BOSTON - Two separate crimes against children in recent days have one haunting similarity: authorities have pointed to voodoo rituals as a possible motive. But practitioners of Haitian Vodou, which ...

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Two separate crimes against children in recent days have one haunting similarity: authorities have pointed to Voodoo rituals as a possible motive. But practitioners of Haitian Vodou, which adherents ...

Zombies, black magic, dolls impaled with stickpins, witch doctors muttering spells and curses: Vodou, or “voodoo” as many people spell it, is the eye of a storm of fears and stereotypes. Many of them ...

The practice of Vodou, or Voodoo as it is more often known, is common in Haiti. And it's common in Boston, too. After New York and Miami, Boston has the third-largest concentration of Haitian ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. — Ricardo Petit-Homme left Haiti when he was 4 and was raised a staunch Catholic. “From christening to penance and then confirmation, I did it all,” the 30-year-old interior ...

What is the origin of vodou? The religion has its roots in West Africa, Desmangles says. It centers on a supreme being called Bondye (from the French, meaning “good god”) and deities known as lwa.

The second annual New Orleans National Vodou Day is a cross-continental summit of spiritual practitioners bolstered by a new partnership with Xavier University. Inspired by a similar event in Benin, ...