Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the last day of a three-day festival (some believe longer) known as Carnival, characterized by ...

“Voodoo is about love. It is about being in harmony with nature,” said Martine de Souza Gandjaï Mabegbé, a Voodoo Priestess in the coastal city of Ouidah. “The Europeans tried to erase it.

A prolific novelist, poet, painter and soothsayer, he was inspired by the chaos of his country and published the first novel ...

Today’s thriving witchcraft makes matters worse. Voodoo wrongly endures the hangover. Voodoo priests protect people from the evil eye, as prevention and cure, using inherited knowledge of nature.

It takes you to another level, physically and mentally.” Black is what’s known as a “voodoo nee”: a person who, like a priestess, was trained in this religious practice. Voodoo originated ...

Altès – also known as Monel Felix, Alfred Mones, "Mikanò" and "King Micanor" – took "advice from a voodoo priest", who "accused elderly people in the area" of using witchcraft to harm his ...

In one section of the sealed minutes of evidence, prosecutors "inappropriately refer to Mr. Spahic as a 'Voodoo priest,'" according to the motion. At the time of his arrest Spahic served as the ...