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It is another name for the houngan ("voodoo priest"), which has its origin in François Mackandal, a bossale ("slave brought from Africa") who promoted that religion as a form of rebellion against the oppression of whites in Haiti, in addition to using different poisons to murder slavers, so nineteenth-century French apothecaries began to call any poison 'makandal'.

  



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