GRESSIER Haiti -- In a dark airless temple decorated with paper flags and moldering food voodoo "houngan" Adnor Adely takes on the look of one possessed. His eyes shut tight. His shoulders hunch. His ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haiti‘s voodoo priests are objecting to anonymous mass burials as an improper way to handle the tens of thousands of dead from the earthquake — and have taken their complaint to ...

The head of Haiti's voodoo religion appealed to authorities Thursday to halt bloody lynchings of voodoo priests by people who blame them for causing the Caribbean country's deadly cholera epidemic.

Max Beauvoir, a former City College of New York chemistry major who gave up hard science for magic spirits, spell-casting and ritual animal sacrifices vital to becoming Haiti’s high priest of voodoo, ...

Port-au-Prince — Like a “Hogan’s Heroes” episode where the captors are actually the captives, the Haitian military government repeatedly played the video of the Haitian voodoo rock group, RAM, singing ...

Claudette Munro, administrator of a decrepit children’s hospital in the northern seaside city of Gonaives, says voodoo priests in the area have concocted a potent weapon should U.S. troops invade ...

For centuries, Haitians have turned to voodoo priests in times of illness, heartbreak, and confusion, relying on the native clergymen to counsel them or take up their case with the powerful African ...

There are many factors which have determined and over-determined the miserable history of Haiti, to which almost everybody had become accustomed. The recent plague, however, provoked a moment of pity ...

In this tiny village of a few dozen whitewashed mud huts, the power of voodoo becomes unmistakable during these last two weeks of August. In Mama Lemba, a large black woman dressed all in white for ...

GRAND-BERA, Haiti (Reuters) – Anaira Jules, who lived her whole life in a small hamlet in rural Haiti, had never set foot on a plane. But for her last journey, she was sent off in a gleaming white, ...

“Madame Dread: A Tale of Love, Voodoo and Civil Strife in Haiti” by Kathie Klarreich (Nation Books). According to a Creole proverb, truth is like oil in water; it always comes to the surface. Kathie ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - At least 45 people have been killed across Haiti due to accusations they are using "black magic" to spread cholera, the director of a Voodoo association said Friday. Most of ...