{"id":19,"date":"2012-11-14T21:24:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T21:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2012-12-13T20:11:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T20:11:52","slug":"therapeutic-vodou","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/therapeutic-vodou","title":{"rendered":"Therapeutic Vodou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 40px;\" title=\"Therapeutic Vodou \u00a9 Canadian Museum of Civilization, Marie-Louise Deruaz\" src=\"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/files\/2012\/11\/content-img_therapie.png\" alt=\"Therapeutic Vodou\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\" \/> Life can be thrown suddenly out of balance through sickness, professional failure, financial loss, family crisis or community conflict. At such times, the <em>lwa<\/em>\u2014who is frequently called upon to serve humans\u2014is asked to intervene and help the person in distress. This is what Vodouists mean by the practice of <em>maji<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Practitioners of <em>maji<\/em> perform treatments to heal or protect those who consult them, in a special room called the <em>badji<\/em>. The practitioner calls upon an <em>lwa<\/em> known to be effective under the circumstances in question, in order to speak with the spirit. The <em>lwa<\/em> may also take possession of the practitioner\u2019s body to investigate the situation for itself. Depending on the cause of the problem, the <em>lwa<\/em> decides on the appropriate treatment required to restore balance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life can be thrown suddenly out of balance through sickness, professional failure, financial loss, family crisis or community conflict. At such times, the lwa\u2014who is frequently called upon to serve humans\u2014is asked to intervene and help the person in distress. This is what Vodouists mean by the practice of maji. Practitioners of maji perform treatments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"tpl-page-vodou.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/vodou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}