The Vodou Service and Possession
A ceremony held on the eve of the 1791 slave uprising that began the Haitian Revolution is widely regarded as a founding moment of the religion's public history. Haiti formally recognised Vodou as an official religion only in 2003, more than two centuries later.
The Bois Caïman ceremony (14 August 1791); Haiti's 2003 state recognition of Vodou
The core communal ceremony of Haitian Vodou, in which practitioners are held to be temporarily possessed by ancestral spirits called lwa.