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- Asagwe - Haitian vodou dancing used to honor the gods.
- Avalou - ("supplication") Haitian vodou dance.
- Coco macaque - Haitian vodou implement. It is a stick, which is supposed to be able to walk on its own. The owner of a coco macaque can send it on errands. If it is used to hit an enemy, the enemy will die before the dawn.
- Gangan, Houngan - Haitian priests. They lead the peoples in dancing, drumming and singing to invoke the loa.
- Ghede - family of spirits related to death and fertility
- Guinee - Haitian afterlife. It is also where life began and the home of their gods.
- Loa - Haitian god or goddess.
- Mambo - Haitian priestess who, together with the Houngan, leads the vodou rituals and invokes the loa.
- Paket kongo - charms made of organic matter wrapped in cloth, intended to rouse the loa.
- Petro - aggressive and warlike family of spirits
- Rada - old, benefic family of spirits
- Ville au Camp - ("House in the Fields") The underwater capital of the loa
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