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Voodoo Trickster Gods of Africa and Haiti - Mythillogical Podcast Mini
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Who's that figure standing at the crossroads? After following Anansi’s journey from Africa to the New World, today’s bonus episode sees Charles and Crofty investigate two other trickster figures who were brought from Africa to the Americas, the gods Eshu and Legba.
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Sources for today's video included:
Who Is That Fellow in the Many-Colored Cap? Transformations of Eshu in Old
and New World Mythologies by Donald Consentino
Anansi, Eshu and Legba. Slave Resistance and the West African Trickster by Dr Emily Zobel Marshall
The Trickster in West Africa: A Study of Mythic Irony and Sacred Delight by Robert D. Pelton
Eshu-Elegba: The Yoruba Trickster God by John Pemberton
Trickster makes the World by Professor Hyde Lewis
Yorùbá Influences on Haitian Vodou and New Orleans Voodoo by Ina J. Fandrich
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The Haitian Voodoo handbook: Protocols for Riding with the Lwa by Kenaz Filan
A Meeting with the Devil at the Crossroads: A Contemporary Legend? by Gail de Vos
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Palmer
Suonatore di Liuto by Kevin MacLeod
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