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 ...
After two years of research and working with practitioners across multiple lineages, Ritualyn just launched a mobile app that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...