But it’s not what you might have pictured from the movies… Voodoo plays a vibrant role in New Orleans culture. Modern practices and rituals focus more on connecting practitioners to ancestors ...

They were exported to the New World, as the Americas are known here, defining today’s cultural constitution of the American continents and Caribbean. Voodoo still thrives across Haiti ...

A trace of the Polish 19th century presence is still noticeable in contemporary Haitian culture in the form of popular depictions of Ezili Dantor. Ezili Dantor is an important spirit of motherhood in ...