Benin festival seeks to dispel voodoo stereotypes
Modeste Zinsou, manager of Benin's Python Temple, gently drapes a live snake around a visitor's neck at the country's annual ...
Benin's mecca of spirits and gods draws tourists and followers with famed Voodoo festival
Welcome to the ancient town of Ouidah, in southern Benin, a mecca of gods and spirits where the celebration of the annual ...
Business Insider7 年
Inside West Africa's vanishing voodoo rituals — the world’s most secretive and ...
They were exported to the New World, as the Americas are known here, defining today’s cultural constitution of the American continents and Caribbean. Voodoo still thrives across Haiti ...
culture.pl9 年
Pirates, Freedom, & a Voodoo Goddess: The Story of Polish Haitians
This religious amalgam still exists today as an element of Haitian Voodoo. Not all of the legionaries were however interested in living a peaceful life on a Caribbean island. Some of them made it back ...
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New class highlights misrepresentation of Voodoo religion in Western society
The Representations of Voodoo in Popular Culture and Fiction (FRAN 325) is coming to the University of Victoria this 2025 ...
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Violence against voodoo community in Haiti: Nearly 200 dead in massacre
Nearly 200 people in Haiti were killed in brutal weekend violence reportedly orchestrated against voodoo practitioners ... capital city in the impoverished Caribbean country mired for decades ...