- Voodoo believers in Haiti have been performing rituals to appease Gods as part of annual Day of the Dead
- The festival sees family members congregate to remember loved ones who have died and to celebrate
- People also dress up as voodoo spirit Baron Samedi and honour him by smoking, dancing and drinking rum
By Jennifer Newton for MailOnline
Dancing in the street and making offerings to the Gods, voodoo practitioners have been performing rituals to appease the spirits as part of the annual Day of the Dead.
The Day of the Dead is celebrated on the first two days of November during All Saints and All Souls Day and voodoo believers and devotees celebrate with candles, alcohol and food.
The festival sees families congregate to remember loved ones who have passed away by celebrating their death with face-painting, storytelling and food offerings. And in Haiti, the celebrations centre around honoring the Haitian voodoo spirits of Baron Samdi and Gede.
Samdi, the head of the Gede family, is one of the Loa of Haitian voodoo and is often depicted wearing a top hat, black tuxedo, dark glasses, with skin resembling a corpse.
According to Haitian folklore, when a person dies, Baron Samedi digs up their grave greets their soul and leads them to the underworld.
And on the Day of the Dead many Haitians flock to the Baron Samedi cross, where they dress up, smoke cigarettes and drink rum.
Voodoo followers smoke cigarettes and drink from bottles of rum as they carry dead goats during an annual Day of the Dead festival in Haiti
A man carries a live goat and sticks a 100 Gourdes bill, worth just £1, on his forehead during a ceremony at a voodoo temple in Port-au-Prince
The Day of the Dead sees families congregate to remember loved ones who have passed away by celebrating their death with face-painting, storytelling and food offerings
A Mambo, a Haitian voodoo female priest, takes part in the Day of the Dead ceremony at a voodoo temple in Haiti
Voodoo followers also take the opportunity for dancing during the ceremony, which always take place on November 1 and 2
A devotee pretending to be the spirit known as a Gede smiles during a ceremony in the National Cemetery in the Haitian capital
Voodoo believers and devotees offer candles, alcohol and food to the Gods during the ceremonies on the Day of the Dead
A voodoo believer, dressed as Gede, a spirit of voodoo, greets peopleas he sits on a grave during celebrations at the cemetery of Port-au-Prince
A voodoo believer, dressed up as Gede stands of the cross of Baron Samdi who voodoo followers honour during the celebrations
According to Haitian folklore, when a person dies, Baron Samedi digs up their grave greets their soul and leads them to the underworld
In another ritual on Day of the Dead in Haiti, a voodoo believer is purified by cleaning his head with wine at a cemetery
A woman pours what appears to be beer over the head of another voodoo follower during a cleansing ritual on Day of the Dead in Haiti
A woman devotee in the role of a spirit known as a Gede is seen during ceremonies honoring the Haitian voodoo spirits of Baron Samdi and Gede on the Day of the Dead
Voodoo followers take part in ceremonies honoring the Haitian voodoo spirits of Baron Samdi and Gede at a cemetery in Haiti