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

Modeste Zinsou, manager of Benin's Python Temple, gently drapes a live snake around a visitor's neck at the country's annual ...

Calmly, he communicates with Voodoo divinities, who transmit ancestral spirit messages to the living. My guide translates. Voodoo is founded on pleasing the spirits of passed ancestors ...

Voodoo includes the belief in both maleficent and benevolent spirits assigned to varying forces on Earth, which have a specific hierarchy and, in some cases, can represent different tribes or nations.

The Representations of Voodoo in Popular Culture and Fiction (FRAN 325) is coming to the University of Victoria this 2025 ...

Clad in white and pink, Deborah Bossou, 25, blends vibrant song with dance as she immerses herself with fellow practitioners ...

Protestants say the voodoo spirit does not embody good virtues, while Catholicism, which has been the official religion of Haiti since 1860, has over the years evolved to tolerate some cultural ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Protestants say the voodoo spirit does not embody good virtues, while Catholicism, which has been the official religion ...

He accidentally conjures up an evil African voodoo spirit the Giddeh. One by one the students are savagely dismembered when they look into the deadly eyes of the spirit. Now it's up to their ...