Superstition in Haiti

99.9 percent of the Haitians are superstitious. I was surprised to be listening to a famous journalist in Haiti yesterday who thinks it is normal for people to die during the carnival season because, superstitiously speaking, it has to happen. SAY WHAT???

Other countries talk about public safety all the time. Whenever there is a large crowd gathered for some kind of event, public safety, making SURE everyone is safe, is the number one priority for the authorities in other countries except Haiti.

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Imagine that... A baby is crying all day and all night, she is not eating, she just keeps on crying. The family refuses to take her to a hospital. Instead, they think it's some poor lougarou neighbor trying to suck the blood of the baby.

En Francais: En Haiti, les LOUGAROUs et le gouvernement sont blâmés pour tout ce qui fait peur!

A couple of weeks later, the baby is dead. "it is the LOUGAROU that came and ate the baby," the grand father came to me and said.

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Why are some people so superstitious in Haiti? I woke up this morning and found a big ugly butterfly perched on my laptop screen... I thought nothing of it... Maybe it's because I've been away from Haiti for too long...

I grab my laptop slowly, walk towards the window and gently blow off the butterfly.

Half an hour later, I saw the same butterfly perched inside the back door of the house. So I said: I'm gonna let it go again BUT... If I see it a third time inside the house... Sa-l pran se pa-l...

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Yep... Haitians ARE VERY superstitious! Did you read my story about The Butterfly And My Dead Grandmother? This is part 2... A True story about my little breakfast incident the morning after... Welcome to the Twilight Zone! LOL...

I woke up the morning after I got rid of the big ugly butterfly in the house and grapped a piece of bread to eat with my morning coffee. as I walked through the back porch, the bread fell out of my hands.

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