Haitian Vodou

Haitian Vodou

       A long wiki link on the subject can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Vodou

            Poster's comments:

            The idea of voodoo was still a real fear in rural South Carolina where I used to work about ten years ago (circa 2000).

            Many women would not deliver warm and cooked food to a hunting camp because "there was voodoo in the woods".  At a minimum, I had to agree to send a male guard along to get the delivery done.

            A male I trusted a lot feared getting a curse put on him for a variety of reasons. And he even feared becoming sterile if a badger were to pass under him while he was straddling a wet ditch.

            A local AM radio station in nearby Augusta, Georgia, advertised getting a voodoo curse removed, for money of course.

            A key point for future leaders is to listen to your employees, and if any belief, like voodoo, is real to them, then it is suggested that one should add that thought into your own calculations. Those that simply laugh at "their ignorant" employees, do so at their own peril.

            Other traditions that came over from the "old country", like "swept yards" I always thought were pretty smart vice just being a symbol of some poor rural share cropper. For example, snakes were then easy to see, and generally avoided these kinds of areas.