The banks and delta of the Mono River in Benin are home to mangrove swamps which harbour fish and rare wild birds -- and some ...

All the same, this is a rich and appealing book. Humankind’s inventiveness in conceptualising the workings of the world emerges with force. Much magic is underpinned by a belief that the everything is ...

While Voodoo does involve the use of rituals, spells, and the invocation of spirits, it is often wrongly conflated with the notion of black magic. In reality, Voodoo practitioners make a ...

He met with so-called prophets who accused his relatives of conspiring with voodoo men to cast spells on him from a ... align with the elaborate rites and rituals befitting a Yoruba elder.

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These cartels, notorious for their brutality, don’t merely operate as criminal enterprises; they engage in rituals and practices that many ... there was a religious component, [a] kind of voodoo ...

Benin's Ouidah has celebrated its annual Voodoo Festival which has made the town a mecca for Voodoo worshippers as well as a tourist attraction.

As children dance with great speed and energy in colorful robes, guided by the drumbeats and chants from dance troupes, the gods and spirits that are evident all around the arena are beckoned upon ...

Featuring traditional ceremonies, dance events, and rituals in the form of incantations, adulations and offerings, Voodoo – which has its own pope whose reign dates back to the 1400s – borrows ...