Former botanist Max Gesner Beauvoir, a leader of the Haitian religion popularly known as Vodou, has died.
NEW YORK – Marie Lauradin plead guilty to first-degree assault charges for lighting her 6-year-old daughter on fire in a voodoo ritual to get rid of evil spirits. The New York Daily News reports: Lauradin, 30, admitted pouring rum over daughter Frantzcia Santil’s head during the June 2009 incident in the basement of her Queens […]
Queens, New York– Auctioneers were very cautious after finding voodoo dolls that are possibly a century old in the Historic Steinway Mansion. The mansion which is being sold for $2.5 million was being cleared after the death of the last owner, Michael Halberian, who lived there for 82 years. The experts who made the discovery […]
HAITI-AFP There are reports in Haiti, that people connected to Voodoo are being lynched and burned in Haiti because some Haitians feel that they are responsible for the cholera epidemic. The AFP reports: Angry Haitian mobs have lynched at least 45 people in recent weeks, accusing them of spreading a cholera outbreak that has killed […]
