We are not afraid to serve the spirits of Guinea.” In Haiti, the spiritual world is omnipresent, a raucous realm where voodoo, folklore, superstition, Protestant and Catholic faiths compete ...

In Haiti the spirits are as real as your wife or your dog," Corbett said. Like any other religious practice, voodoo brings great benefits, explains Warberg, the photographer. "Participation in ...

And in Haiti, the celebrations centre around honoring the Haitian voodoo spirits of Baron Samdi and Gede. Samdi, the head of the Gede family, is one of the Loa of Haitian voodoo and is often ...

Voodoo is deeply intertwined in the two strands that have shaped Haiti: African slavery and French Christian colonization. Practitioners meet to invoke spirits -- called loa or lwas in Creole ...

The Haitian military chose to broadcast the declaration of a state of siege Aug. 1 at the seemingly peculiar hour of 3 a.m., the time of night when voodoo spirits are believed to be strongest ...

But Voodoo – as practiced in Haiti and by the black diaspora in the United States, South America and Africa – is a religion based on ancestral spirits and patron saints. Known as “Vodou ...

The spirits of the dead are rising in Haiti and may descend in Chicago as observers of voodoo begin a monthlong celebration of the Gede, a family of prankster gods who rule the underworld and ...

voodoo priest La Vie Bon sings incantations to summon Haiti's spirits. Suddenly the diabolical-looking figure slumps in silence, the candle snuffs out and mustiness fills the void. A twitching ...

Haiti’s voodoo practitioners in the past have criticized Moise for appealing publicly to Christianity’s god rather than to Voodoo’s spirits. Sometimes misrepresented in Hollywood and pulp ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Voodoo priests say foreign aid and the ... About 300 adherents wearing patron spirits' colors marched Friday near the presidential palace. They poured alcohol before ...