Voodoo Market In Lomé

[joggerjayne]

Why did I not know about this place before?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/africa_togo0s_voodoo_market/html/1.stm

I need to go there, to pick up a few bits for our Voodoo celebrations. You can get some stuff in The Lanes, but dead animal heads are a bit hard to come by.

[sandyRoe]

You could buy a pigs head in the butchers.

[DaisyNonna]

Thankfully

[sandyRoe]

I notice one of the pics shows a Chimps hand. :-( It would look much better attached to a live animal.

[joggerjayne]

Pigs heads are not so good for voodoo.

They just make everyone think about hog roasts.

It's hard to worship the loa of Bondye when you're thinking about pork rolls and apple sauce.

[sandyRoe]

Our coven stopped using them when someone remarked how like Ted Heath's head it was.
That's going back quite a while, of course.

[sandyRoe]

https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRl2U_2kmAUdf1vBR_QimmrOYa4pJhm4r7K8_hbsg8RqqlxeKiC
I think you can see what they meant

[anneasquith]

he did have a ruddy complexion. liked a tipple.........maybe.?

[sandyRoe]

He wasn't a famous boozer like George Browne or Churchill. It's just that he had a porcine look about him.

[jno]

the story appears to be 10 years old, so I don't know how you missed it in your voodoo researches.

There's a market in Bolivia where you can get llama foetuses to put in the foundations of your new home, to ensure prosperity. It's whispered that similar sacrifices occurred in Europe too. Sometimes in old houses you find children's shoes in the brickwork, which is a less lethal version of the same thing.

[Dee Sa]

Love potion number 9, is that on sale ?