The overwhelming majority of Vodou practice is domestic and small. A candle lit in the morning; water poured on the ground for Legba, who opens the way, and for the ancestors; the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Creed said in French or Kreyòl; the household lwa greeted by name and told what is happening. It takes a few minutes and requires a corner of a room, a glass, a candle and possibly a chromolithograph of a saint. The drum ceremony with dancing and possession — the thing photographed and filmed — happens occasionally, costs a great deal, and is not what most Vodouwizan do most of the time. This matters for understanding the religion's resilience: a practice conducted at home by one person with a candle survives church campaigns, state suppression, migration and poverty in a way that a public ceremony does not.