PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s voodoo leaders have trained priests of the Afro Caribbean faith to create a secret remedy for the novel coronavirus and to prepare the spiritual initiation chambers of their temples to get clients.
A Mambo, a voodoo priestess, dances at a ceremony during the break out of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Might 1,2020 Photo taken Might 1,2020 REUTERS/Jeanty Junior Augustin
In Haiti, where Western health care services are scarce and too costly for lots of, inhabitants typically count on the herbal remedies and ritual practices of their voodoo “houngan” priest or “mambo” priestess.
Draped in lockets of vibrant beads, Haitian Voodoo “Ati” or supreme leader Carl Henri Desmornes said in an interview at his “gingerbread home” in Port-au-Prince he understood there would be a deluge of patients at their temples.
While the virus settled slowly in the poorest nation in the Americas, in the last 2 weeks the variety of validated cases has actually nearly quintupled to 865 while reports of a strange “fever” are spreading out.
” Voodoo professionals – the Houngans and Mambos in specific – have the duty to look after the health and wellbeing of the population,” said Desmornes, 60, who was a