More Voodoo Photographs from Jordi Cohen, "Saut d'Eau Pilgrimmage

JAN SOCHOR PHOTOGRAPHY
By Jan Sochor

"Saut d'Eau Pilgrimage" By Jordi Cohen

HAITI - Every year in summer thousands of pilgrims from all over Haiti make the religious journey to the small village of Ville Bonheur and the nearby Saut d'Eau waterfall. It is believed that 150 years ago the spirit of Virgin Mary has appeared on a palm tree close to the waterfall. Haitians wearing only underwear perform a bathing and cleaning ritual under the 100-foot-high waterfall. Vodou followers (many Haitians practise both vodou and catholicism) hope that Erzulie Dantor, the Vodou spirit of water, manifest itself and they get possessed for a short moment, touched by her presence. [link]