While voodoo continued relatively unabated in West Africa — it is still an official religion in Benin with more than 4 million followers there alone — it left African shores in the 17th ...

Jerry Gandolfo opened the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum with his brother in 1972, and for the past 30 years has spent his time researching the history and development of the practice. While ...

Talk to Julye Bidmead about Voodoo and she’ll dispel most of the things that might come to mind. It’s not about curses, zombies or pincushion dolls, and it certainly doesn’t involve human ...

Santeria, which means “involving the saints,” came to South Florida — primarily Dade County — with Cubans in the ’60s. Vodu, voodoo in this country, followed with the Haitians in the ’80s.

Everywhere, shelves are jammed with moss-stuffed voodoo dolls, good-juju “gris-gris” bags (more potent if they include the recipient’s fingernails), carved African statues, and a “wishing ...