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 ...

Max Beauvoir, a former City College of New York chemistry major who gave up hard science for magic spirits, spell-casting and ritual animal sacrifices vital to becoming Haiti’s high priest of voodoo, ...

BOSTON – Two separate crimes against children in recent days have one haunting similarity: authorities have pointed to Voodoo rituals as a possible motive. But practitioners of Haitian Vodou, which ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Dec 23 (Reuters) - The head of Haiti&${esc.hash}39;s voodoo religion appealed to authorities on Thursday to halt bloody lynchings of voodoo priests by people who blame them for causing ...

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.

Hollywood equated voodoo with the dark side of the supernatural: Evil hexes, zombies and dolls stuck with pins often were the images conveyed in movies. The resulting popular conception of voodoo was ...

The spiritual worship of Voodoo has been part of at least five criminal cases in the the Brockton area the past few years -- from Voodoo scare tactics, spells to even murder. But experts say this is ...

For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal sacrifices, magical dolls and chanted spells. But Voodoo – as practiced in Haiti and by the black diaspora in the United States, South America and ...

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. (THE CONVERSATION) For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal sacrifices, ...