I don't think so. It is true they have some colorful pagantry but they do for Mardi Gras too and look at Christmas.
I mean a person can confuse in terms of some cultures have engrained beliefs. Haiti has lots of voodoo whether they are Protestant or Catholic.
This is the way Catholicism worked. From the inside of culture out.
I don't think you will ever stamp these beliefs out.
What is the Pope to do? It is already known officially what teh Church teaches.
The prayer is just a matter of symbolic language used.