Best Nightmare on Earth: A Life in HaitiPrentice Hall Press, 1991 - 303 pages Beautiful, bizarre, dangerous, exotic; a Garden of Eden fallen into disrepair. This is Herbert Gold's Haiti. In this impassioned memoir, he reflects on the country's history and folklore, its people and politics, capturing the essence of this land where tragedy is the music to which the people dance. |
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... voodoo ceremonies , all staring eyes and licking flames . " You think you're ready , " Jean Weiner said . " My dear friend , you are not ready . " The bay of Port - au - Prince was like a black mirror reflecting the heat . Frantic boys ...
... voodoo ceremonies , all staring eyes and licking flames . " You think you're ready , " Jean Weiner said . " My dear friend , you are not ready . " The bay of Port - au - Prince was like a black mirror reflecting the heat . Frantic boys ...
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... voodoo ceremonies . On important evenings , the dirt roads were streaming with men and white - dressed women hurry- ing to worship . Black magic is not a part of voodoo in the same way that superstitious charms and curses are not a part ...
... voodoo ceremonies . On important evenings , the dirt roads were streaming with men and white - dressed women hurry- ing to worship . Black magic is not a part of voodoo in the same way that superstitious charms and curses are not a part ...
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... Voodoo ceremonies still included Latin ritual and the mincing steps of the court dancers at Versailles among African paroxysms and styliza- tions . When I visited André Pierre , painter and priest , in his hounfor ( temple ) , he had a ...
... Voodoo ceremonies still included Latin ritual and the mincing steps of the court dancers at Versailles among African paroxysms and styliza- tions . When I visited André Pierre , painter and priest , in his hounfor ( temple ) , he had a ...
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Chapter Three LoupgarousWerewolvesHobgoblins | 37 |
Chapter Four The Renaissance of the Fifties | 51 |
Chapter Five Combat de Coqs | 69 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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