Many of these jokes also appear on Mambo Racine Sans Bout's Vodou site. All jokes are mine unless I say otherwise. You're quite welcome to E-mail me with a joke or humor URL of your own!

How many Vodoun practitioners does it take to change a light bulb?

• There are brothers and sisters in Haiti who don't even HAVE light bulbs...
• Light bulbs never burned out back in Africa!
• Light bulbs can only be properly changed in Haiti!

How many New Orleans Vodoun practitioners does it take to change a light bulb?

• Five--one to hold up the bulb, four to drink until the room spins...

How many Ghede Vodoun practitioners does it take to change a light bulb?

• Real Ghede practitioners aren't afraid of the dark!
• None--Ghede practitioners LIKE the dark!

How many Rada practitioners....?

• None needed--they always walk in the light!
• Just one--s/he holds up the bulb and the world revolves around her.

Petro practitioners?

• One, but it takes a LOT of lightbulbs!
• One to insert the old bulb, and one to exact revenge on the old bulb for burning out!

How many white seekers...?

• Pay me a thousand dollars and I'll teach you...
• Have sex with me and you'll find out!
• White people can't change lightbulbs! The ancestors will be offended!

Why did the Haitian chicken cross the road?

• She knew Fet Ghede was coming!

What's the difference between Vodoun and Santeria?

• A few thousand dollars a year. [This can be interpreted two ways...I leave it to you to choose!]
• One is a beautiful, traditional, magickal religion based on African ways, the other is the religion I'm not a member of.
• Who cares? You're all going to hell! [Sorry, Assemblies of God flashback...]

How do you know a mambo or houngan is for real?

• The one you're talking to is for real, but the one s/he's fighting with, well, that's a different story...

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