Akodessawa Fetish Market

The Akodessawa Fetish Market (French: Marché des Féticheurs) is located at Akodessawa, which is a district of Lomé, the capital of Togo in West Africa. The Akodessawa Fetish Market is the world's largest voodoo market.^[1]^[2]

The market sells fetishes used in vodún religious practice such as monkey heads, skulls, dead birds, crocodiles, skins and other products of dead animals.

Voodoo

Voodoo has a long tradition in Togo. Centuries ago, slaves from Africa brought Yoruba gods to the Caribbean and South America. There it came to mixing of African gods with the saints of Christianity and the symbols of the Catholic Church. In course of time they changed their meaning. When former slaves and their families migrated to West Africa they developed a voodoo cult in the country of origin of their families.^{[citation needed]}

Fetish

The fetish is comparable to the Orisha of Yoruba. A fetish can be God, but also human, plant, animal or material. This depends on the ritual and the situation. In the ritual, the fetish is activated and strengthened. Fetishes may have been.^{[citation needed]}

Literature

Voodoo Africaá Secret Power, 1980, ISBN 978-3853990131
Afrika. Die Magier der Erde, Studienverlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-7065-4983-7
The Last Africans, 1977, ISBN 978-3853990025
Afrika, Asien- Kunst- und Ritualobjekte, 1997, ISBN 3-85218-244-1
Die Medizin der schwarzen Götter, 1997, ISBN 3-85218-258-1
Die Medizin der schwarzen Götter: Magie und Heilkunst Afrikas, 1989, ISBN 3-224-16571-5

References

^ Roderick Eime (AAP): Fetish central: Akodessewa Fetish Market, in Togo, West Africa – the home of the $20 voodoo doll. Daily Telegraph, 14. März 2016
^ "Fetish Market" – Der größte Voodoo-Markt der Welt. Archived 2016-09-25 at the Wayback Machine Terra Mystica, 9. März 2015

External links

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[1] Roderick Eime (AAP): Fetish central: Akodessewa Fetish Market, in Togo, West Africa – the home of the $20 voodoo doll. Daily Telegraph, 14. März 2016

[2] "Fetish Market" – Der größte Voodoo-Markt der Welt. Archived 2016-09-25 at the Wayback Machine Terra Mystica, 9. März 2015

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