OUIDAH, Benin (Reuters) - On Benin's national voodoo holiday, performers dressed as guardians of the night swirled in costumes resembling technicolour haystacks, delighting worshippers and tourists ...
MIAMI — Goat meat stewing on the stove and sweet potatoes baking in the oven. Cooked fish, complete with bones and eyeballs. Spicy peppers soaked in bottles of rum. The food is an offering to the ...
Before the St. John’s Eve Voodoo ceremony got started, priestess Sallie Ann Glassman alerted the crowd of 100-plus along Bayou St. John to the possibility that someone could become possessed by a ...
1. Introduction -- 2. Vodun as a Religious System and Way of Life -- 3. The Music of the Rada Rite -- 4. Drums, Drummers, and Oungenikon in Haitian Rada -- 5. The Music of the Rada Battery -- 6. The ...