For many in the West, Voodoo invokes images of animal sacrifices, magical dolls and chanted spells ... care system by providing religious healing. Haitian Vodou was born from the blending of ...

It’s related to the tourist industry—this idea that voodoo is about sticking pins in dolls and putting curses ... tradition ...

Though Alain Pierre-Louis grew up in a Haitian family that attended Catholic ... is that of evil spells cast by practitioners using needle-poked dolls, a falsified representation of Vodou rituals.) ...

Then look no further than the wondrous world of Voodoo, which allows the notorious ... of the screenplay featured the idea of Good Guy dolls containing "synthetic blood," which would have factored ...

To be on the safe side, a Haitian is inclined to bow to both Catholic saints and voodoo gods. Catholic denunciations of this practice seem to him nothing more than natural loyalty to one’s own ...

“Haitian voodoo is in fact real, and to dismiss the story out-of-hand rather than listen to the citizens of Springfield, Ohio confirms in the minds of many voters the stereotype of Democrats as ...

That might seem odd, considering that a generation or two ago Voodoo was widely seen by outsiders as a sinister cult, with zombies, hexes, pin-perforated dolls ... into Haitian Voodoo as a mambo ...