PORTO-NOVO, Benin -- For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ouidah hosts Vodun Days, a three-day festival of dancing, mask parades and traditional ceremonies as voodoo becomes a tourist draw ...

For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get pregnant. Others were ...

MIAMI — Goat meat stewing on the stove and sweet potatoes baking in the oven. Cooked fish, complete with bones and eyeballs. Spicy peppers soaked in bottles of rum. The food is an offering to the ...

Voodoo in the American South isn’t just folklore - it’s music, mystery, candlelit rituals, whispered spells, and powerful women who commanded respect, fear, and fascination. These queens weren’t just ...

WESH 2 NEWS IN ORANGE COUNTY, A MAN IS CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER AFTER A SHOOTING DURING A VOODOO RITUAL, ORLANDO POLICE SAY FOR NOW. DEPP ALEXIS WAS PERFORMING THE RITUAL INSIDE A HOME ON TUESDAY ...

For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get pregnant. Others were ...