Voodoo weddings and synchronized bodies

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"...The ceremony was short and completely bewildering. The priest, who introduced himself as Germain, sang songs, rattled amulets, prayed to a giant clay statue of a voodoo god, and had us hold our hands and nod at certain intervals. Then he drank some liquid out of a jar with a dead snake inside, and rattled amulets some more. It all looked very serious...." [excerpt from Growing Young]