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It swells from the team around me and from the 120 people -- doctors, psychologists, nurses, midwives, teachers, priests and nuns and voudoun healers -- who come to our training with great fidelity and teach the techniques they are learning from us to friends, family, and patients as soon as it is humanly possible.
James S. Gordon: In Haiti: Signs of Healing James S. Gordon 2011
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I hung around the fringes of the santería-voudoun world with her and observed a number of phenomena not easily explained by science.
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The word conjures up racialized images of voodoo (the fact that voudoun is actually a religion and not just a mockery is another battle I can't even fight here) that people with far worse intentions are all too eager to exploit.
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And I also think that the voudoun priestesses of NOLA have had their way with the Repugs.
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NOLA is so heavy with the spirits of generations of voudoun priestesses that I'm still convinced they did this.
McCain's Hero Petraeus: "I Do Think You Have To Talk To Enemies" 2009
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They practiced voudoun rituals to scare away slave traders from abducting them.
Salem Controversy Leads to Letter of Clarification | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Baby, god is, or the goddesses or the everlovin immortal voudoun priestesses of Nawlins are helping us.
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"What household tools are you using to sever the head?" and "Which of these celebrities would YOU like to see devoured by the voudoun monsters?" ended up being the most common poll questions.
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Are there any successful prosecutions of people using other religious frameworks say, voudoun to draw down death-curses, for that matter?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Former Leader of the Southern Baptist Convention 2007
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Believe it or not, all the Satanism and voudoun is part of a Communist Chinese plot to take over the island as their own Cuba-style foothold in the region!
Archive 2005-04-03 2005
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