Dr. John, who brewed up a gumbo of rock, blues, jazz, funk and New Orleans voodoo mysticism that took him to the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, died Thursday morning after he suffered a heart attack, his ...

FORT LAUDERDALE — Sonny Irons woke up at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday and found a strange object on his front lawn: a four-foot stick with raw chicken legs, candles and red, white and black ribbon tied to ...

TIJUANA, Mexico -- Police running scared from drug gangs in one of Mexico's deadliest cities are using bizarre rituals involving animal sacrifice and spirit tattoos to seek protection from raging ...

In 1998, 16 years after he first became interested in visiting Haiti, photographer Anthony Karen made his first of what would be many trips to the Caribbean country. In the early 1980s, Karen had seen ...

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, ...