See houngenikon on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 51:",
"text": "The houngenikon thereupon starts off the song, the drums and the chorus join in and when it is ended the houngan inquires: “Are you satisfied?”",
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"ref": "1954, Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die:",
"text": "The drums changed and the Houngenikon came dancing on to the floor, holding a vessel filled with some burning liquid from which sprang blue and yellow flames.",
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"ref": "1989, Amy Wilentz, The Rainy Season:",
"text": "Sometimes Bienaimé nods in the direction of a particularly noisy racket, and the houngenikon flicks at those kids with his whip.",
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"ref": "1995, Karen McCarthy Brown, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 211",
"text": "I was told that the Vodou priest Cesar had had a serious fight with Nicole, the ounjenikon, mistress of song, of his temple."
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"(voodoo) The leader of singing in a voodoo ceremony."
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