Vodou, Vodoun, Vodun, Voodoo

Endless Shifting: A Feast of Images Swallowed by Sound An interview with Adi Newton by Jack Sargeant

by jack sargeant

published in Abraxas, Issue 2 (Summer Solstice 2011), Fulgar.

"They won't stay dead!": Zombiefilmens utveckling ("They won't stay dead!": The Development of Zombie Cinema")

by Per Faxneld

Published in "I nattens korridorer: Artiklar om skräck och mörk fantasy" (Saltsjö-Boo, 2004).

Vodou's View of the Quake

by Elizabeth McAlister

Rara!: Vodou, Power, and Performance In Haiti and Its Diaspora

by Elizabeth McAlister

Notes on vodun imagery in southern Benin. Observing an African religious modernity

by Joël Noret

published in A. Bouttiaux and A. Seiderer (eds), Fetish Modernity, Tervuren, MRAC, 2011, p. 98-103.

Self-reflexivity and Historical Revisionism in Ishmael Reed's Neo-hoodoo Aesthetics

by Santiago Juan-Navarro

Published in The Grove: Working Papers on English Studies, 17 (2010): 77-100.

Throughout his literary career, African American novelist Ishmael Reed has shown constant concern for historical... more Throughout his literary career, African American novelist Ishmael Reed has shown constant concern for historical issues and for their expression through reflexive narratives. This blend of the historical and the aesthetic is one of the many amalgamations that are achieved in his texts. In terms of both form and ideology his work is characterized by syncretism. In form, all novels he has published to date overstep the boundaries among genres, as well as the gulf between academic and popular culture; in ideology, Reed supports multiculturalism as an expression of the plurality that constitutes US society. This essay explores how Reed's novels seek to produce a narrative hybrid that blends fiction and reality, satire and mysticism, the mass media and the AfrÍcan and Western literary traditions.

How To Make A Horcrux

by Leo Ruickbie

Paranormal, 55, January 2011, pp. 20-4

[Beliefs and practices concerning the idea of the external soul in folklore and magic]

The Horcrux is a... more [Beliefs and practices concerning the idea of the external soul in folklore and magic]

The Horcrux is a gruesome mystery at the heart of the later Harry Potter books. In 'How To Make A Horcrux' we will go where Magick Moste Eville fears to tread and reveal the secrets of spirit capture and containment.

In folklore, folk cutsom and magic there is a long tradition of what is known as the 'external soul', whereby the spirit/soul can be removed from the physical body for protection or harm. This article explores that tradition from Koschei the Deathless to Haitian Zombie Bottles.


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Between Authenticity and Nostalgia. The Making of a Yoruba Tradition in Southern Benin

by Joël Noret

published in African Arts, 41 (4), 2008.

Mémoire de l'esclavage et capital religieux. Les pérégrinations du culte egun dans la région d'Abomey

by Joël Noret

published in Gradhiva (n.s.), 8, 2008.

This article concerns memories of slavery in the Abomey region, in the heart of Fon country and of the pre-colonial... more This article concerns memories of slavery in the Abomey region, in the heart of Fon country and of the pre-colonial kingdom of Dahomey, such as they are revealed through the Egun cult, a Yoruba form of ancestor cult. In the debates which have surrounded the apparition and then the development of this cult, which began principally among Yoruba with slave origins, there are noticeable continuities and slippages in the place made for slavery in Abomey society. One discerns simultaneously the emergence, in the lineages claiming Yoruba origins, of attempts at liberation from the stigma of slavery and at a claim of Yoruba authenticity. Involvement in the Egun cult, at first tolerated and later appropriated by the Fon, is at the centre of this process.

En finir avec les croyances? Croire aux ancêtres au Sud-Bénin

by Joël Noret

published in J. Noret and P. Petit (eds), Corps, performance, religion. Etudes anthropologiques offertes à Philippe Jespers, Paris, Publibook, 2007.