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Voodoo festival attracts curious tourists

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SHOTLIST PLEASE NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT IN SHOT 6 Ouidan, Benin - January 10, 2013 1. Various, Voodoo worshipers seen dance around the Point of No Return monument 2. Various, Voodoo worshipers singing at the temple of pythons. 3. Mid, A voodoo priest wearing a neck chain made from goat horn and sea shells watch as a man slaughters a goat at the temple of pythons. 4. Mid, goats for sacrifice are seen tied down. 5. Various, Daagbo Hanoun, the voodoo pope, in dark sun glasses and a hand woven hat, offer prayers then bite the ears of a goat violently before the goat was slaughtered for sacrifice at the Temple of Pythons. 6. CLIENTS PLEASE BE AWARE ++GRAPHIC CONTENT++ A man slaughters a goat at the Temple of Pythons during the annual Voodoo Festival in Ouidah. 7. Various, Voodoo effigies on display during the annual Voodoo Festival in Ouidah, Benin. 8. Setup shot, Djbassi Manonwomin 9. Cutaway eight year old Badjiozona, young voodoo high priestess 10. Wide of Djbassi Manonwomin seated with other women and eight year old Badjiozona 12. SOUNDBITE (Fon): Djbassi Manonwomin , Voodoo priestess: "Voodoo does good things. If you make a sacrifice to them they will bless you, they will give you good health if you worship them and do not doubt. They are good voodoo who save peoples life but if you don't worship them very well that's your problem. 13. Various, Voodoo worshipers perform rituals before setting out for voodoo festival. 14. Voodoo chiefs stand outside the Temple of Pythons which is directly overlooking the catholic church that once hosted Pope Benedict. Ouidan, Benin - January 9, 2013 15. Various, exterior of catholic church 16. Wide of back of voodoo statue of topless woman and church in background 17. Setup shot Jean Zossoujbo 18. Statue of a topless woman with a python around a neck 19. Setup shots, Jean Zossoujbo 20. Mid, a tourist walk past sign outside the Temple of pythons. 21. SOUNDBITE (Fon) : Jean Zossoujbo, a guide at the Temple of pythons "Every seven days we open the doors for the pythons to go out to eat. Those who are too full, who has big belly will stay inside." 22. Wide, Jean Zossoujbo shows a python 23. SOUNDBITE (Fon) : Jean Zossoujbo, a guide at the Temple of pythons "Sometimes the pythons will go to the catholic church and the priest will bring them back." Ouidan, Benin - January 10, 2013 24. Wide, people walk past the Point of No Return monument 25. Various tourists buying things during the voodoo festival in Benin 26. SOUNDBITE (English): Marcia Burrell, Professor at SUNY Oswego "They are things that you can do in society that are catholic and voodun "Voodoo", they are parallel. It makes you really think of what is the purpose of religion and how we can't think of it the way Hollywood thinks about it, We got to think about voodoo as part of a cultural system." 27. Various, Voodoo worshipers sing and dance at the temple of pythons. Ouidan, Benin - January 10, 2013 28. SOUNDBITE (English):Greg Fry, a tourist from Kamloops, British Columbia, in Canada "When you first see it, You conjure up all kinds of images that Hollywood has sent us, but I did read up about it and learn that's not what it is - it's a form of religion. It made me interested to see how this functions, what part does it play in their society." Ouidan, Benin - January 9, 2013 29. Various guide with python around his neck 30. SOUNDBITE (Fon) : Jean Zossoujbo, a guide at the Temple of pythons " The tourist who are not courageous will not put the python around their neck but those are will put it around their neck." 32. Various, Aduare Achumba, a visitor to the Temple of Pythons, reacts as a guide puts a python on her head UPSOUND: (English) Aduare Achumba "Please take it off !" LEAD IN : You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/a6218a0ca9622dce25607b2612f1c873 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork