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Haiti, Décret-loi du 5 septembre 1935 sur les pratiques superstitieuses
Décret-loi du 5 septembre 1935 sur les pratiques superstitieuses, government of President Sténio Vincent. Defines the offence primarily as the ceremonies, rites, dances and meetings in the course of which are practiced, in offering to so-called divinities, sacrifices of cattle or fowl. Bulletin des lois et actes, 1934-35 (Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie de l'État, 1935), p. 351.
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- Record
- haiti-loi-superstitieuses-1935
- Type
- archive
- Trust tier
- A
- Status
- published
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The strongest-verified link in the WR-FCT-007 chain. Date, instrument and defining phrase all confirmed against the archival primary via Kate Ramsey (Gradhiva).
The reflex is a century older than the 1935 law. The Haitian penal codes of 1835 and 1864 already banned le vaudoux as sortilège. Haiti began criminalizing these practices thirty-one years after independence.
Corroborating primary: the Constitution of 1987, Article 297(a), which abrogates “Le décret-loi du 5 septembre 1935 sur les croyances superstitieuses.” The Constitution says croyances; the law’s own title says pratiques. https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Haiti_2012?lang=fr
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Vocabulary warning: sortilège is the Haitian penal-code word. Jamaica’s 1760 act says “Obeah or Witchcraft” and contains zero instances of “sorcery.” Do not swap them between jurisdictions.
Provenance
- Creator
- Republic of Haiti (Sténio Vincent)
- Published
- 1935
- Accessed
- 2026-07-14
- External record
- https://journals.openedition.org/gradhiva/352?lang=en
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