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VODUN (and related religions: Candomble, Lucumi, Macumba

www.religioustolerance.org/v...

Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance

Feb 7, 2010 - Vodun is sometimes called Voodoo, Vodoun, Vodou. ... The name was derived from the god Vodun of the West African Yoruba people who ... them when they were forcibly shipped to Haiti and other islands in the West Indies.

The Yoruba Faith

www.howard.edu/library/reference/.../YorubaFaith.ht...

Howard University

The Yoruba people are descendants from a variety of West African communities. ... The French plantations in the Caribbean .. especially Haiti. ... Cuban Santeria; Hatian Vodun (voodoo); Brizilian Candomble; Trinidad and Tobago Shango are ...

Cult of Voodoo

www.eaec.org/cults/voodoo.htm

Voodoo can be directly traced to the West African Yoruba people who lived in ... when they were forcibly shipped to Haiti and other islands in the West Indies.