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81) Voodoo
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Traces the origins, cults, and practices which surround voodooism including voodoo practices in the United States and modern Haiti.
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English
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"A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scienist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses"--Container.
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"Hoodoo is a bold spiritual tradition that helps enhance your well-being and solve everyday problems. This practical, do-it-yourself guide shows how to use spells, rites, recipes, mojos, and curios to enrich your life and be ready for whatever comes your way. You'll begin with the basics of Hoodoo and then gradually build your knowledge day after day. Discover the essential components for your practice, how to master the parts of your life that seem...
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Mambo Reina novels volume 2
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English
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A Vodou priestess turned amateur detective, Mambo Reina, while doing her benevolent work as a healer, investigates a ritualistic murder that leads her into a conspiracy exploiting vulnerable youth, forcing her to hone her ever-evolving skills to solve a mystery that reaches further than she imagined.
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Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Her most famous and influential is Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), co-directed with Alexander Hammid, which depicts a surrealist slippage in reality as a woman's home becomes a shifting landscape of beauty and menace.
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The house of Erzulie tells the eerily intertwined stories of an ill-fated young couple in the 1850s and the troubled historian who discovers their writings in the present day. Emilie St. Ange, the daughter of a Creole slaveowning family in Louisiana, rebels against her parents' values by embracing spiritualism, women's rights, and the abolition of slavery. Isidore, her biracial, French-born husband, is an educated man who is horrified by the brutalities...