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Originally Posted by audboogie
I know alot of posters are married to Dominicans or live in DR, how has this "cultural" difference affect your perspective & adaptively to Dominican culture?
at first it was kind of werid...i had no idea this thought was "voo doo" but this was 3 yrs ago and since then i have learned alot. still don't belive in it, but its interesting to me to observe how Dominicans do belive and the stories they have to tell....for example, they swear there are witches that fly on broomsticks..come out at night somewhere...now that is hard to belive....the other where theres a iron pole thats on fire and they touch it and don't get burned.....etc...but then there are little beliefs that i just let go for sake of not arguing=in the morning when the floor is cold to put slippers on me and the baby. i've learned like u said that they are taught these beliefs since birth and im sure it would be hard to change their beliefs therefor since its not harmful i just let it go. the only time it did bother me is when he believed someone put a spell on him and when he went to this lady she described the person who put it on him, and he swore he knew who it was. so hes doin all this stuff to get rid of it, and to me he was wasting his time, effort, and money so that kind of urked me. but this is an interesting topic and anyone else who has experiences please share!
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The DR witches don't fly on broomstick, they are said to transform into an animal (rodent, chicken, dog, snake....). Their intention is to suck blood out of infants, this is why their is a rush to baptize a child or at least "santiguarlo" and present him/her at church to god. When you see a malnourished infant in the DR the first thing that comes up is that a witch a sucking his/her blood. There are countless of tales where people claim to have participated in catching a witch (Tumbar una bruja).