Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voodoo followers celebrate the Day of the Dead, in Port-au-Prince PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haitians honored their ancestors to ...

Voodoo rituals are more than mere show. As Yvonne Schaffler was able to demonstrate with the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, such rituals fulfill important social and therapeutic functions.

West Africa is fast gaining recognition for its wildly beautiful barren beaches, hypnotic African beats, vibrant fashions and strong cultures, which have reshaped the face of mankind. Yet, Voodoo ...

Two women in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts are facing a long list of charges after allegedly tying down and disfiguring a 5-year-old girl as part of what authorities believe to have been a Haitian ...

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 ...

MIAMI — Goat meat stewing on the stove and sweet potatoes baking in the oven. Cooked fish, complete with bones and eyeballs. Spicy peppers soaked in bottles of rum. The food is an offering to the ...

Rachel Hilaire and Peggy LaBossiere, in court in Bridgewater, Mass., on Thursday, are accused of tying down and burning a 5-year-old girl in a voodoo ritual meant to ...

Two Massachusetts women have been arrested after permanently disfiguring a 5-year-old girl during an alleged voodoo ceremony. The girl’s mother, who is of Haitian descent, had brought the child to ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Haitians honored their ancestors to mark the Day of the Dead on Tuesday in colorful voodoo rituals that offered a respite from the tough day-to-day reality of fuel ...

Haitians honored their ancestors to mark the Day of the Dead on Tuesday in colorful voodoo rituals that offered a respite from the tough day-to-day reality of fuel shortages, gang violence and rising ...