They were convinced that even an academic interest in voodoo was spiritually dangerous, and they could have been correct. Each of them had stories about missionaries that "went native," including stories about people that were invited to voodoo ceremonies and disappeared, never to return.

When I got back to the US, it immediately hit me how spiritually flabby we are. One guy I knew spent about twenty years there as a missionary and he had a hard time readjusting to the US. We are so blessed and take these blessings so much for granted.