Highlights of This Profile
Ever wonder about strange behavior? Understanding the fears, myths, taboos, proverbs, legends, and folklore specific to Haiti will help you get a handle on all kinds of cultural oddities. Superstitions have the potential to affect everything from government, politics, business, public life, family life, travel, and social conduct. Understanding them can prove advantageous for what travelers and business professionals might expect and how they can approach or prepare for their foreign counterparts in and from Haiti. You’ll avoid potential faux pas, get familiar with local customs, and educate yourself about what people are doing and why.

This colorful report provides a deeper look at an array of lore that includes anything from spirits, ghosts, monsters, urban myths, old wives’ tales, occult practices, and luck charms.  It takes selected major superstitions, legends, and folklore of Haiti and discusses their origins, their stories as told in the country, and associated traditions. It also includes proverbs and sayings unique to the country.

Find out how superstitious Haitians really are and learn about their taboos and fears, both old and modern alike—anything from good and bad luck charms and actions, holidays such as New Year’s, numerology, money, birth and pregnancy, weddings, death and dying, maladies, animals, food, house and home, colors, and more.  Not only is it fascinating, it’ll give you something to talk about.

Table of Contents

• General Overview
• Specific Superstitions
• Other Superstitions

Haiti Superstitions and Folklore
A profile of the folklore, legends, proverbs, and superstitions of Haiti

Image Size: 8.5"X11" (22X28cm)
Pages: 4 pages/3977 words
Pub. Date: 2007
SKU: HTI-Soc-054
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