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This chapter discuses the distribution of different religions in Madagascar, and numerous cultural elements and concepts including: fady, vintana, tsiny, tody, idols, sorcery, tromba, mpakafo, blood-pact, circumcision, trial by ordeal, fandroana, birth, marriage, death, burial, and famadihana. There are photographs of a zebu sacrifice and a famadihana ceremony, as well as three maps showing the distribution of ancestral religion, protestants, and catholics in Madagascar. A further illustration describes the vintana system as mapped onto the layout of a traditional Malagasy house.
