Benin, West Africa, Bopa, miss ablossi carrying the carved wooden figures of her five dead twins
She had some triplets and some twins who all died from malaria. 5 kids. But she smiles as in the voodoo culture, the twins or triplets who die, well...do not die. They keep on living in a little doll that the mother treats exactly like any child. The dead twins eat, drink, sleep with the family,take shower, go to school etc...
And when the mother goes out, she puts the 'hoovis' on her chest, as they have super powers on the outside world...
Indredible to see and to hear.
Bopa, Benin, Africa
Done with #Sony a7r
Benin, West Africa, Bopa, miss ablossi carrying the carved wooden figures of her five dead twins
She had some triplets and some twins who all died from malaria. 5 kids. But she smiles as in the voodoo culture, the twins or triplets who die, well...do not die. They keep on living in a little doll that the mother treats exactly like any child. The dead twins eat, drink, sleep with the family,take shower, go to school etc...
And when the mother goes out, she puts the 'hoovis' on her chest, as they have super powers on the outside world...
Indredible to see and to hear.
Bopa, Benin, Africa
Done with #Sony a7r