Ancient Traditions. Voodoo, meaning "spirit," may be one of the world's oldest ancestral, nature-honoring traditions, according to Mamaissii Vivian Dansi Hounon, a member of OATH, the Organization ...

Thoughts of spells, rituals, and Voodoo dolls often mesmerize people but also invoke feelings of fear. Thanks to Hollywood, there are two versions of Voodoo – the scary one that focuses on ...

Voodoo, Development and the Culture of Haiti There are many factors which have determined and over-determined the miserable history of Haiti, to which almost everybody had become accustomed.

She came to embrace their traditions in voodoo as a way of prayer and worship in her own life, she said. "Yes, I make the gris-gris potions and perform the rituals," Jones said.

Voodoo culture Flaming Tiki drinks emerge like disembodied spirits from the Club’s purple-tinted semidarkness. Author. Publish Date. Aug. 10, 2018. Cat Eye Club’s Calypso’s Curse ...

I don’t know if Haiti’s “voodoo” island magic is real, but I do know that America’s new culture of dependency has worked its magic on Vivencia Bellegarde, aka the “EBT Voodoo Queen.” ...

Voodoo in New Orleans has its origins with enslaved West Africans, who merged their religious practices with local Catholic traditions, creating what is known as Voodoo-Catholicism.

The negative portrayal of Voodoo in American culture goes back at least to the Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s, said Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, a retired professor of African Studies at the ...