Patrick Bellegarde-Smith Living Vodou

Published: Jan. 9, 2014, 5 p.m.

The word \u201cVodou\u201d evokes images of sorcery and sticking pins into dolls. In fact, it\u2019s a living tradition wherever Haitians are found based on ancestral religions in Africa. We walk through this mysterious tradition \u2014 one with dramatic rituals of trances and dreaming and of belief in spirits, who speak through human beings, with both good and evil potential.