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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 ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Dressed in white, shaking decorated gourd rattles and singing praises to "Olorum Papa" (God the Father), several hundred practitioners of Haiti's voodoo religion held a ...
Voodoo ceremony for twins in Benin to celebrate them as deities ...
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 ...
Verna Gillis audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Grabaciones sonoras de Verna Gillis, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to ...