Deep underwater, I found a sealed bottle filled with handwritten curses and voodoo symbols. This was no ordinary dive.

Voodoo was both an indoor and outdoor cat, announcing his comings and goings by meowing at doors and windows. "Sometimes he'd leave for a couple of days and come back a changed man," Kessler recalled.

A cross hangs on a soot-covered mantel at the French Quarter home of Jody "Cajun Queen" Boudreaux that was once the site where Voodoo practitioner Marie Laveau lived in New Orleans. A fire damaged ...

To reinforce his message, he displayed several voodoo symbols marked on his hands, stomach, back, and other parts of his body, claiming they help him communicate with his ancestors. His statement ...

The crow lay gutted on the ground in a circle of crudely drawn voodoo symbols, entrails spilling out beneath glazed black eyes, its beak open in a permanent silent caw. Though fast-rising Broward ...

The 42-year-old, the sole breadwinner of the family, was struggling with personal and financial setbacks that bore down on her every day. It was a friend she met at a recruitment agency who ...

At nearly 80 years old, Marie Catherine Laveau-Glapion, “Widow of Paris,” died in her home on June 15, 1881. She was succeeded by her daughter Marie Laveau II, who carried on the Voodoo ...

Even today, nearly 150 years after the Voodoo Queen died, people continue to visit her final resting place to honor her legacy in one of America’s most culturally rich cities. The Life And Death Of ...

Her tool was Voodoo, until then amateurishly practiced. Out of salt, pepper, graveyard dirt, twists of human hair, knucklebones from babies’ skeletons, black candles, brick dust, face powder ...

High in the voodoo hills of Haiti above Port-au-Prince, a big bonfire crackled one day last week. Some 200 Haitians, dressed in their cotton Sunday best, watched intently while an old lady threw ...

By calling his song ‘Voodoo Child’, Hendrix portrays himself as a direct descendant of both the blues tradition and, further back in time, of the African diaspora in the Americas. That he casts ...