Here is a list of the holidays celebrated by many Voodoists, particularly in Haiti.
Demographics
Haitian Vodou is practiced alongside Christianity by about half the population, or some 4 million people, and this has been carried abroad with Haitian emigration.
Holidays
January 2, 3,4 - Breaking the cakes (case gateaux), a communal form of mange lwa
January 6 - Les Rois (the kings)
February 25 - Ritual feeding of the springs (manger tetes d'l'eau)
March 16 - Loko Davi, eating of the ritual wood and of its guard
March 19 - Saint Joseph, an expression of the jurisdiction of Legba
March 20 - Legba Zaou (eating consists mainly of a black goat)
April 27 - Danbala Wedo
April 29 - Breaking the jugs (casse canarie), deliverance of the souls from purgatory
April 31 - Feeding the dead (mange-les-morts)
May 12 - Feeding of different loa
May 18 - Feeding of Grande Aloumandia
May 20, 21 - Sim'bi blanc
May 30 - Sung masses (chante-messes) in the Roman-Catholic church
June 24 - Saint John
June 28 - M'sieu Guimeh Sauveur; Mystere Grande Delai; common table served for Maetresse Erzulie, Maetress Tenaise and Maetresse Mam'bo
July 25 - Papa Ogou or St. James the Greater (sheep and goats are offered)
July 26 - Common table for Grande Saint Anne, also known as Mystere Grande Delai and Grande Aloumandia
July 29 - Maetresse Silverine (who only very slightly tastes of the food offered to her) and Maetresse Lorvana (who smells flowers for her nurishment)
August 25 - Communion table for Danbala Wedo, also known as Saint Louis of the King of France
August 29 - L'Orient, one of the most important mysteres
August 30, 31 - Agwe (offerings of goats, peppers and peppermints)
September 25 - Roi Wangol and Mousondi
September 29 - Manman Aloumandia
September 30 - Maetresse Delai
October 30, 31 - Masses sung in the Roman-Catholic church; communion table of 40 scarves of different colors, exposed to the peristyle and "served"
November 1, 2 - The Guede loa come out of the cemeteries, possess their horses and come into the hounforts to amuse themselves in the form of souls incarnated or reincarnated
November 25th - Eating the yams (manger-yam)
December 10 - Ganga-Bois
December 12,13, 14 - Feeding the sea (agoueh r oyo)
December 25 - Bath of Christmas; leaf-rubbing for medical treatments and talismans for magic protection, ritual sacrifices of pigs and goats, boucans for amusement, to which the loa come to bathe themselves and their proteges; sacrifice of turkeys for Caplau
ive marked up to the 24th of june on my calender all of next year, im going to be so confused when my phone beeps at me about a certain date lol thanks for posting this up tank!
