The practice of Vodou, or Voodoo as it is more often known, is common in Haiti. And it's common in Boston, too. After New York and Miami, Boston has the third-largest concentration of Haitian ...

An Irish Catholic upbringing contributed to photographer Shannon Taggart’s lifelong interest in the rituals and art of religion. After photographing Spiritualists—people who believe they can ...

A drama unspools every day in Carol de Lynch’s back yard. This time a black rooster stalks a tiny kitten, recently kidnapped from the Little River streets by the pack of feline ruffians who rule the ...

In 1998, 16 years after he first became interested in visiting Haiti, photographer Anthony Karen made his first of what would be many trips to the Caribbean country. In the early 1980s, Karen had seen ...

Dana Jackson left the US on July 1, her son Timothy Jackson, told USA Today. Her goal had been to become a Manbo priestess – a female ritual specialist in the Haitian Vodou tradition who performs ...

BOSTON – Two separate crimes against children in recent days have one haunting similarity: authorities have pointed to Voodoo rituals as a possible motive. But practitioners of Haitian Vodou, which ...