Lux Ferre

La Sirène: Mermaid Lwa of Mystery, Wealth, Dreams and the Deep Sea La Sirène is one of the most enchanting and mysterious spirits in Haitian Vodou. Her name literally means “the mermaid,”

You don’t have to be human to be a magician. Simbi, among the greatest of all magicians, is a water snake spirit who rules all aspects of magic. He protects magical practitioners

Silibo In his book, Ecstatic Voyage, seventeenth-century German scholar Athanasius Kircher describes the sun as populated “with angels of fire swimming in seas of light around a volcano.” He may have been

Sili Kenwa is a Dominican manifestation of the lwa known in Haiti as Ezili Coeur Noir, or “Black Hearted Ezili”. Sili Kenwa is syncretized to Saint Martha. In accordance with Iberian customs,

Rada Spirits The Rada lwa are among the two primary Haitian Vodou pantheons. (The other is the Petro lwa.) Most Rada spirits hail directly from Africa, mostly from Dahomey, now called Benin.

Ogun is the West African spirit of iron. He is iron. Hold a knife or horseshoe in your hand and you hold Ogun.

Marinette Marinette is one of the most mysterious and feared spirits within Haitian Vodou. She belongs especially to the Petro and Bizango currents, where the spirits are often fiery, intense, secretive, and

The Marassa, Vodou’s sacred twins, are spirits of paradox: They are two distinct bodies who share one soul (or they are one soul with two bodies). They are opposites who are simultaneously