Do the Vodou practitioners have any knowledge of this legend?
I also decided to look for information on the Vodou version of the legend about the beginning of the Haitian revolution. The Vodou version of this legend is retold in the following paragraphs, indented to clarify that I am retelling a story from a particular point of view. According to Vodou legend, Bois Caiman (French), Bwa Kayiman (Haitian Creole) [Alligator Woods (English)] was the site of a historic nighttime meeting in August 1791. It is this meeting which led to a successful slave revolt, that ended colonialism, and eventually created the Western Hemispheres first independent black republic after many years of fighting and hardship. During the meeting, there was a traditional Vodou ritual led by Houngan Boukman Dutty. (Supposedly his name, Boukman, meant Book-man, because he could read and write.) Boukman offered a prayer to the Good God hidden in the clouds. Mambo Marinette sacrificed a domestic Haitian black pig. Ezili Dantor, the Petro lwa of motherhood, is associated with the
