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African Diaspora and Atlantic Traditions
African diaspora and Atlantic traditions, including Jamaican Anansi stories, Obeah, Louisiana Voodoo, New Orleans folklore, and African American coastal oral history.
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Texts
Drums and ShadowsOral folklore from coastal Georgia collected during the 1930s WPA writers' programJamaica Anansi StoriesClassic collection of Jamaican Anansi folklore, folk music, and riddlesNew Orleans SuperstitionsEssay on Voodoo beliefs and practices in 1880s New OrleansPsychic Phenomena of JamaicaEthnographic study of Jamaican folk beliefs, obeah, and psychic phenomenaThe Last of the VoudoosAccount of the last great Voodoo doctor of New Orleans by Lafcadio Hearn — a portrait of Jean Montanet, born in Senegal, who rose to become the most celebrated occultist of nineteenth-century New Orleans.Voodoos and ObeahsStudy of West Indian witchcraft, Vodun history, and Afro-Caribbean religion