During her lifetime, Marie Laveau was a force of nature. She was both revered and feared by many people. She became known as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Horror movies and crime shows often tell stories about evil “voodoo doctors” who terrorize their victims with black magic. Even ...

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 to get ...

Voodoo in the American South isn’t just folklore - it’s music, mystery, candlelit rituals, whispered spells, and powerful women who commanded respect, fear, and fascination. These queens weren’t just ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The goat tethered to a tree outside of Max Beauvoir's home is doomed. Beauvoir, tall and majestic with closely cropped white hair, is a voodoo priest who was just named the ...

Ricardo Petit-Homme left Haiti when he was four, and was raised a staunch Catholic. "From christening to penance and then confirmation, I did it all," the 30-year-old interior decorator said. But not ...

For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal sacrifices, magical dolls and chanted spells. But Voodoo – as practiced in Haiti and by the black diaspora in the United States, South America and ...