OUIDAH, Benin (Reuters) - On Benin's national voodoo holiday, performers dressed as guardians of the night swirled in costumes resembling technicolour haystacks, delighting worshippers and tourists ...
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Benin showcases culture with Vodun Days

On the newly-renovated streets of Ouidah, thousands of Beninese and foreign tourists gathered this week to discover the rituals and deities bound up with voodoo, a popular animist tradition which has ...
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 ...
After two years of research and working with practitioners across multiple lineages, Ritualyn just launched a mobile app that ...
COTONOU (Reuters) - Tomb raiders have dug up more than 100 graves at a cemetery in Benin since Saturday for what authorities suspect is a black-market trade in human organs and skulls for voodoo ...
“We're concerned about reports that hundreds of children have been abducted from their families in Africa and trafficked to the UK, especially London, for religious rituals,” said Kristen Sandberg, ...
COTONOU, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Tomb raiders have dug up more than 100 graves at a cemetery in Benin since Saturday for what authorities suspect is a black-market trade in human organs and skulls for ...
Daredevil tourist recalls his chilling visit to the Temple of Pythons where dozens of deadly snakes slither around worshippers A MASKED goblin figure chases two unsuspecting tourists along the busy ...