For some people, the mention of voodoo evokes something like a scene from the James Bond novel "Live and Let Die," featuring occult ceremonies with snakes and animal sacrifice. Animal sacrifice was ...

Lucien Yekpon, a Lome traditional healer, sat on a stool surrounded by voodoo objects -- skulls, feathers, statuettes -- to place his hand on the head of a patient and recite incantations. "You will ...

Woman arrives dancing and singing at an Epe Ekpe festival, dressed in a traditional white toga. Statue of a voodoo god in the fetish market in Lome, Togo. Monkey skulls are just a few of the animal ...

Buyers and sellers of African grey parrots at a market in Togo. [Courtesy] World Animal Protection has revealed that endangered African grey parrots and their body parts are being sold at ‘fetish’ ...

Deep in Benin — the birthplace of Voodoo itself — we entered a hidden world few outsiders are ever allowed to witness. From massive fetish markets filled with animal skulls, dried creatures, gorilla ...

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