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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haitians honored their ancestors to mark the Day of the Dead on Tuesday in colorful voodoo rituals that offered a respite from the tough day-to-day reality of fuel shortages ...
“Antre Kanzo—Cracking the Petwo Whip.” Vodou Archive. University of Florida Digital Library Center, n.d. Web. 15 May 2014. Arthur, Charles and Michael Dash, ed. “Chapter 8: Popular Religion and ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's voodoo leaders have trained priests of the Afro Caribbean religion to concoct a secret remedy for the novel coronavirus and to prepare the sacred initiation chambers ...
Max Gesner Beauvoir, the supreme chief of the voodoo religion, died at the age of 79 in the Haitian capital, his relatives announced. Beauvoir, a biochemist by training, was named in 2008 the ...
The head of Haiti's voodoo religion appealed to authorities Thursday to halt bloody lynchings of voodoo priests by people who blame them for causing the Caribbean country's deadly cholera epidemic.
Migration from Haiti has spiked in recent months, as people flee a worsening crisis that has seen criminal gangs take control of swaths of territory - Copyright AFP ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Haitians honored their ancestors to mark the Day of the Dead on Tuesday in colorful voodoo rituals that offered a respite from the tough day-to-day reality of fuel ...
Haitians honored their ancestors to mark the Day of the Dead on Tuesday in colorful voodoo rituals that offered a respite from the tough day-to-day reality of fuel shortages, gang violence and rising ...