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Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the last day of a three-day festival (some believe longer) known as Carnival, characterized by ...

“They practice in a closed secret sect so they are unidentifiable. Some admit, on their deathbed, the murders they’ve caused,” continues Mr Akakpo. His uncle, the late Voodoo Pope Sossa ...

it's really where -- Haiti is where voodoo comes from in the Western hemisphere. So it's brought from a lot of much more ancient tribal African practices that were brought along. You know ...

“That’s voodoo in plain sight,” says Cinnamon Black, a tour guide at the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum. “The spirituality and music move people. It takes you to another level ...

But it’s not what you might have pictured from the movies… Voodoo plays a vibrant role in New Orleans culture. Modern practices and rituals focus more on connecting practitioners to ancestors ...