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 ...

With Haitian tunes echoing from the kitchen, Odeline, 9, Sevvy, 8, and their 5-year-old sister, Isa, stand before an altar with their parents, light candles and call upon Papa Legba, the Vodou spirit ...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel -- 1: Vodun and social transformation in the African diasporic experience: the concept of personhood in Haitian Vodun ...

A Haitian Vodou baptism ceremony on Dania Beach. Offerings at a Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, altar in Little Havana. A Muslim man praying inside Miami’s oldest mosque. These rituals in ...

AFAMAIN copy 39088019733823 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Part 1 What Is Haitian Vodou? -- 1 Zo Li Mache: How Haiti -- and Haitian Vodou -- Came to Be 17 -- 2 Aprè Bondye: ...

The Spiritwalker Collection transports wearers into the enchanting realm of Haitian Vodou. Each scarf in the collection celebrates a unique Lwa (Spirit) through the vibrancy of their favorite colors ...

A North Carolina man is asking for answers after his mom died while on a Vodou retreat in Haiti. Dana Jackson, 51, wanted to become a Manbo priestess. A Manbo priestess “is a female ritual specialist ...

Even with his death, Assotto Saint wanted to provoke. While dying of AIDS in the early ’90s, Saint made detailed plans for his funeral: lining up speakers, dictating which of his poems he wanted read ...