A MASKED goblin figure chases two unsuspecting tourists along the busy streets, shrouded in a long multicoloured cloak. A few ...

OUIDAH, Benin (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Saturday visited the city considered the capital of voodoo in West Africa, praying at a Catholic cathedral just across the street from a large voodoo temple ...

Zangbeto: In African Voodoo culture, the Zangbeto dance is dedicated to the night watchmen, in which a tent-like structure is activated after special chanting, and it dances continuously. Zangbeto ...

American Apparel should dismantle its “makeshift Vodou” display and not associate African spiritual traditions or religions with Halloween, Shantrelle Lewis argues at Ebony magazine. Lewis is ...

Twenty priestesses, naked from the waist up, sang and danced before spraying the watching crowd with water "blessed" by the divinities. A dozen priests surrounded him as he made incantations, threw ...

(29 Oct 2023) In Benin, Voodoo's birthplace, practitioners of the faith believe the country’s forests are home to the spirits they seek guidance from and pray to. But those woodlands in the West ...

PORTO-NOVO, Benin — For many people in West Africa's Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred ...

"A guide to 'Strange Gods, Strange Altars, ' the museum exhibit at Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo, New Orleans, Louisiana." https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac ...