“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 modern New Orleans voodoo priestess, Bloody Mary, told Mental Floss she has found references to a voodoo priestess or queen by the name of Brown who worked in New Orleans around the 1860s before ...

Voodoo worshippers listen to Gilbert Kakpo, a Voodoo priest who says countless people have been helped through the spirits’ powers at the Bohouezoun sacred forest in Benin, on Thursday, Oct. 5 ...

In Benin, the birthplace of Voodoo, 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 ...

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

184 killed in Haiti, U.N. says, as gang leader allegedly orders massacre of elderly on voodoo priest's advice. December 9, 2024 / 5:37 AM EST / CBS/AFP Escalating gang violence in Haiti .

Gilbert Kakpo, a Voodoo priest, stands by a sacred tree.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) Author: SAM MEDNICK Associated Press Published: 2:09 PM EDT October 29, 2023 ...

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

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