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Bois Caïman

Voodoo ceremony that started the Haitian Revolution in 1791

  • Dated from 14 August 1791 CE

A path that branches,
meets and parts.

Schools and lineages

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Nothing in this collection names Bois Caïman yet — no branches, figures, texts or places. A zero, not a claim that there are none.

Connections

How Bois Caïman connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 1

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure

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Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

1 statement on this record

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Data
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Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Samuel Tobbytex007 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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