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What is Haitian Voodoo?

  • Written by Guilberly Louissaint, Anthropology Ph.D. Student, University of California, Irvine
What is Haitian Voodoo?Voodoo believers walk during the annual Voodoo festival Fete Gede at Cite Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery

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...

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