For decades, it has been common for people to throw around terms like “voodoo politics,” “voodoo economics,” “voodoo science” and “voodoo medicine” to reference something that they think is ridiculous ...

Twenty priestesses, naked from the waist up, sang and danced before spraying the watching crowd with water "blessed" by the divinities. The purification ceremonies in Togo are intended to promote ...

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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, ...