I first heard about Vodou when I was around 7 years old. My mother was sending me to a friend’s house for a playdate, which sparked a few memories of her own playdates past. “I’d look for a broom ...

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Vodou is a religion freighted with mischaracterizations, down to its very name, which is frequently styled incorrectly as “voodoo.” Among practitioners, the word is considered a pejorative. (Indeed, ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HaitiPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their troubles. They pause to swig rum ...

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I walk down the narrow basement stairs with ease, but before I can cross the entryway into the warm candlelit temple, the oungan, a male priest in the Haitian Vodou tradition, hands me a ceramic jar ...