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For an outsider the Voodoo Fetish Market in Lome, Togo is about as creepy as it gets.

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In the heart of Togo's capital, Lome, is a market dedicated to the sale of ingredients which traditional healers say can make magic charms.

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Every table is heaped with the skulls of crocodiles, cats, monkeys, and many more. Despite its general appearance it is, at least on the surface, a place of healing.

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West African followers of Vodun number in the tens of millions, and so it shouldn't be a surprise that in Togo they have what could be considered the Costco of ingredients. Welcome to the Voodoo Fetish Market

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Contrary to the myths propagated in mainstream media, Vodun is not a religion of magic or the casting of evil spells. Vodun is a spiritual cult, and could be considered the cult of the ancestors.

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Togo's Voodoo Fetish Market does not discriminate amongst its customers. They will sell to Vodun priests and priestesses, Bktnon, and tourists alike.

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In fact the followers of Vodun believe that the origin of the universe, of humanity, and any direct connection with the creator is beyond human reach.

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These animal heads are the prime ingredient in the black powder which has been witnessed even by Westerners to cure everything from cancer to infertility.

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This place is like a pharmacy for everybody in the world. When someone has a serious sickness and the hospital cannot help, they come here to the fetish market.

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To make the medicine, they grind up the heads with herbs and then put the mixture on the fire. This leaves them with a black powder

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They cut the person's chest or back three times and then rub the powder into the flesh.

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The government knows what they are doing and where we are.They don't kill any of the animals there themselves

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If you and your wife have no baby after 10 years of trying and you go to hospital and that does not help, they have some medicines here at the market that can help the woman have a baby

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Every year the fetish priests go from village to village to prepare the 'house protector

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