listen to the audio version only we greatly appreciate it and vice versa if you're an audio listener and you've never checked out the show on youtube joel actually spends quite a bit of time on the youtube sort of version of the show and putting in overlay of a lot of different clips and images and really just creates a visual experience uh to go along with every episode so and it's always nice to put a name to a face if you haven't seen me and josh yet then that's who come hang out on youtube absolutely that would be really cool if you come check us out on youtube you can just search lights out podcasts we'll have the links below for you as well but this episode of lights out is brought to you by honey and higher love wellness and more on that later but let's go ahead and just jump right into the story so to begin we're going to start by talking about voodoo a little bit because voodoo as we know it today became popular in haiti during the NUMBER_TOKENs and the roots of voodoo's origins have been around since the beginning of civilization practically even up to NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN years ago its origins began somewhere in west africa possibly the country of benin where the word voodoo means spirit yet many of its rituals and traditions have changed greatly since introduced to the americas voodoo was a way for haitians and many africans to come together during the slave trading boom of north america slave traders tried to cut any social ties between the slaves and any sense of community was often lost as a result so the practices of voodoo were the slaves response to all that and they tried to retain any sense of community during these times which i think is very understandable that you would need you know whether it's religion or some type of practice to sort of help you keep the faith and keep your you know your family or community together that's exactly what they did during the countless years of the slave trade the haitians and africans began including their own gods and rituals into the ancient traditions of voodoo many traditions have changed throughout the earliest years its practices as well as its darker depictions of evil and malicious deeds have often been distorted in movies and television we most often see vile interpretations concealed in dark rooms dolls are poked with needles and blood sacrifices are made to the gods and media in the NUMBER_TOKENs went wild with these representations of voodoo and by the end of the century voodoo followers were forced to practice underground true followers of voodoo though frown upon these depictions yet on occasion no matter how far fetched dark and morbid realities often come true and voodoo still lives in the us today in the south it's often known as the new orleans voodoo or louisiana voodoo and it was brought to this region by slaves between NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN. much more of its influence came after NUMBER_TOKEN once the slaves revolted in haiti and fled to louisiana their specialties were herbs and poisons along with the creation of charms and amulets that were believed to protect themselves and others from harm and these trinkets became the
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN listen to the audio version only we greatly appreciate it and vice versa if you're an audio listener and you've never checked out the show on youtube joel actually spends quite a bit of time on the youtube sort of version of the show and putting in overlay of a lot of different clips and images and really just creates a visual experience uh to go along with every episode so and it's always nice to put a name to a face if you haven't seen me and josh yet then that's who come hang out on youtube absolutely that would be really cool if you come check us out on youtube you can just search lights out podcasts we'll have the links below for you as well but this episode of lights out is brought to you by honey and higher love wellness and more on that later but let's go END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN