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"ref": "1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 36",
"text": "Here, on the Island Below the Sea, the loa have their permanent residence, their primal location.",
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"ref": "2007, Kevin Filan, The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Destiny Books, page 3",
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"ref": "2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 714",
"text": "Equally surprising is to find St Patrick so prominent in many Vodou shrines, until one remembers that he too had been a slave who had twice crossed the sea, the second time to freedom, and that he had particular power over snakes, like the loa (Haitian equivalent of orisha) Dambala Wèdo.",
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