Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ouidah hosts Vodun Days, a three-day festival of dancing, mask parades and traditional ceremonies as voodoo becomes a tourist draw ...
Practitioners of Vodou (or voodoo) gathered in Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Prospect Park Saturday evening to celebrate the anniversary of Bwa Kayiman, a ceremony credited with launching Haiti’s 1791 slave revolt ...
One of the world’s oldest religions, Voodoo originated in the kingdom of Dahomey — present-day Benin — and is rooted in animism, the belief that all things, from rocks and trees to animals and places, ...
Verna Gillis audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Grabaciones sonoras de Verna Gillis, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to ...
On the newly-renovated streets of Ouidah, thousands of Beninese and foreign tourists gathered this week to discover the rituals and deities bound up with voodoo, a popular animist tradition which has ...
Verna Gillis audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Grabaciones sonoras de Verna Gillis, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to ...
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