Template:Did you know nominations/Cécile Fatiman

Cécile Fatiman

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... that Cécile Fatiman was believed to be possessed by Èzili Dantò when she incited the Haitian Revolution?
Source: Finch, Aisha K. (2020). "Cécile Fatiman and Petra Carabalí, Late Eighteenth-Century Haiti and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba". In Ball, Erica L.; Seijas, Tatiana; Snyder, Terri L. (eds.). As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas. Cambridge University Press. pp. 307–309. ISBN 9781108493406.
- ALT1: ... that the Haitian Revolution began when Cécile Fatiman sacrificed a black pig, a ritual which was later repeated by Haitians resisting the United States occupation and the Duvalier dynasty? Source: Lundy, Garvey F. (2009). "Fatiman, Cécila". In Asante, Molefi Kete; Mazama, Ama (eds.). Encyclopedia Of African Religion. SAGE Publications. pp. 262–263. ISBN 978-1-4129-3636-1.
- ALT2: ... that the Vodou priestess Cécile Fatiman was credited with instilling Haitian Revolutionaries with a "superhuman courage"? Source: Kingsbury, Kate; Chesnut, R. Andrew (2019). "In Her Own Image: Slave Women and the Re-imagining of the Polish Black Madonna as Ezili Dantò, the Fierce Female Lwa of Haitian Vodou". International Journal of Latin American Religions. 3: 214–215. doi:10.1007/s41603-019-00071-5.
- ALT3: ... that despite leading the ceremony that incited the Haitian Revolution, Cécile Fatiman has often been left out of historiography about the revolution? Source: Watkins, Angela Denise (2014). Mambos, Priestesses, and Goddesses: Spiritual Healing Through Vodou in Black Women's Narratives of Haiti and New Orleans (PhD). University of Iowa. pp. 2–4. doi:10.5840/jcr20214439.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Jo West

Improved to Good Article status by Grnrchst (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 41 past nominations.

Grnrchst (talk) 09:15, 28 August 2024 (UTC).

Interesting GA biography, on fine sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. Of the hooks, I prefer ALT1, by far. "Possessed" is too ambiguous a word, and that spirit not known (at least to me). I like the description of the ceremony better than labelling her as priestess (ALT2), and ALT3 says nothing more than the obvious: that we didn't know her ;) - In the article, I'd say something about the lead image, such as "depiction". Seems to be someone's dream of her ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:29, 28 August 2024 (UTC)