...Karen McCarthy Brown warns against applying some static and restrictive idea of morality to vodou: "The Vodou spirits are not models of the well-lived...particular slice of life over which they preside." 50. See my earlier rendition of Beatrice St. Jean's story in "Vodoun, or the Voice of the Gods," Raritan...

...hundred percent benevolent. Rather, as Brown (1991,6) succinctly puts it in regard to Vodou spirits, “They mirror the full range of possibilities inherent...particular slice of life over which they preside.” A large part of the apprenticeship of bori involves learning the names and personalities of these spirits...