Some West African villages are known for voodoo, intense rituals, powerful masked dances and fire-eating ceremonies. Art ...

Deep in Benin — the birthplace of Voodoo itself — we entered a hidden world few outsiders are ever allowed to witness. From massive fetish markets filled with animal skulls, dried creatures, gorilla ...

The spectre of voodoo hangs heavily over the Crescent City, its presence felt from within garish tourist traps and fading antebellum drawing rooms to the tiny burning altars kept hidden from prying ...

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 ...

If she runs away from her life of prostitution, her parents will become sick and die. At least that’s what this Nigerian woman believes. The threatened curse, she claims, was part of a voodoo rite ...