Mar 15, 2020
In Search Of… Voodoo (YouTube)
Jeb and Blake follow the In Search Of team to Haiti to learn about the mysterious religion of Voodoo. No zombies were harmed in the making of this episode.
Body Ritual among the Nacarima
Wikipedia on Hatian Vodou.
The 1864 voodoo panic via Smithsonian, by friend of the show Mike Dash.
The 1915 US Occupation of Haiti
The Haitian Revolution - a deep and complicated history
The New Orleans funeral scene from Live and Let Die
7-Up commercial featuring iconic actor Geoffry Holder
Sugar Hill (1974) voodoo blaxploitation horror
Marjoe - documentary about charismatic evangelical fraud
Serpent Handling religion can be fatal
Papa Legba song by Talking Heads
Zora Hurston - precursor to Wade Davis's Serpent and the Rainbow ethnographic work.
Serpent and the Rainbow horror movie
Veve Designs
Rada Loas - part of what the episode calls "White Voodoo"
Petro Loas - part of what the episode calls "Red Voodoo"
Ghede Loas - not included in the show
Other books mentioned:
Uncommon Ground (early African American archaeology)
Crossroads and Cosmologies (how African Americans preserved their African religious identity)
Terms:
Syncretism - the merger/combining of different beliefs
Ethnogenesis - formation/origin of an ethnic group
Nimoy Fashion Alert
