Practitioners often invoke Papa Legba during ceremonies, asking him to open the gates to the spirit world.

The Saints actually held a Voodoo ritual in the middle of the field

He sprinkled dried snake skin, lizard skin and powdered mudpuppies on the floor. This was a dreaded hoodoo curse and when the man walked ove

One of the more serious problems in the superstition of the hoodoo charms during the late 1800s and early 1900s, was grave robbery. The sing

Zora Neale Hurston, traveled to Haiti in order to investigate tales passed on to her by American Marines of voodoo practitioners