African Diaspora and Atlantic Traditions

Pages

  • Drums and Shadows — Oral folklore from coastal Georgia collected during the 1930s WPA writers' program
  • Jamaica Anansi Stories — Classic collection of Jamaican Anansi folklore, folk music, and riddles
  • New Orleans Superstitions — Essay on Voodoo beliefs and practices in 1880s New Orleans
  • Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica — Ethnographic study of Jamaican folk beliefs, obeah, and psychic phenomena
  • The Last of the Voudoos — Account 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 Obeahs — Study of West Indian witchcraft, Vodun history, and Afro-Caribbean religion