Voodoo believers walk during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Dressed in white, shaking decorated gourd rattles and singing praises to "Olorum Papa" (God the Father), several hundred practitioners of Haiti's voodoo religion held a ...

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NMAF copy 39088019239706 gift from the collection of Lonnie G. Bunch III. "The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi ...

The Voodoo festival has become a real tourist magnet, attracting visitors from the continent and beyond every year.

Voodoo is a religion that has been in existence for age, often seen as fetish and its practitioners respected out of fear of being charmed by them. At least some moves are being made to show how ...

The ancient origins of African magic -- The gods of prehistoric Africa -- The slave trade and its consequences -- Christianity encounters the old African religions -- Strange religious hybridization - ...