High in the voodoo hills of Haiti above Port-au-Prince, a big bonfire crackled one day last week. Some 200 Haitians, dressed in their cotton Sunday best, watched intently while an old lady threw ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voodoo believers walk during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. AP Photo/Dieu ...

Haiti's government has officially sanctioned voodoo as a religion, allowing practitioners to begin performing ceremonies from baptisms to marriages with legal authority. Many who practice voodoo ...

Introduction -- 1: Cargo for Good Friday -- 2: No way out -- 3: Son of a slave is a slave -- 4: Miasmas -- 5: Garden of spells -- 6: La Science -- 7: Mondesir -- 8: Marvellous horrors -- 9: Vivi -- 10 ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s voodoo leaders have trained priests of the Afro Caribbean religion to concoct a secret remedy for the novel coronavirus and to prepare the sacred initiation chambers ...

FOOTIE-daft Haitians are calling on voodoo gods to help them defeat Scotland in our World Cup opener, we can reveal. The Caribbean nation’s fans hope ancient religious rituals, including the use of ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Dressed in white, shaking decorated gourd rattles and singing praises to "Olorum Papa" (God the Father), several hundred practitioners of Haiti's voodoo religion held a ...

When Columbus first landed in northern Haiti (Hispaniola) in 1492, he captured a lovely Indian girl who was expensively but sparsely clad—with a golden nose plug and nothing else. Next day he found a ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's voodoo leaders have trained priests of the Afro Caribbean religion to concoct a secret remedy for the novel coronavirus and to prepare the sacred initiation chambers ...

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