Disciples fill Faizah Perry's sunny suburban Houston home for a day of worship as chanting emanates from a sheet-curtained side room in which she divines the future and enacts other secret rituals.

Customers ask for the strangest things in botanicas, little stores that sell candles, potions, statues and other spiritual sundries used to summon gods and goddesses, saints and demons, from religions ...

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CARACAS, Venezuela -- The man says he is possessed by a god. He shouts, his body trembles and he lifts a sacrificed lamb to his lips, drinking its blood from the jugular. This initiation ceremony, ...

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. - Lisa Massa smokes a cigar as she pours prosperity oil and honey into a candle jar behind the counter at Botanica St. Lazarus. She blows smoke into it for good luck and throws in ...

From a two-room concrete home on the fringes of Cuba’s capital, the rumble of wooden drums spills out onto the streets. Neighbors gather at the door and kids climb a fence to peer inside. They watch ...

Tis the season of the dead: from Halloween to All Saint's Day, when traditionally Christian societies venerate those who have passed on. But for practitioners of the Afro-Cuban philosophy of Santería, ...

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NEW YORK – Wynton Marsalis opened Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2014-15 season with the world premiere of ‘Ochas,’ a three-movement suite blending jazz with the traditional folkloric music of Cuba and the ...

POMPANO BEACH — Lisa Massa smokes a cigar as she pours prosperity oil and honey into a candle jar behind the counter at Botanica St. Lazarus. She blows smoke into it for good luck and throws in a ...

Zombies, voodoo dolls, evil spells, animal sacrifices and Hollywood horror scenes of possessed people drinking blood: When you hear the words “Voodoo” and “Santería,” chances are those are the images ...