Manbo Jumbo oceans One of the first women

One of the first women to pilot the huge boats

As a gay boy in small town

"Duality-The Male"

Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE Grant P116B070251 & P116Y090057) as an example of the open access initiative

With New introduction by James Scott Trimm and Appendices by James Scott Trimm and Ed Stevens

Manbo Jumbo oceans One of the first womenAt the core of Vodou is possession, the thing that frightens many uninformed Westerners and conjures visions of demonic, evil stuff. This is not what I experienced practising Vodou in Haiti. To be filled with the Spirit, to speak in tongues, to channel, to experience a rapture, vision or epiphany of some kind. These are all possessions, when we are temporarily displaced and Spirit moves in. In Vodou this can be quite dramatic but is in no way demonic.