Rod Davis - American Voudou: Journey into a Hidden World
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This chronicle of Daviss determined search for the true legacy of voudou in America reveals a spirit-world from New Orleans to Miami which will shatter long-held stereotypes about the religion and its role in our culture. The real-life dramas of the practitioners, true believers and skeptics of the voudou world also offer a radically different entree into a half-hidden, half-mythical South, and by extension into an alternate soul of America. Readers interested in the dynamic relationships between religion and society, and in the choices made by people caught in the flux of conflict, will be heartened by this unique story of survival and even renaissance of what may have been the most persecuted religion in American history. The tensions that have arisen between Cubans and African Americans over both the leadership and the belief system of the religion is discussed. Davis raises questions and offers insight into the nature of religion, American culture, and race relations.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Davis, Rod, 1946 American voudou : journey into a hidden world / by Rod Davis. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-57441-081-4 (alk. paper) 1. VoodooismUnited States. 2. Hoodoo (Cult) I. Title. BL2490.D37 1998 299'675'0973dc21 98-21264 CIP
Design by Accent Design and Communications Photographs by Rod Davis
Page v
For Jennifer and Moriah, and the future
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CONTENTS
Preface
ix
Part One: The Street
1: Midnight Ritual
1
2: Looking for Lorita
17
3: The Gods and Their Ways
28
4: Countertop Voudou
39
5: Preacher to Priestess
53
6: Jesus Out of Africa
63
Part Two: The Road
7: On the Hoodoo Trail
75
8: Spirit Wars
89
9: Two-Headed Men and Ghosts
100
10: Elvis and Dr. King
116
11: Kindred Spirits, Lingering Foes
137
12: Crossing the Line
156
Part Three: The Way
13: Africa in America
177
14: The Day of the Living Dead
191
15: The King and His Court
207
16: Advice and Consent
216
17: Sacrifice
227
18: Exiles and Apostles
242
19: Santeria
255
20: Urban Herbs and Little Haiti
276
21: Orisha Anew
299
22: Amen
313
Appendix I: Voudou in the Media
319
Appendix II: The Revolution Denied
347
Glossary of Voudou Terms
363
Bibliography
371
Index
381
Page ix
PREFACE
For most of my life all I knew about voudou1 was what I saw in the movies: dancing zombies, chicken heads, and pins in dolls. It had something to do with the Caribbean or New Orleans. It was black. Sometimes you'd hear about it in the blues. I didn't go so far as to equate voudou with satanism, though many others did. To me, "voodoo" was mostly a weird name. It wasn't even real and certainly was nothing to take seriously.
How I subsequently came to be standing before an Elegba altar in a South Carolina forest tasting the blood of three roosters sacrificed to my spirit is therefore a tale not just about voudou, but about its effect on one who ventured into what in many ways is one of America's least-traveled frontiers.
For nearly five years before undertaking the odyssey described in this book, I had flirted with the vo-du, the spirits of West Africa (from which voudou, in all its Anglicized variations, derives), but never engaged them fully. A journalistic assignment in New Orleans in 1985 had given me my first real exposure, other than the common bits of voudouesque vocabulary"mojo" (a charm); "hoodoo" (an alteration of voudou common
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