My KSD Story–Part III

 

I wrote my old blog about My KSD Story and Christmas Break 1974 Part II.

 

I loved my old year of 1974 before 1975 came to me.   I stayed with my Hisel and Peterson families during Christmas Break.   I remembered and saw my Young Parents’ painful conversation inside our old red car on the parking of the Dillions (Food Supermarket’ name) during night time.   

My Dad was young boy and used to live with my Grandparents Hisel’s 40 Years Old House on the Richmond Street  before the Dillions Company offered a huge payment to my Grandparents for destroy their house before the Dillions started to build new store and parking.  Grandparents moved their things to their temporary mobile home until they purchased their second small house and third big house at the Athenian Street.

I remembered about my Grandparents’ temporary mobile home was in front of the Elementary School on the road.  I did not go to the school from the mobile home.  I was in my old hearing school, Institute of Logistic during time of the mobile home years.

I wrote about my KSD Story including My Grandma Peterson, Young Parents and I visited to Kansas School for the Deaf where we arrived at the Emery Hall Elementary School last Spring 1974.   I left my old hearing school before moved to KSD last Fall 1974.

I want to write about my Grandparents Hisel’s Temporary Mobile Home.   I stayed inside their mobile home most time during couple years of my old hearing school time.   I watched my Grandma’s homemaking life while Grandpa worked at his job, Santa Fe Train.   I enjoyed playing with my G.I. Dolls in the Living Room while Grandma was doing something in the kitchen and laundry hall.   I saw everything like 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, kitchen and living room especially two small black dog and brown dog.  What did two small dogs look like? Chihuahua.  I really loved them but they were harsh and keep bark at me because they dislike small kids like me.

My Grandparents asked my Young Parents and Uncle Jack and Aunt Lois Hisel’s family to come from Topeka, Kansas and celebrate on my Grandma and my Birthdays in their Mobile Home on November 1973 before Uncle Jack started to film his camera to me and my Grandma with our Birthday Cake on the Bird Bath before Grandparents borrowed my Uncle Jack’s film camera and started to take their first trip to Holy Land in Israel and Greece while I was in KSD during Fall 1974.

I had best memories with my Grandparents Hisel’s Mobile Home years.  I think those Mobile Home may or may not be here anymore after Grandparents Hisel lend their Mobile Home to Renters for a while before sold out. Retired Grandparents finally settled to live their third house on Athenian Street during my KSD Years.

To Be Continued… 

Certificado del Presidente Obama de nacido vivo es real ....

 

Ahora, nuestros ciudadanos estadounidenses y que aprendo y testigo en el Blog Oficial de la Casa Blanca después de que el PDF Nuevo Certificado del presidente Obama de Nacimiento en vivo desde su ciudad natal, Honolulu, Hawaii. Él nació el 4 de agosto de 1961. Su verdadero padre nació en Kenia y real madre nació en Wichita, Kansas. Ellos fueron los padres jóvenes cuando tenía 25 años y ella tenía 18 años.
Me complace ver el PDF de nuestro Presidente Obama certificado de nacido vivo. He nacido en mi ciudad natal, de Wichita, Kansas, donde Barack H. Obama 's madre, Stanley Ann Dunham, nació allí.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/04/27/remarks-president

Puede hacer clic en este enlace marcador rojo tras el blog oficial del sitio web de la Casa Blanca como el Video del mensaje del Presidente Obama y PDF del certificado de Obama Presidente de Nacido Vivo con el Estado de Hawaii.

¡Muchas gracias! Dios bendiga a Estados Unidos.

President Obama’s Certificate of Live Birth Is Real…….

 

Now, Our American Citizens and I learn and witness on the Official Blog of the White House after the PDF posted President Obama’s Certificate of Birth Live from his hometown, Honolulu, Hawaii.  He born on August 4, 1961.   His real Father born in Kenya and real Mother born in Wichita, Kansas.  They were young parents when he was 25 and she was 18.

I am pleased to see the PDF of our President Obama’s Certificate of Birth Live.  I born in my hometown, Wichita, Kansas where Barack H. Obama’s Mother, Stanley Ann Dunham born in there.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/27/president-obamas-long-form-birth-certificate

You may click this red marker link following the Official Blog of the White House Website including the Video of President Obama’s Message and PDF of the President Obama’s Certificate of Live Birth with State of Hawaii.

Thank you so much!  God bless America.

Hisel Family Crest and Name History

Origin Displayed:  English

Where did English Hisel Family come from? What is the English Hisel Family Crest and Coat of Arms? When did the Hisel Family first arrive in the United States?  Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Hisel family history?


The name Hisel came to England with the ancestors of the Hisel family in the Norman Conquest of 1066.  The Hisel family lived in Cheshire.  This name however, is topographic reference indicating that the original bearer lived in close proximity to a hazel tree or grove.

Cheshire, England

Norman Conquest

The death of Edward 'the Confessor', king of England, initated a brief period of conflict between the various claimants to his throne that irrevocably changed the country of England.  Immediately following the death of Edward, Earl Harold Godwinson was elected and coronated king by the English nobility, and he became known as King Harold II.

Harold Godwinson (or Harold II) (Old English: Harold Gōdwines sunu) (c. 1022 – 14 October 1066) was the last Anglo-Saxon King of England. Harold reigned from 6 January 1066 until his death at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October of that same year, fighting the Norman invaders led by William the Conqueror during the Norman conquest of England. Harold is one of only three Kings of England to have died in warfare; the other two were Richard the Lionheart and Richard III.

Harold was a son of Godwin, the powerful Earl of Wessex, and his wife Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, whose supposed brother Ulf Jarl was the son-in-law of Sweyn I and the father of Sweyn II of Denmark.
Godwin and Gytha had several children, notably sons Sweyn, Harold, Tostig, Gyrth and Leofwine and a daughter, Edith of Wessex (1029–1075), who became Queen consort of Edward the Confessor.

Battle of Hastings

On 12 September William's fleet sailed. Several ships sank in storms and the fleet was forced to take shelter at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme and wait for the wind to change. On 27 September the Norman fleet finally set sail for England arriving it is believed the following day at Pevensey on the coast of East Sussex. Harold now again forced his army to march 241 miles (386 kilometres) to intercept William, who had landed perhaps 7000 men in Sussex, southern England. Harold established his army in hastily built earthworks near Hastings. The two armies clashed at the Battle of Hastings, at Senlac Hill (near the present town of Battle) close by Hastings on 14 October, where after nine hours of hard fighting and probably less than 30 minutes from victory Harold was killed and his forces routed. His brothers Gyrth and Leofwine were also killed in the battle.

Death

The account of the battle Carmen de Hastingae Proelio (the Song of the Battle of Hastings), said to have been written shortly after the battle by Guy, Bishop of Amiens, says that Harold was killed by four knights, probably including Duke William, and his body brutally dismembered. Amatus of Montecassino's L'Ystoire de li Normant (History of the Normans), written thirty years after the battle of Hastings, is the first report of Harold being shot in the eye with an arrow. Later accounts reflect one or both of these two versions. A figure in the panel of the Bayeux Tapestry with the inscription "Harold Rex Interfectus Est" (Harold the King is killed) is depicted gripping an arrow that has struck his eye, but some historians have questioned whether this man is intended to be Harold, or if Harold is intended as the next figure lying to the right almost prone, being mutilated beneath a horse's hooves. Etchings made of the Tapestry in the 1730s show the standing figure with differing objects. Benoît's 1729 sketch shows only a dotted line indicating stitch marks without any indication of fletching (all other arrows in the Tapestry are fletched). Bernard de Montfaucon's 1730 engraving has a solid line resembling a spear being held overhand matching the manner of the figure to the left. Stothard's 1819 water-color drawing has, for the first time, a fletched arrow in the figure's eye. Although not apparent in the earlier depictions, the Tapestry today has stitch marks indicating the fallen figure once had an arrow in its eye. It has been proposed that the second figure once had an arrow added by over-enthusiastic nineteenth-century restorers that was later unstitched. A further suggestion is that both accounts are accurate, and that Harold suffered first the eye wound, then the mutilation, and the Tapestry is depicting both in sequence.

Burial of King Harold II

Burial

The account of the contemporary chronicler William of Poitiers, states that the body of Harold was given to William Malet for burial:

"The two brothers of the King were found near him and Harold himself, stripped of all badges of honour, could not be identified by his face but only by certain marks on his body. His corpse was brought into the Duke's camp, and William gave it for burial to to William, surnamed Malet, and not to Harold's mother, who offered for the body of her beloved son its weight in gold. For the Duke thought it unseemly to receive money for such merchandise, and equally he considered it wrong that Harold should be buried as his mother wished, since so many men lay unburied because of his avarice. They said in jest that he who had guarded the coast with such insensate zeal should be buried by the seashore".

Another source states that Harold's wife, Edith Swannesha, was called to identify the body, which she did by some private mark known only to herself. Harold's strong association with Bosham, his birthplace, and the discovery in 1954 of an Anglo-Saxon coffin in the church there, has led some to suggest it as the place of King Harold's burial. A request to exhume a grave in Bosham church was refused by the Diocese of Chichester in December 2003, the Chancellor having ruled that the chances of establishing the identity of the body as Harold's were too slim to justify disturbing a burial place.  A prior exhumation had revealed the remains of a man, estimated at up to 60 years of age from photographs of the remains, lacking a head, one leg and the lower part of his other leg, a description consistent with the fate of the king as recorded in the Carmen. The poem also claims Harold was buried by the sea which is consistent with William of Poitier's account and with the identification of the grave at Bosham Church which is only yards from Chichester Harbour and in sight of the English Channel.
There were legends of Harold's body being given a proper funeral years later in his church of Waltham Holy Cross in Essex, which he had refounded in 1060.  There is a legend that Henry I of England met an elderly monk at Waltham Abbey, who was in fact a very old Harold. King Harold had a son posthumously, called Harold Haroldsson, who may have been this man, and may also be the occupant of the grave.


To Be Continued

Hisel Cresta de Familia e Historia Nombre

Origen Se ha visto: Inglés

¿Dónde está el Inglés Hisel Familia viene? ¿Cuál es el Inglés Hisel escudo de la familia y el costo de las armas? ¿Cuándo la Familia Hisel llegan por primera vez en los Estados Unidos? ¿De dónde las diversas ramas de la familia a ir? ¿Cuál es la historia Hisel Famly?

El nombre Hisel llegó a Inglaterra con los ancestros de la familia Hisel en la conquista normanda de 1066. La familia vivía en Hisel Chehire. El nombre sin embargo, es portador de toographic indicatingg que el portador original vivió cerca de un árbol o bosque de avellanos.

El nombre Hisel llegó a Inglaterra con los antepasados ​​de la familia Hisel en la conquista normanda de 1066. La familia vivía Hisel en Cheshire. Este nombre, sin embargo, es la referencia topográfica que indica que el portador original vivió cerca de un árbol o bosque de avellanos.

Cheshire, England

Conquista normanda

La muerte de Edward el Confesor, rey de Inglaterra, initated un breve período de conflicto entre los diversos reclamantes a su trono que ha cambiado irrevocablemente el país de Inglaterra. Inmediatamente después de la muerte de Edward, Earl Harold Godwinson fue elegido y coronado rey por la nobleza Inglés, uno llegó a ser conocido como el rey Harold II.

Harold Godwinson (o Harold II) (Inglés Antiguo: Harold Gōdwines Sunu). (c. 1022 - 14 de octubre 1066) fue el último rey anglosajón de Inglaterra Harold [1] reinó desde el 06 de enero 1066 [2] hasta su muerte a la Batalla de Hastings, el 14 de octubre de ese mismo año, la lucha contra los invasores normandos encabezados por Guillermo el Conquistador en la conquista normanda de Inglaterra. Harold es uno de los tres reyes de Inglaterra que han muerto en la guerra y los otros dos fueron Ricardo Corazón de León y Ricardo III.

Harold era un hijo de Godwin, el poderoso conde de Wessex, y su esposa Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, cuya supuesta hermano Ulf Jarl era el hijo-en-ley de Sweyn I y el padre de Svend II de Dinamarca.

Godwin y Gytha había varios niños, en particular los hijos de Sweyn, Harold, Tostig, Gyrth y Leofwine y una hija, Edith de Wessex (1029-1075), quien se convirtió en reina consorte de Eduardo el Confesor.

Moneda del rey Harold II

Batalla de Hastings

El 12 de septiembre la flota de Guillermo zarpó.  Varios barcos se hundieron en las tormentas y la flota se vio obligado a buscar refugio en Saint-Valery-sur-Somme-y esperar a que el viento de cambio. El 27 de septiembre la flota Norman finalmente zarpó de Inglaterra se cree que llegan al día siguiente a Pevensey en la costa de East Sussex. Harold ahora de nuevo obligó a su ejército para marchar 241 millas (386 kilómetros) para interceptar Guillermo, que había aterrizado tal vez 7.000 hombres en Sussex, al sur de Inglaterra. Harold sede de su ejército en terraplenes construidos a toda prisa cerca de Hastings. Los dos ejércitos se enfrentaron en la Batalla de Hastings, en Senlac Hill (cerca del actual pueblo de Battle), cerca de Hastings el 14 de octubre, donde después de nueve horas de lucha dura y probablemente menos de 30 minutos de la victoria de Harold fue asesinado y sus fuerzas enrutado. Sus hermanos Gyrth y Leofwine también murieron en la batalla.

Muerte

El relato de la batalla de Carmen de Hastingae Proelio (la canción de la Batalla de Hastings), dice que fue escrita poco después de la batalla por Guy, obispo de Amiens, dice que Harold fue asesinado por cuatro caballeros, probablemente incluyendo el duque Guillermo, y su cuerpo brutalmente desmembrado. Amatus de Montecassino de L'Ystoire de li Normant (Historia de los normandos), escrito treinta años después de la batalla de Hastings, es el primer informe de tiro Harold estar en el ojo con una flecha. Más tarde, las cuentas reflejan una o ambas de estas dos versiones. Una figura en el panel del tapiz de Bayeux con la inscripción "Rex Harold Interfectus Est" (el rey Harold muere) se representa agarrando una flecha que ha golpeado el ojo, pero algunos historiadores han cuestionado si este hombre está destinado a ser Harold, o si Harold es considerado como la figura siguiente se encuentra a la derecha casi en decúbito prono, siendo mutilados por debajo de los cascos de un caballo. Los grabados realizados de la tapicería en la década de 1730 muestran la figura de pie con diferentes objetos. 1729 Benoît de boceto muestra sólo una línea de puntos que indican las marcas de la puntada sin ninguna indicación de emplumado (todas las otras flechas en la tapicería son emplumadas). 1730 Bernard de Montfaucon de grabado tiene una línea sólida se asemeja a una lanza que se celebra encima de la cabeza a juego la forma de la figura de la izquierda. 1819 Stothard de acuarela tiene, por primera vez, una flecha ornamentada en el ojo de la figura. Aunque no es evidente en las representaciones anteriores, el día de hoy tapiz tiene marcas de punto que indica la cifra había caído una vez una flecha en su ojo. Se ha propuesto que la segunda figura, una vez había una flecha añadida por restauradores del siglo XIX-más entusiasta que fue descosido más tarde. Otra sugerencia es que ambas cuentas son exactas, y que Harold sufrió primero la herida del ojo, entonces el la mutilación y la tapicería es que representa tanto en secuencia.

El entierro del rey Harold II

Entierro

El relato del cronista contemporáneo Guillermo de Poitiers, afirma que el cuerpo de Harold se le dio a Guillermo Malet para el entierro:

"Los dos hermanos del rey se encontraron cerca de él y Harold sí mismo, despojado de todas las medallas de honor, no pudo ser identificado por su cara, pero sólo por ciertas marcas en su cuerpo. Su cadáver fue llevado al campamento del duque, y se entregó a Guillermo que para el entierro de William, de apellido Malet, y no a la madre de Harold, quien ofreció para el cuerpo de su amado hijo de su peso en oro. Para el duque pareció indecoroso para recibir dinero para dicha mercancía, e igualmente se consideró incorrecto que Harold debe ser enterrado como su madre deseaba, ya tantos hombres yacía insepulto por su avaricia. Ellos dijeron en broma que el que había guardado la costa con tal celo insensato debe ser enterrado a orillas del mar ".
Otra fuente afirma que la esposa de Harold, Edith Swannesha, fue llamado a identificar el cuerpo, lo que hizo por alguna marca privada conocida sólo para sí misma. fuerte asociación con Harold Bosham, su lugar de nacimiento, y el descubrimiento en 1954 de un ataúd de anglo-sajón en la iglesia, ha llevado a algunos a sugerir, en el lugar de entierro del Rey Harold. La solicitud para exhumar una fosa en la iglesia Bosham fue rechazada por la diócesis de Chichester, en diciembre de 2003, el Canciller haber descartado que las posibilidades de establecer la identidad del cuerpo como Harold eran demasiado escasas para justificar perturbe un lugar de enterramiento.  Exhumación antes había revelado los restos de un hombre, que se estima en hasta 60 años de edad a partir de fotografías de los restos, a falta de una cabeza, una pierna y la parte inferior de su otra pierna, una descripción coherente con el destino del rey según consta en el Carmen. El poema también afirma Harold fue enterrado junto al mar que es coherente con Guillermo de Poitiers y cuenta con la identificación de la tumba en Bosham Iglesia que está a unos metros de Chichester Harbour y la vista del Canal Inglés.
Había leyendas del cuerpo de Harold está dando un año funeral apropiado más adelante en su iglesia de Waltham Holy Cross en Essex, que había refundado en 1060.  Hay una leyenda que Enrique I de Inglaterra se encontró con un anciano monje en Waltham Abbey, que era en realidad una vieja Harold. Rey Harold tuvo un hijo póstumo, llamado Harold Haroldsson, que pudo haber sido este hombre, y también puede ser el ocupante de la tumba.

Continuará

New York Times: Voodoo, an Anchor, Rises Again

Hello Friends and Family,

I read this website of New York Times following above the headline.  I remembered about year of '90s, I visited to the Deaf Liberty Baptist Church in Overland Park, Kansas, We were in a crowd of small audience and listened to our deaf Pastor, Rev. David Hanson's sermon.  I saw his ASL (American Sign Language) expression and word, "Voodoo" when I started to laugh loudly over him as same as his hearing young daughter heard my voice.  I tried to believe in fact of evil stuff until I realized with deaf mid-aged Latina lady's non-fiction message after I listened to Rev. Hanson's true message saying "Voodoo related to evil things in verse of the Bible." 

She explained me about what does the "Voodoo's action start...for example, someone steal other person's hair, piece of dress and photo before send them to the voodoo ceremony before some High Priests spoke and prayed to the alter before the evil spirits start to fly, attack and kill this person in somewhere in New York City."

I questioned to her, "Can FBI and NYPD Agents find and capture the evidence of voodoo?".  She told me, "That was very hard and difficult for FBI and NYPD to find evidence."   Quietly, I realized her well. 

Here is a true article from the New York City Times....

A woman possessed by Freda, the spirit of love, at a voodoo marriage ceremony

IT was past 3 a.m. in a dim basement in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and Jack Laroche, a Haitian-American computer engineer, nervously awaited his bride: a voodoo spirit named Ezili Freda who believers say has the power to lavish love and wealth and render wayward spouses impotent.


As four drummers pounded rhythmically, voodoo priestesses in bright-colored dresses danced in ecstatic circles, dousing the floor with rum and chanting, “Ayibobo!” — the voodoo “amen.” The bride’s dramatic entrance was signaled when a priestess in a shimmering pink silk dress started trembling violently, her eyes rolling toward the back of her head before she fainted. When she came to, apparently possessed by Ezili Freda, she took Mr. Laroche’s hand and nibbled on his ear coquettishly before the happy couple exchanged vows in French.

Long misunderstood and maligned in Western popular culture, voodoo has become a spiritual anchor in New York City’s vast Haitian community and in Haitian enclaves across the country as practitioners look for comfort after the devastating earthquake in the impoverished Caribbean nation last year.

In New York, where there are roughly 300,000 people who were born in Haiti or are of Haitian descent — the largest concentration in the United States — richly painted basement voodoo temples are sprinkled around Harlem and in parts of Brooklyn and Queens. Mambos, or voodoo priestesses, say they can barely keep up with “demann,” or prayer requests; spiritual love recipes to lure recalcitrant lovers are the most popular. Voodoo prayer circles in which practitioners meet to commiserate have also proliferated, with a notable intensity in the months since the earthquake.

But the world of voodoo has fallen under an unwelcome spotlight in recent weeks as a result of two episodes in which the authorities say voodoo played a central role — a fatal five-alarm fire in Brooklyn and the coming trial in Queens of a woman accused of severely burning her daughter.

The fire, in a building in Flatbush in February, was ignited by candles surrounding a bed during a ceremony in the apartment of a voodoo priest who the authorities said was hired by a woman to chase away evil spirits. The fire killed a 64-year-old woman in another apartment and left dozens of tenants homeless.

In Queens, a Haitian immigrant, Marie Lauradin, 29, is to go on trial this summer because prosecutors say she performed a voodoo exorcism ritual two years ago during which she lighted a flammable liquid in the form of a circle on a floor and placed her 6-year-old daughter, Frantzcia, within it, engulfing her in flames. Ms. Lauradin is charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

The child’s grandmother Sylvenie Thessier, 72, whom prosecutors accused of doing nothing while her granddaughter was burned, was sentenced last week to one to three years in prison after pleading guilty to reckless endangerment.

The episodes have shaken the tight-knit and largely secretive voodoo community in New York, and practitioners say they were aberrant acts perpetrated by ignorant people who were abusing the religion.

Dowoti Desir, a Haitian-American voodoo scholar who has a temple in her home in Harlem, said the episodes were contributing to the demonization of voodoo and forcing people to practice it underground.

“Voodoo practitioners are in the closet for fear of being hounded or suffering reprisals,” she said. “The truth is that voodoo has been a source of empowerment for generations of Haitians.” (Many practitioners and scholars prefer alternate renderings of the word “voodoo,” like “voudou” or “vodun,” which they say more accurately reflect its origins.)

Some people are turning to voodoo in response to financial hardships caused by the recession. And among younger Haitian-Americans, voodoo is a means to reconnect with their roots.

Mr. Laroche, 35, nattily dressed for his marriage ceremony, said he had decided to exchange vows with his spirit bride in search of cultural affirmation, career advancement and protection from affliction, financial or otherwise. “There is a misconception that if you practice voodoo you can turn your friends into goats,” Mr. Laroche said. “But voodoo is about getting back in touch with the past.”

In voodoo, a healing-based religion that was brought to Haiti by slaves from Western and Central Africa, followers commune with one God — Gran Met — by worshiping potent and sometimes temperamental lwas, or spirits, believed to hold sway over love, morality, reproduction and death.

According to scholars, up to half of all Haitians practice some form of voodoo, often in conjunction with Catholicism, which intermingled with the belief systems of enslaved West Africans when Haiti was a French colony.

Yet because the religion is often practiced furtively in basement temples, and because of its emphasis on spirits, spells and animal sacrifices, it has been stigmatized as primitive.

But scholars stress that voodoo has played a central role in Haitian history, sustaining people who have endured oppressive governments, grinding poverty and natural calamities.

Ms. Desir, a former professor in the Africana studies department at Brooklyn College, says voodoo has been vilified by Western culture going back to 1791, when a voodoo ceremony helped inspire slaves to rebel against their French colonial oppressors, sparking the Haitian Revolution.

Voodoo’s reputation inside and outside Haiti also suffered during the regime of François Duvalier, known as Papa Doc, who ruled Haiti from 1957 to 1971 and whose ruthless security force, the Tonton Macoutes, misused the religion as a means of repression. Mr. Duvalier even modeled himself after the Baron Samedi, the voodoo spirit of death, affecting a low nasal voice and wearing dark sunglasses to hide his eyes and instill fear and devotion.

 After last year’s earthquake, some evangelical preachers, including Pat Robertson in the United States, said the catastrophe was related to Haiti’s “pact with the devil.”

There is no evidence that voodoo ceremonies have contributed in any notable way to fire trends in New York, according to the Fire Department. But Jim Long, a department spokesman, said it was worrisome when alcoholic substances were used for purposes like lighting fires. In many ceremonies, practitioners use rum or a flammable, lemon-scented perfume that can be bought for about $10.

Much as clergy members in other religions accept payments to perform rituals like marriages and baptisms, voodoo priests and priestesses typically charge for their services, in part to help pay for the expensive tastes of spirits like Freda, who favors offerings like pink Champagne, believers say. Prices can range from $300 for a recipe to infatuate a wary lover to $5,000 for a full-fledged exorcism in which evil spirits are transferred from humans to other animals, like pigs.

Mr. Laroche said he paid $10,000 for his marriage ceremony, a price he said was more than justified by the benefits the good will of the spirits would bring.

Ms. Desir said that aspiring voodoo priestesses and priests typically apprenticed with an experienced mentor and that it could take up to five years to master the botany, healing and drumming rituals of voodoo. In the absence of a governing body to regulate the religion, she said, profiteering by an unscrupulous few has made it vulnerable to fraud.

Edeline St. Armand, a mambo who built a voodoo temple in her basement in Canarsie, Brooklyn, said that when she arrived in the neighborhood more than 20 years ago, an Italian family living next door moved away after a few days. “They were afraid and thought that Haitians are witches,” Ms. St. Armand said.

Ms. St. Armand said voodoo rituals at her temple, Société La Belle Venus II, were attracting hundreds of people from across the city, including Wall Street bankers seeking spells to guard against falling share prices and homemakers aggrieved about wayward husbands. She said that because the religion was focused on curing people physically and spiritually, some misguided people were turning to voodoo with the wrong intentions.

“I would never use voodoo to do harm or to kill a merger-and-acquisition deal,” Ms. St. Armand said. “I try and only use it to do good.” She said she had recently helped a repentant convict seeking to overturn his drug-possession conviction, but immediately threw out someone who asked her for a spell to allow him to have unprotected sex.

For many practitioners, voodoo is a matter of cultural identity. Ms. Desir, 50, recalled that her Catholic mother had been aghast when, as a rebellious young adult living in Queens and studying anthropology at Barnard College, she also decided to study to become a mambo. “I personally don’t hide the fact that I am a voodoo priestess; it is a crown that I wear proudly,” Ms. Desir said. “My role is not to create love potions but to help reconnect with African culture.”

For Mr. Laroche, who came to New York when he was 5, voodoo is a tie to his family’s home in Port-au-Prince. He sees no contradiction between wielding an iPhone and marrying a voodoo bride. During the marriage ceremony, Mr. Laroche said he planned to celebrate his nuptials with his girlfriend, who he said had little reason to be jealous. She had already married Ogou, a virile, cigar-smoking spirit who is said to provide strength and protection.

Closing time,  I want to share with you this New International Version Bible is showing...

Deuteronomy 18:10

10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,...

 

Voodoo belongs to the witchcraft at all.  Be careful and guard against the cult religious please.  Thank you!