Cecile Fatiman

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Cécile Fatiman (* around 1775 in Africa, † around 1883 in Cap-Haïtien in Haïti ) was a Mambo , a Haitian voodoo priestess. She became famous for her participation in the Bois Caïman voodoo ceremony that marked the beginning of the Haitian Revolution .

biography

Cécilie Fatiman was the daughter of an African slave named Célestina Coidavid and a French prince of Corsica. She was sold as a slave together with her mother and two brothers in Saint-Domingue , whereby the brothers were separated from the family and subsequently disappeared. Fatiman is described as a mulatto with silky hair and green eyes.

In 1791 Fatiman led the voodoo ceremony in Bois Caïman together with the voodoo priest Dutty Boukman and other houngans and mambos, thus starting the slave rebellion of the Haitian revolution. During this ceremony, Fatiman allegedly went through an obsession with the loa Erzulie , slaughtered a pig and shared the blood with the other believers. Within the ceremony itself, an oath of revolt was sworn by all those present, sealed with the pig's blood.

Cécilie Fatiman was married to Jean-Louis Pierrot , a general in the Haitian army and later president, with whom she had three children. She died of old age (allegedly 112) in Cap Haïtien.

ancestry

New findings about the ancestry of Cécilie Fatimans suggest that the Corsican prince, who is listed as her father, was a grandson of Theodor von Neuhoff . In this case the name Fatiman would probably actually be a middle name and a modification of Attiman, after Gregorio Attiman von Lehorn or Livorno, who fought on the side of Theodor Neuhoff. The full name would then probably be Cécilie Attiman Coidavid, as her mother and sister Marie-Luise , who later became Queen of Haiti, had Coidavid as a surname.

literature

  1. ^ Joan Dayan: Haiti, History, and the Gods . Ed .: University of California Press. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California 1998.
  2. ↑ Richard M. Juang, Noelle Morissette: Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History . tape 1 . ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California 2008.
  3. ↑ Julia Gasper: Theodore Von Neuhoff, King of Corsica: The Man Behind the Legend . University of Delaware press, Newark 2013.
  4. ↑ Théodore, le Doge, les Gouverneurs et les Procurateurs de la République de Gênes . In: Mercure historique et politique . 1736.
personal data
SURNAME Fatiman, Cecile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mambo, a Haitian voodoo priestess
DATE OF BIRTH around 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Africa
DATE OF DEATH around 1883
Place of death Cap-Haïtien on Haïti