Voodoo: Chicken Blood

New Orleans Religion

Saturday, April 6, 2013
Chicken Sacrifices
Voodoo is an animistic Religion and due to that, the sacrifice of animals is almost expected. Unfortunately for our tasty friend, the Chicken, this just means another religion that sets people out to kill him. Although chickens are regularly sacrificed in other religions, why does that doom the chicken to a similar fate in Voodoo?

Chicken (From the Delicious Truth)
First of all, I should mention that, in most cases, it is the blood that plays the role of the offering to the Loa that the, now dead, chicken has been sacrificed for. However, there are some exceptions where the Loa is satisfied with either chicken eggs or cooked chicken meat. Nonetheless, chicken blood is the most common offering.

Also, another important thing to note is that chickens are the almost unanimously preferred animal to sacrifice among the Loa. Be that as it may, there are some Loa who are said to absolutely despise chicken meat, blood and so on. Offering a chicken to these few Loa would be insulting to them and would ruin the ceremony and idea of making a sacrifice completely (I'm sure chickens love these Loa).

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