As one walks into the Voodoo Spiritual Temple, the sweet scent of incense fills the small French Quarter shop cramped with voodoo dolls, gris-gris bags and charms. Deeper into the shop, past the ...
The small room is dark and stuffy. The air is pungent with the dusty scent of old things. Against one wall is an altar filled with plaster saints, saint cards, white tapers and red votive candles. In ...
HAITIANS have been celebrating the Day of the Dead festival when voodoo followers remember their ancestors. The raucous two-day long event sees bones left on altars by followers who say they are ...
The touristy Marie Laveau’s House of Voodoo sells a host of items, including Amazonian fish scales for endurance and Marie Laveau Zippo lighters. (Photo by Norma Meyer) Voodoo priest Papa Zaar ...