“Vodou comes from the enslaved people of Africa… They walked all over the world and came here to our land. This is the way we came to have the vodou spirit within us.”

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Manbo Katy (mahn-bow kay-tee)

healer & priestess

IMAGE SOURCE: Photo by Stephanie Mei-Ling in Antonia Blumberg, “Inside The Life Of A Vodou Priestess Bringing Healing To Haiti.” Huff Post. 28 Apr. 2016. | TEXT SOURCE: “Meet the Vodou Priestess Summoning Healing Spirits in Post-Earthquake Haiti.” D…

IMAGE SOURCE: Photo by Stephanie Mei-Ling in Antonia Blumberg, “Inside The Life Of A Vodou Priestess Bringing Healing To Haiti.” Huff Post. 28 Apr. 2016. | TEXT SOURCE: “Meet the Vodou Priestess Summoning Healing Spirits in Post-Earthquake Haiti.” Dir. Lucy Walker. Broadly Documentary Video. YouTube. 26 Apr. 2016.

QUOTE CONTEXT: “In the years since the 2010 Haiti earthquake, which displaced more than a million people, the priestess has worked to bring both spiritual and physical healing to her community, while carrying on the centuries-old tradition of Vodou worship.”

QUOTE QUESTION: How did your ancestors come to the land where you live?

IMAGE CONTEXT: “Manbo Katy is a second-generation Vodou healer.”

IMAGE QUESTION: What conditions are required to enable the spirit to rise within you?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote is from an online video and the  photo is from a blog post.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: How do you decide whether or not to spread the words and images of your People online?

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