From Wilderness Travel brochure"
"We cross the border into Benin, and on our way south, we stop at the Dankoli Fetish, an important place for the voodoo cult: thousands of little sticks are pushed in this fetish as testimony of the countless prayers for a good harvest, a happy wedding, an easy delivery, success at school, and so on. Once the prayers are answered, people come back to sacrifice what they had promised—a goat, a chicken, or a cow, according to the nature of the prayer. Traces of blood, palm alcohol, or oil on the fetish are proof that many prayers have been answered."
"We cross the border into Benin, and on our way south, we stop at the Dankoli Fetish, an important place for the voodoo cult: thousands of little sticks are pushed in this fetish as testimony of the countless prayers for a good harvest, a happy wedding, an easy delivery, success at school, and so on. Once the prayers are answered, people come back to sacrifice what they had promised—a goat, a chicken, or a cow, according to the nature of the prayer. Traces of blood, palm alcohol, or oil on the fetish are proof that many prayers have been answered."
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