| Voodoo in New Orleans; Investigative Files (Skeptical Inquirer January 2002) (2784 words) |
 | Voodoo's African elements include worship of loa (supernatural entities) and the ancestral dead, together with the use of drums and dancing, during which loa may possess the faithful. |
| Voodoo spread from Haiti to New Orleans in the wake of the Haitian slave revolt (1791-1804). |
| Marie was introduced to voodoo by various "voodoo doctors," practitioners of a popularized voodoo that emphasized curative and occult magic and seemed to have a decidedly commercial aspect. |
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