Describe the myths and teachings of voodoo, not the skinny.

Haiti, the world's first black **** and nation and the second independent nation in the New World of the Americas, declared its independence on January 1, 1804, and was first discovered by Christopher Columbus as the location of the country of today's Haiti, which at the time Columbus named the island of Espenula. The island of Haiti is now known to many because of a bizarre religion, voodoo.

"Voodoo," which means "spirit," was originally practiced in Ghana, West Africa, and other parts of the world. It was originally popular in West Africa, Ghana and other places of a mysterious religion. 16th century, Haiti fell to the French colony, France's white colonialists to a large number of African slave trade to Haiti at the same time, but also popular in Africa's primitive religion brought to Haiti, and later these African slaves of the Roman Catholic Church many complicated religious rituals and the local local native religion mixing, will form a mysterious, bizarre, scary voodoo religion.

Voodoo teaches that everything under the sun is just an appearance, and that there is a more important soul force at work behind the scenes. At the head of this spirit world is a god named Rigelba, who is the medium between man and the spirits, and others such as the serpent god. The witches and warlocks, on the other hand, are the mediums between man and the gods. In the elaborate rituals of voodoo, prayers are offered to these gods for help during worship. The strange and bizarre midnight ritual ceremonies in voodoo are usually held in temples deep in the jungle. The ceremony begins with the high priest praying, reciting incantations and laying libations, then some spiritual symbols are drawn on the ground to offer to the gods, and finally other activities such as singing, drumming and dancing are performed.

Many Haitians believe that if they do not participate in voodoo rituals, they will inevitably fall victim to it. This fear and the invisible pressure of the surrounding groups have made voodoo mysterious in Haiti. The late Haitian dictator Duvalier is said to have used voodoo to confuse and fool the people in order to strengthen his rule. He claimed to have the power of the high priest and labeled the brutal and murderous secret police under his command as "voodoo masters". This reign of terror fueled the voodoo cult.

In the voodoo's evil behavior, the most hair-raising is to make "return the soul corpse". The so-called "soul corpse" refers to a kind of living dead between the critical state of life and death, that is, "walking dead". It is said that there are some secret organizations in voodoo, in which the sorcerer receives a certain amount of money from the master's family, then casts a poisonous spell on a designated living person to make him die, and then resurrects his corpse by applying the spell of returning the soul to him, turning him into a "living dead" who is unconscious, unconscious and able to work, and who is at the mercy of his master's slavery and dominion. Anthropologist Metro describes the reanimated corpse in his monograph, "Voodoo in Haiti," as follows: "He is cold, he can move, he can eat, he can follow his master's instructions, but he has no memory and is unaware of his surroundings."

Haitians tend to believe that voodoo has the magical power to bring the dead back to life. Warlocks steal the souls of dead bodies and then revive them as a reanimated corpse that can move but has no will. If proper measures are taken beforehand, the corpse is then at the mercy of its master and will do whatever he wants.

The sense of holding grudges out of love plays a very important part in voodoo, so one must always be careful not to offend those who are not to be trifled with.

It is said that a voodoo warlock courted a young girl, but the girl was already engaged to someone else and refused the warlock's request. Months later, legend has it that the maiden was seen with the warlock, but since there was no proof, the rumor was quickly forgotten. A few years later, the girl suddenly appeared in her own home, and it turned out that the warlock regretted what he had done and returned her soul to her body, bringing her back from the dead. Many people who attended the girl's funeral recognized her by the burn marks on her feet.

Belief in returning the soul to the corpse was not limited to superstitious peasants.

One day in 1959, a reanimated corpse is said to have walked into a Haitian village without San's knowledge and broken into the courtyard of a private home. The head of the family tied the body's hands and took it to the local police station. The police gave the corpse a glass of salt water to restore his sanity, and only then did they learn his name. They also learned that the corpse had an aunt who lived in the village and sent for her to assist in the investigation. Upon her arrival, the woman proved that the corpse was indeed her nephew, but that he had died four years ago and she had attended his funeral.

The corpse was questioned by the village's Catholic priest, who said that a local sorcerer was holding a number of corpses in captivity and that he was only one of them. When the police learned of this, they decided to return the corpse to the sorcerer because of the sorcerer's magic. But after two days, the poor guy was found dead. The police suspected that it was the evil sorcerer who wanted to take revenge on the soul-returning corpse for snitching on him and killed him, so they arrested the sorcerer. However, no other returning corpses were rescued, and it was later found out that it was the sorcerer's wife who had fled with them to the mountains.

In the past, foreigners who came to Haiti heard the local natives talk about "returning corpses", always thought it was just a legend or intimidation. But when they came to Haiti on a field trip, found that many locals in the burial of their relatives before, in order to fear and avoid them as a soul corpse, they often first cut the throat of the dead body, or in the heart of the nail on a large iron nail. This abnormal behavior has caused many scientists shocked and attention.

It is recorded that in 1930, the French anthropologist Derougy witnessed four strange people working in the fields in Haiti, "They were wearing tattered clothes made of sack pieces, their hands hanging limply at their sides, their faces and hands seemed to have no flesh, and their skin was attached to their bones like crumpled parchment." Later, he realized that these were reanimated corpses.

In 1982, the U.S. National Enquirer published a story about a black Haitian man named Narcisse who had been turned into a "reanimated corpse". In 1962, Narcisse was allegedly victimized by his brother's collusion with a shaman over a property dispute. He first fell ill inexplicably, then felt cold all over his body, heard the doctor announce that he was dead in a daze, felt that he had been buried in a grave, and then was taken to a farm with his hands tied to work with more than 100 other people who shared the same fate. Finally, one day, the foreman forgot to give him his medication, and he regained his senses and escaped. It wasn't until 1980, when he learned that his brother had died, that he returned to his hometown with mixed feelings. Later, the relevant experts at the Psychiatric Center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, conducted a thorough examination of Narcisse, and the final medical report was, "He has indeed been subjected to a reanimation technique."

So how do evil sorcerers cast spells that kill their victims and turn them into reanimated corpses so they can continue to control them in their work?

Some people believe that the victims were informed of their own brain curse, because the spirit suffered devastating destruction and fell into a state of seemingly dead, and then controlled by the sorcerers to become "walking corpses". But voodoo how to implement the control, how to make the victim back to the soul, people still do not understand.

In 2001, U.S. federal officials intercepted a suspicious package sent from Japan to a private home in the U.S. that contained several glass bottles of white crystal powder. At first, federal officials were so excited that they thought they had seized a shipment of heroin. However, initial identification at the scene indicated that it was not drugs. To err on the side of caution, federal officials sent the samples to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, where experts were asked to identify the samples. The results were shocking; the powder turned out to be one of the world's deadliest poisons --

Tetrodotoxin, which goes by the acronym TTX, and one gram of tetrodotoxin is 10,000 times more toxic than one gram of cyanide.

In fact, long ago East Asians were well aware of the toxicity of tetrodotoxin, as people who ventured to taste the delicious flavor of river veins often died of poisoning. The toxin is a cause for alarm ---

Once accidentally ingested, after 25 minutes, the victim suffers nerve paralysis and usually dies within a few hours due to asphyxiation or heart failure, for which there is no cure at present. Strangely enough, the brain of the victim remains fully conscious throughout the process. But if they survive the 24-hour period, they return to normal quickly and without complications.

In 1982, the United States, Harvard University botanist Wade Davis and the Department of Physiology experts, this long-term research, but also spend money to buy the local sorcerer's "soul-returning powder", through its pharmacological analysis of the Haitian sorcerer, most of the use of tetrodotoxin or toad toxin to make the so-called "soul-returning powder", the pharmacological analysis of the Haitian sorcerer. After analyzing their pharmacology, it is believed that most Haitian shamans use tetrodotoxin or toadstool toxin to make so-called "soul-returning powders", which are capable of affecting the dysfunction of the heart or the nervous system. Victims who accidentally ingest or come into contact with these powders appear to be in a state of pseudo-death and are assumed to be dead and buried in their graves. Then the sorcerer digs them out of their graves and gives them some antidotes and anesthetics to wake them up, and the victims become reanimated corpses at the mercy of others.

But how voodoo revives victims and continues to control them remains unknown to outsiders, including medical doctors and psychologists.

The mystery of voodoo remains to be explored.