Day of the Dead in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - NOVEMBER 1, 2010: A woman gets possesed by Gede next to a cross dedicated to Baron Samedi, in the National Cemetery of Port-au-Prince. Haiti, on All Saints' Day Nov. 1, where festivities continue through Nov. 2, the Day of the Dead. Practitioners visit the tombstones of relatives and pay their respects to Baron Samedi, the god of the dead, and to his lascivious, sardonic offspring, Gede. All Saints Day and the Day of the Dead are two days devoted to the Gede, who are feted for most of the month of November. One of the most important Vodou holidays in Haiti, Vodouists go to cemeteries to pray with food, coffee and peppered alcohol, to light candles and to put fresh flowers on graves, and then dance all night at 'peristyles' or Vodou temples. (Photo by Dario Mitidieri/Getty Images)