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The Quick and the Dead -- The Souls of Man in Vodou Thought
http://r.hodges.home.comcast.net/QandD.htmlEssay by Richard Hodges on the Vodou concept of "soul." Vodou recognizes three spiritual components which together with the physical body make up a man: the ti-bonanj (petit bon ange) "little angel," gwo-bonanj (gros bon ange) "big angel," and mt-tt (maitre tet) "master of the head."
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