Voodoo Families

Louisiana (New Orleans) voodoo

Dolls and talismans. Voodoo may use unique dolls (volts), but their role is not limited to causing harm. They are more often used for healing, communicating with spirits, or summoning loa. Talismans—gris-gris, small bags containing various items (herbs, stones, oils, etc.)—are also common. Belief in spirits. Voodoo followers believe in the existence of an invisible world inhabited by spirits, angels, and the ghosts of ancestors.
Loa are intermediary spirits. Rituals address not the supreme deity, but rather minor spirits—loa. They are associated with nature, crafts, love, death, the sea, war, family, and other aspects of life. Each loa has its own character, favorite colors, songs, offerings, and symbols. Rituals are a key part of the practice. Ceremonies with music, dance, and drum rhythms are a key part of the practice. During rituals, a state of spirit possession can occur: adherents believe that a loa can enter a person and speak through them.
Houngan (male) and mambo (female) are the actual priests and priestesses. Their main task is to act as intermediaries between people and spirits (loa).
Hounsi are helpers. They participate in ceremonies: cleaning the shrine and assisting with offerings (including animal sacrifices).
A bokor is a special figure. It's the name given to someone who professionally practices magic, including what is traditionally considered "black magic." Importantly, bokors are not always recognized by houngans and mambos as full-fledged practitioners of voodoo.
Unlike other religions, profanity, lust, and other human traits are permitted; the idea of ​​voodoo is freedom! But swearing is prohibited during rituals.

The loa only possesses during a ritual! This is impossible in everyday life.
signs:

• blank look
• sometimes laughter without reason in particularly emotional people
• hands are shaking
• enchanted voice as if in a trance
• inhibition.

(After a possession ritual, you may temporarily experience qualities/effects associated with the loa. For example, if working with Papa Gede, you may feel a desire to go to the cemetery or drowsiness. Or, for example, with Baron Samedi, you may feel sexual arousal or drunken exhilaration. The effect eventually wears off after about half an hour to an hour.)

At the same time, a person realizes that he is not alone in his body, and in fact, he is aware of everything.

• sometimes they swear among themselves in Spanish when they want to hide something from strangers.
• American, Spanish, African American roots.
• The Wood family and the Laveau family believe in the voodoo religion, and consider Baron Saturday, Mom Bridget, and Dad Gede to be their favorites.
• family members love obscene and black humor.
  The Wood family once had twins, a brown-haired Mara and a red-haired Mora. They were always strange and loved the dark traditions of voodoo, despite looking and acting like sweet girls. Mara was cold, while Mora was emotional. The twins died at the age of 16. Since then, they have been able to visit relatives through rituals with loa (spirits).

Children:
Charlie - 17 years old, shy, kind, voodoo altar boy, blond, green eyes, friend of Zoro and Arena, most often modest, always ready to help, resembles a white lamb, perhaps too innocent but somehow copes with the voodoo religion.
Ray - girl, chestnut-blue bob, tanned, daring and cool, dark voodoo witch (bokor woman), 17 years old.
Aren is dark-skinned, tall, has dreadlocks, a scar on his lip, is strong, cheerful, loves risks, and is a friend of Zoro and Carla. He is 19 years old.
Noah, Loy, Roy - triplets, dark-skinned, 9 years old, hooligans, very similar
Linda - blonde, brown eyes, light mambo, healer, caring, nerd, has glasses, 22 years old.
Maryana - black hair in a bob, nose piercing, dark skin, light mambo (priestess) and light witch, 24 years old, Kai's wife, cheerful and playful.
parents:
Ural is a cheerful, strong man, a senior bokor, mustache and beard, dark skin, hair in a ponytail, the father of the Lavos family, Herman's best friend, 47 years old.
Katrina is the mother of the Laveau family, a very good cook, cheerful, multi-talented, cool, bob haircut, headscarf, dark skin, 43 years old.

Wood family:
children (from 17 to 26 years old):
Zoro - short black-brown hair, tanned skin, baggy jeans and a burgundy plaid shirt, small earrings, wild and carefree, bokor, 17 years old
Cupid - black hair, blue eyes, black shirt, black pants, purple beads, pale, serious and cold, hungan si pwen, 19 years old, a little hot-tempered
Agwa - brown hair, black eyes, black clothes, pale, rough but cheerful, mambo Si pwen, 19 years old
Kai - tall, brown-haired, pale, black turtleneck, wide jeans, beads, calm, cheerful, rude, bokor, 25 years old, Maryana's husband.
Onyx - dark-skinned, tall, well-shaped, hair in afro braids, purple and black dancer's costume, playful and dreamy, dancer, 21 years old
Charlotte - blonde, blue eyes, wavy bob, long black dress, shy and timid, 17 years old
parents:
Samara is a brunette in a red dress, dark-skinned, homely and cheerful, the eldest mambo, 46 ​​years old, the mother of the Wood family.
German is a strong, dark-haired man, tall, rough, but loving. The eldest hungan, 48 years old, a cheerful man, Ural's best friend, and the father of the Wood family.