LibGuides: Primary Sources: Alternative Religions, Sects, Cults and Communes: Voodoo/Vodou

Online Sources: Voodoo/Vodou

Alan Lomax Haiti Collection
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Contains various audio recordings related to Haiti including Vodoun, Mardi Gras, Bal, RaRa, etc. collected by folklorist Alan Lomax.
Vodou Archive
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"The Archive of Haitian Religion and Culture: Collaborative Research and Scholarship on Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora will create a freely accessible multimedia digital library that uses audiovisual technologies to curate, elucidate and facilitate the advanced search of the rich primary materials of a central Haitian and Haitian-American spiritual tradition in order to promote discovery and educate a broad public."
Voodoo - Chronicling America
Witchcraft Among the Negroes
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Serial: Appletons' journal: a magazine of general literature.
Title: Witchcraft Among the Negroes [pp. 666-667]
Author: Handy, Mrs. M. P.
Collection: Making of America
Zora Neale Hurston Discussing Zombies on the Mary Margaret McBride Show
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The Mary Margaret McBride program
Broadcast : 01/25/1943
Guest is writer Zora Neale Hurston. She describes her 1936 trip to Haiti.

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti by Cherel Ito
Call Number: BL2530.H3 D58 2005
ISBN: 1561765015
DVD - Documentary of the Voudoun religions of Haiti.
The Voodoo Encyclopedia: Magic, Ritual, and Religion by Jeffrey E. Anderson (Editor)
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781610692090
Includes a section of primary documents.
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston; Ishmael Reed (Foreword by)
Call Number: BL2490 .H88 1990
ISBN: 0060916494
"Based on acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica—where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer during her visits in the 1930s—Tell My Horse is a fascinating firsthand account of the mysteries of Voodoo." Amazon.com summary

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