American Voudou: Journey Into a Hidden World (112 page)

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Authors: Rod Davis

Tags: #Body; Mind & Spirit, #General, #Religion, #Ethnic & Tribal, #Social Science, #Ethnic Studies, #African American Studies, #test

preachers
literacy of, 357-58
new role as evolved from priests, 356
role of in abolition of slaves, 356-58
prenda
power of, 272-73
spirits of, 266
presentation on voudou by Ava Kay Jones, 33-38
presentation to Oya, 310-12
preservation of orisha, 182.
See also
Oyotunji
Presley, Elvis, 118-20
priestess.
See
m'ambo
priests, 356.
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houngan
prophecy, 69, 315-18.
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