One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Vodun is an ancient religion practiced ...

For some people, the mention of voodoo evokes something like a scene from the James Bond novel "Live and Let Die," featuring occult ceremonies with snakes and animal sacrifice. Animal sacrifice was ...

Samantha McEwen’s debut collection explores the mysterious culture behind voodoo, ritual sacrifice, and muti killings in South Africa. The Edinburgh Heriot-Watt University grad mixes these macabre ...

Zangbeto: In African Voodoo culture, the Zangbeto dance is dedicated to the night watchmen, in which a tent-like structure is activated after special chanting, and it dances continuously. Zangbeto ...

OUIDAH, Benin — Democracy came to the cradle of Voodoo religion in 1991, when Benin’s military dictator of many years surprisingly lost an election that he had organized. Mathieu Kérékou had amassed ...

For decades, it has been common for people to throw around terms like “voodoo politics,” “voodoo economics,” “voodoo science” and “voodoo medicine” to reference something that they think is ridiculous ...

OUIDAH, Benin, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Saturday visited the city considered the capital of voodoo in West Africa, praying at a Catholic cathedral just across the street from a large voodoo ...

Second lines are a signature of New Orleans culture—­presented for various occasions, including funerals. But there’s an often overlooked connection between the celebratory procession that precedes a ...

Daagbo Hounon Houna II, the Supreme Spiritual Voodoo Chief, surrounded by priestesses, is interviewed by The Associated Press, in Ouidah, Benin, May 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) (AP Photo/Sunday ...

Woman arrives dancing and singing at an Epe Ekpe festival, dressed in a traditional white toga. Statue of a voodoo god in the fetish market in Lome, Togo. Monkey skulls are just a few of the animal ...