Shadows cast during a Day of the Dead celebration at Petiionville cemetery in Port-au-Prince in November 2009. (Associated Press) I was driving through the Narette neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince a ...

Late at night, in the basement of her modest home on New York's Long Island, Marie Carmel Charles prepares to be possessed by a mermaid. Charles, an imposing, gracious black woman who appears to be ...

THESE startling images show a voodoo ceremony where believers are possessed by spirits, walk on fire and are blessed with machetes. The pictures were taken by New York photographer Stephanie Keith, ...

VoodooFest, a free annual festival held every Halloween at Voodoo Authentica of New Orleans Cultural Center & Collection, will be held on Sunday, October 31, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.. The festival ...

With its chipped green paint and down-at-heel panelling, the entrance to Mambo Priestess Miriam Chamani's New Orleans temple looks nothing short of innocuous. But in New Orleans, nothing is quite what ...

Photographer Stephanie Keith captures the religious ceremonies and practices hosted by Mambo Marie Carmel in New York THESE startling images show a voodoo ceremony where believers are possessed by ...