In this October 27, 2018 photo, Atesi Auguste, a voodoo priestess, sits as she sells fried meat and bananas and she watches Mimose Bernard who issupposed to be possessed the Gede spirit, during Haiti's annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede, in Cite Soleil slum, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. “I have thirty years in having Gede spirit manifested in my head”, said Auguste. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this November 1, 2018 photo, voodoo believers who are supposed to be possessed with Gede spirit walk in the middle of the street during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Every year, during the celebration, they paint their faces with white powder, wear the loas' clothes, travel the narrowly pathways through the shanty town and go to cemeteries to pay tribute to the spirits. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this October 30, 2018 photo, Mimose Bernard, a voodoo believer poses for a picture as she invokes a “Gede” spirit, before Haiti's annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede, in Cite Soleil slum, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. “I remember that I was 10-years-old when I first invoked the Gede spirit”, says Bernard who lives with her child in a tiny home that was built with old metal sheets, where some images of voodoo are part of the decoration and her bed with some clothes holding full the room. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this Oct.ober 31, 2018 photo, Raynold Alexandre, a voodoo priest, who is supposed to be possessed the Gede spirit, drinks with his daughter Darline Alexandre, also voodoo priestess, during Haiti's annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede, in Cite Soleil slum, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Alexandre and his wife Auguste are well known voodoo priests and three of their six children are also voodoo priests. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this November 2, 2018 photo, Frantz Lindor, left, a voodoo believer, rests with his mate in a voodoo temple during Haiti's annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede, in Cite Soleil slum, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Every year, during the celebration, they paint their faces with white powder, wear the loas' clothes, travel the narrowly pathways through the shanty town and go to cemeteries to pay tribute to the spirits and got possessed by them. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this Novemer 1, 2018 photo, a voodoo believer walks to Baron Samedi's tomb during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The most respected along the Fete Gede is Baron Samedi, a lewd representation of life and death, who runs the gate of the Guiné (a kind of Heaven) wearing a black suit and top hat while drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco and following young ladies in a provocative manner. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this October 27, 2018 photo, Mimose Bernard, a voodoo believer, invokes a “Gede” spirit during Haiti's annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede, in Cite Soleil slum, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Bernard invokes every year the Gede spirit since October 1st to November 2 and during these weeks she walks the backstreets between shacks built with metal sheets at the slum, to perform voodoo rituals to other residents. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this November 1, 2018 photo, meals and flowers sits on the ground of Baron Samedi's tomb during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Accompanied by the priests, the believers, some of them also wearing the loas' clothes, make their annual visit to cemeteries in Port-au-Prince and throughout the country to honor the spirits by offering coffee and meals to the dead loved ones and to the black cross that represents Baron Samedi. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this November 1, 2018 photo, a voodoo believer who is supposed to be possessed with Gede spirit perform rituals on Baron Samedi's tomb during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Baron Samedi is also considered by Haitian voodooists as the wisest adviser, protector of children and the last hope for the sick. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this November 1, 2018 photo, voodoo believers who are supposed to be possessed with Gede spirit perform rituals in the middle of Baron Samedi's tomb during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Every year, during the celebration, they paint their faces with white powder, wear the loas' clothes, travel the narrowly pathways through the shanty town and go to cemeteries to pay tribute to the spirits. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this November 1, 2018 photo, voodoo believers who are supposed to be possessed with Gede spirit perform rituals in the middle of the street during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Along the celebration, which starts on October and has its climax on November 1st and 2, the believers wear the distinctive clothes of their Loas or Gedes, the creol generic name for the spirits. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this November 1, 2018 photo, a human skull sits on top of Baron Samedi's tomb during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. With the faces covered with white-powder, wearing hats and black, white and purple clothes, voodoo believers in Haiti walk through the streets and visit the cemeteries along the country during the Fete Gede, a celebration of the spirits equivalent to the Roman Catholic festivity of the Day of All Saints. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this November 1, 2018 photo, a voodoo believer who is supposed to be possessed with a Gede spirit, performs rituals near Baron Samedi's tomb during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The characteristics of this traditional celebration, the flamboyant customes and the white-powdered faces of the priests in trance inspired some of the first Hollywood stories about zombies. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this Noveber 1, 2018 photo, voodoo believers who are supposed to be possessed with Gede spirit dance in the middle of the street during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The characteristics of this traditional celebration, the flamboyant customes and the white-powdered faces of the priests in trance inspired some of the first Hollywood stories about zombies. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)





In this November 2, 2018 photo, a voodoo believer who is supposed to be possessed with Gede spirit performs rituals near Baron Samedi's tomb during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. As a proof that they got into trance and their bodies got possessed by Gedes, they drink and wash their faces, their eyes and even their genitals with a mixture of raw rum and hot chili peppers that, according to believers, could burn the skin of any human alive. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)