the prayers of the Voodoo priest and somehow out here it all makes sense; the music, the myth, the magic of Louisiana all comes from the bayou. That's its secret.

Gandolfo, who is unmarried and has no children, is usually on hand to discuss voodoo history or to explain ... The eighth graders—visiting from a rural Louisiana parish—filed through the ...

Born in 1801, Laveau was a free Louisiana Creole healer ... of African American Religious History at the University of Iowa. “The commercialization of voodoo today is a part of the stereotyping ...

The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New ...

A modern New Orleans voodoo ... Louisiana tradition) and midwife, using whatever knowledge and materials she could find to care for local residents. Brown’s song is documented, too. An oral ...

In my 2023 book, “Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur,” I argue ... refer to African spiritual practices in their colonies in Louisiana and Saint-Domingue – modern-day Haiti.

Rosary Hartel O'Neill, an academic and New Orleans native, explains in "New Orleans Voodoo: A Cultural History," which she ... to Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. "Louisiana Voodoo has been heavily ...