#3541: Culture Vulturism: Settle comments

[Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>]

From: jackie settle <jackiesettle@yahoo.com>

 
 From:Racine125@aol.

Houngans and Mambos do NOT charge people
admission for the privilege of attending
ceremonies, the  vast majority of which are open
to the public.

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Sorry, but some of them DO charge. I was in Haiti
in 1978 and my Haitian friends wanted to take me
to see a public ceremony.  It was the first of
November and there were many ceremonies going on.
 We were far out in the country, and definately
not in a tourist area.  I was the only white
person there.  I was asked to pay $10 for the
previlage of attending while none of the other
persons there had to. I refused, and we left.
 My friends then took me to 2 more ceremonies
which I did not have to pay for. I found out
later it was because they had been asked for
money for me to attend but one of the friends
said I was his wife, so that made it ok for me to
attend for free.  Some do charge if they think
they can get the money!
I had no objection to paying, I just didn't want
to be the only one that had to pay!
Jackie


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