The Know Your Caribbean Podcast

Obeah, Mermaids and Magic

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Episode notes

Touching on many topics, from how descendants of enslaved Africans in the Caribbean worshipped Mami Wata/ Mama Dlo, danced the 'Calenda' and Bele, and how rain was conjured out of nowhere in the heights of droughts.


Excerpts from the book 'Obeah and Witchcraft in the West Indies' by Hesketh J Bell.


Featured Kalinda music by : Red Drum Drumming - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMwyhjknOAk


Bele Music from Martinique by : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IslellMtIz8&t=464s



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