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 ...

MIAMI — Goat meat stewing on the stove and sweet potatoes baking in the oven. Cooked fish, complete with bones and eyeballs. Spicy peppers soaked in bottles of rum. The food is an offering to the ...

For centuries, Haitians have turned to voodoo priests in times of illness, heartbreak, and confusion, relying on the native clergymen to counsel them or take up their case with the powerful African ...

For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal sacrifices, magical dolls and chanted spells. But Voodoo – as practiced in Haiti and by the black diaspora in the United States, South America and ...

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For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal sacrifices, magical dolls and chanted spells. But Voodoo – as practiced in Haiti and by the black diaspora in the United States, South America and ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. (THE CONVERSATION) For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal sacrifices, ...