| November 5, 2003
Crayyyyyyzeeeeee 
A Vodou believer pours hot pepper-spiced homemade alcohol on her
genital area, one of the key rituals during Gede, a Vodou holiday
dedicated to Baron Samdi and the Gede family of spirits of the
dead, while other believers, one clutching a miniature coffin,
look on in the National Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on November
1, 2003, which is All Saints Day and is also the first of two days
devoted to the Gede, who are feted for most of the month of November.
One of themost important Vodou holidays in the country, but especially
in the capital, Vodouists go to cemeteries to pray with food, coffee
and peppered alcohol, to light candles and to put fresh flowers
on graves, and then dance all night at 'peristyles' or Vodou temples.
(AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
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