Where did voodoo come from?

The majority of Africans who were brought over as slaves to Haïti were from Western and Central Africa. Many of these slaves were practitioners of Voodoo and primarly descend from the Ewe, Anlo Ewe and other West African groups. The traditions of Voodoo have changed with time and have even assimilated some Catholic forms of worship. The uniqueness of Haïtian Voodoo, as compared to African Voodoo, is that the transplanted Africans in Haïti were obliged to disguise their Loa, or spirits, as Roman Catholic Saints, an element in the process called "syncretism." Roman Catholicism was mixed into the religion as the slaves tried to hide their "pagan" religion from their masters, who had forbidden them to practice it. Thus, Haïtian Voodoo has roots in several West African religions and was also influenced by some Roman Catholic and Taïno/Arawak Amerindian practices.

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