The complexities of voodoo date back as far as its most famous figure, Marie Laveau ... Spiritual Temple in 1990 with her late husband, Priest Oswan Chamani. “What people think of as voodoo ...

Today’s thriving witchcraft makes matters worse. Voodoo wrongly endures the hangover. Voodoo priests protect people from the evil eye, as prevention and cure, using inherited knowledge of nature.

“Voodoo is about love. It is about being in harmony with nature,” said Martine de Souza Gandjaï Mabegbé, a Voodoo Priestess in the coastal city of Ouidah. “The Europeans tried to erase it.