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'''The Tromba, or cult of possession, is a ceremony where the spirits of the ancestors are invoked by the living. The “tromba” is an ancestral custom that the populations of the North-West and North-East of Madagascar, Imerina and the South, still practice to this day.'''
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Usually in a specific place dedicated for the purpose. Anyone can attend. The main participants are musicians whose rhythms of drums and accordions encourage the mediums to enter a trance.
At first, the mediums wear clothes reminiscent of the deceased. Sitting on the ground, in the middle of the audience, they seem elsewhere. They concentrate.