Fetish Doll

Fetish Dolls have the power to appease ghosts that seek revenge or wish to return to the world of the living. In São Tomé and Príncipe, an island-country off the coast of West Africa, the inhabitants add both indigenous African and Catholic votive images to the dolls for use in the Djambí, a communal religious ritual of the Forros, in which music and dancing are connected with spirit possession.