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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: ritual voodoo + home + benin  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/13/2008)


New York Times
Voodoo Logic: So Who Cursed Whom With Jersey?
New York Times, United States - Apr 16, 2008
?So it is not about the ritual itself,? she said. ?It?s the intention of the person performing it ? the same way baptism is used by both Christians and ...
Israel at 60: ?? ?? ??
Israel e News, Israel - May 9, 2008
I would certainly never put a note in its cracks - makes me feel as though I?m performing a voodoo ritual. I love to visit the Hurva Synagogue, ...

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Jarkko Ruutu: A pest worth loving
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - May 3, 2008
A stitching needle was required to close the wound, sort of like Ruutu voodoo. "I want to win hockey games. I don't care what I look like," he said at the ...
Bipran Ki Reet
SikhSangat News, Canada - Apr 22, 2008
Do not do Dhaga (thread) or Taweet (Voodoo) which people believe does bad for others. Bani is greater than any black magic or evil power. ...
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Investigative Files: Voodoo in New Orleans
S Inquirer, S Briefs, S Features, W Columns - csicop.org
... and sold charms and potions from her home in the ... unexplained and mysterious sightings
of the great Voodoo Queen even ... of people say they were at a ritual in the ...

Science and religion at work -
JE Stevens - BioScience, 1994 - JSTOR
... fisheries, they took a careful look at local voodoo rituals. ... voodoo, and they made
friends with voodoo priests who ... Benin is the original home of the voodoo ...

io Defiant African Sisterhoods: The Voodoo Arrests of the i8$ os and 1860s in New Orleans
INAJ FANDRICH - Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World, 2005 - books.google.com
... went as far as raiding Toledano's home on Conti ... the regions around the Bight of Benin,
in Dahomey ... African Sisterhoods 197 support, a Voodoo ritual was arranged ...
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10 Defiant African Sisterhoods: The Voodoo Arrests of the i8$ os and i86os in New Orleans
INAJ FANDRICH - Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World, 2005 - books.google.com
... went as far as raiding Toledano's home on Conti ... the regions around the Bight of Benin,
in Dahomey ... African Sisterhoods 197 support, a Voodoo ritual was arranged ...

io Defiant African Sisterhoods: The Voodoo Arrests of the i8 os and i86os in New Orleans
INAJ FANDRICH - Fragments Of Bone: Neo-African Religions In A New World, 2005 - books.google.com
... went as far as raiding Toledano's home on Conti ... the regions around the Bight of Benin,
in Dahomey ... African Sisterhoods 197 support, a Voodoo ritual was arranged ...
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NIGERIA: DREAM OF FREEDOM TURNS TO PROSTITUTION NIGHTMARE -
M Journey, B Out - JENDA: A JOURNAL OF CULTURE AND AFRICAN WOMEN STUDIES, 2006 - jendajournal.com
... often coerce victims by exploiting their belief in voodoo rituals. ... run into to problems
closer to home, says Sister Florence of the Benin City group. ...
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A Healing Cult Met with the Baatombu from the North of Benin: The Kaawo -
M Abdou - Anthropology & Medicine, 2007 - informaworld.com
... with tendency to establish oneself in home pathways and ... [1] The ritual was directly ...
M. (1961) ?Hypnotic aspects of Haitian Voodoo?, International Journal ...

[PDF] The Evolution of White Voodoo in the Magical Realist Fiction of Alejo Carpentier, Lewis Nordan, and … -
L Wenger - dialnet.unirioja.es
... patiently; whereas these practices and rituals, which require ... is walking past the
Montberclair home, she looks ... inducted into the world of Voodoo through her ...

Book Review -
M Lazarus-Black - American Journal of Sociology, 1990 - historycooperative.press.uiuc.edu
... Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo is a fascinating ... of life on the Bight
of Benin (once called ... account of the ways in which ritual serves "structure ...
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[BOOK] Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau
M Ward - 2004 - books.google.com
... from Spain or Senegal, one from Benin or Belgium ... she wore to church that Sunday morning
at home. ... loud music, lewd dances, sexy songs, Voodoo rituals, and the ...

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H5N1 bird flu hits Benin, home of Voodoo ritual

Last Updated: 2007-12-17 14:14:21 -0400 (Reuters Health)

By Samuel Elijah

COTONOU, Benin - Benin, the home of ritual Voodoo sacrifice, became the latest in a string of West African states to report cases of H5N1 bird flu after laboratory tests confirmed the deadly virus on two poultry farms.

Agriculture Minister Robert Dovonou said in a statement late on Sunday that test results from a laboratory in Italy confirmed the H5N1 virus in cases discovered this month north of the capital Porto Novo and on a farm in the commercial capital Cotonou.

Benin's immediate neighbors, Nigeria, Togo, Niger and Burkina Faso, have all reported H5N1 cases. Other regional states hit include Ghana, Ivory Coast and Cameroon.

Eastern neighbor Nigeria is one of the regional nations worst affected by bird flu. It reported sub-Saharan Africa's first confirmed human death from the disease early this year.

Health experts have said they fear Benin's Voodoo priests could be particularly at risk because of their practice of tearing out the throats of live chickens in ritual sacrifices.

Voodoo "convents" are found across Benin and the ancient religion was also carried to the Caribbean, especially Haiti, by slaves shipped to the Americas by European captains and traders.

Benin first announced its suspected bird flu cases on December 7. Health Ministry officials said several hundred birds were slaughtered as a precautionary measure in a 5-km (3-mile) radius around the two separate locations. All farms in a 15-km (3-mile) radius were also disinfected.

The import of poultry into the former French colony on the Gulf of Guinea was banned and restrictions were imposed on the movement of birds between farms.

"The tests carried out on samples sent last week to Italy have shown positive...The two suspect locations are indeed infected by the group A and type H5N1 flu virus," Dovonou said.

H5N1 bird flu has killed more than 200 people around the world, mainly in Asia, since the disease re-emerged in Hong Kong in 2003, according to the World Health Organization.

So far, most human cases can be traced to direct or indirect contact with infected birds and hundreds of millions of birds have died or been culled.

Outbreaks in Africa have raised alarm bells because epidemiologists fear the continent's widespread poverty, lack of proper veterinary and medical facilities and huge informal farming sector could allow outbreaks to go unnoticed for longer, increasing the risk of the virus mutating.

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