[1] John Pemberton, cited in Robert Pelton, The Trickster in West Africa (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1980), p. 136.

[2] Ibid., p.73.

[3] Ibid., p.72.

[4] Migene Gonzalez-Wippler, Tales of the Orisha (ew York: Original Publications, 1985), p.45.

[5] Pelton, p. 153.

[6] Ibid., p.126.

[7] Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Signifying Monkey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), p. 35.

[8] Pelton, p.119.

[9] Ibid., p. 87.

[10] Roger Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978), p. 252.

[11] Pelton, p. 131.

[12] Ibid., p. 130.

[13] Robert Farris Thompson, The Flash of the Spirit (New York: Vintage Books, 1983), p. 19.

[14] Gates, p.24.

[15] Ibid., p. 27.

[16] Pelton, p.126.

[17] Ibid., p.119.

[18] Gates, p. 38

[19] Maya Deren, The Divine Horsemen (New York: McPherson & Co., 1953), p. 98.

[20] Ibid., p.34.

[21] Molly Ahye, private interview with Katherine Ramsey, February 7, 1990.

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