What is Haitian Voodoo?
- Written by Guilberly Louissaint, Anthropology Ph.D. Student, University of California, Irvine
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...