In 1927 journalist William B. Seabrook went to live in the jungles of Haiti, an island in the Caribbean, where he stayed with the family of a voodoo priestess who had agreed to instruct him in the island's religious customs. One day, Polynice, a Haitian...

VODOU is a sometimes misleading, but nevertheless common, name for the religious practices of the majority of Haitians. Outsiders have given the name Vodou to the complex web of traditional religious practices followed in Haiti. Only recently, and...

Vodou ceremony, Jacmel, Haiti. Vodou is a name attributed to a New World syncretistic religion, or family of religions, based on the faiths of the Ewe and related peoples of West Africa (see West African Vodun), of the Kongo people of Central Africa...

Baltimore Afro-American 06-19-1998 Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou By T. Lynn Shanklin Special to the AFRO The word vodou usually conjures up stick pins, dolls, evil spells and even zombies. Seldom is the African-derived religion, which has been practiced for...

A young man, forlorn about his love life, stands in his shorts in front of the cross of Bawon Samdi, who in Vodou tradition heads the family of spirits of the cemetery. A Vodou priest, using herbal mixtures and chicken feathers, performs a...

The Religion of Voodoo

History of Voodoo