The Voodoo tribe is the name for a group from the Jungle River Cruise: Curse of the Emerald Trinity overlay of the Jungle River Cruise in Hong Kong Disneyland.
Description[]
This was a tribal group which inhabited a jungle centuries prior to the early 1930s. They had some apparent connection with vodun and the supernatural, namely in serving as the caretakers of the Emerald Trinity, three glowing emeralds which could grant immortality to whomever removed them from the jungle. The tribe defended the emeralds within the jungle's Temple of Immortality before disappearing but remaining as apparently undead in service of the emeralds.
History[]
Background[]
The tribe was active in a jungle, centuries earlier than 1932. They protected the Emerald Trinity and Temple of Immortality, preventing outsiders from stealing the emeralds. The tribe came to disappear off the face of the earth with the location of the Temple being lost to time. The tribe remained in some way, seemingly undead to protect the emerald for centuries to come.
In the early 1930s, the jewels were sought after by criminal archaeologist Professor Garrett Reed who wished to obtain immortality. Reed located the temple and stole one of the jewels on the December 8 of 1932 before taking it away to his base-camp. The night of December 8th, a skipper for the Jungle Navigation Company followed Reed's trail to the temple while performing a, "Jungle Cruise" tour and secretly stole the remaining emerald.
The skipper later happened upon Reed's camp where they witnesses his death at the hands of jungle vines. The jungle subsequently turned on the skipper too, with them narrowly escaping murderous plants, the resurrected tribe, and zombies emerging from the water. Eventually the boat entered the Canyon of the Gods where the canyon's deities reclaimed the stolen jewel. The gods attempted to kill those aboard the boat only for the boat to escape to the JNC boathouse.
Development history[]
The "Voodoo tribe" appeared in the Jungle River Cruise: Curse of the Emerald Trinity overlay of Jungle River Cruise in 2015. They were a re-theming of the headhunter tribe which appears in the attraction. In real-life, the voodoo religion is affiliated with the Caribbean and North America.
Appearances[]
Jungle River Cruise: Curse of the Emerald Trinity[]
The tribe served as a minor antagonistic force in this attraction.
Trivia[]
- The jungle which the attraction is set in is not made clear. Certain theories and pieces of evidence can be taken.
- Given the identification of the, "Voodoo tribe", it is likely that it is either located in Africa or South America. This is as Voodoo is a religion originating from tribal African religious practices being adapted for the Americas as a result of the transatlantic slave-trade. Because of this it is possible the tribe simply practices traditional African religion preceding voodoo which the colonist characters identify as voodoo, or less likely that they are a tribe occupying South America following the results of the slave-trade and practice actual voodoo.
- The boathouse for Jungle River Cruise is traditionally associated as being set within Africa, likely along the Congo basin given its proximity to Tarzan's Treehouse.
- If the Canyon of the Gods is the same canyon from Jungle River Cruise, this would make it set in Africa.