Word: voodooed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outside Port-au-Prince, a grizzled ex-U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate downed a tumbler of mahogany-colored Haitian rum. Through the low-hanging hibiscus and poinsettia came the first tentative beating of evening drums. To Stanley Henry ("Doc") Reser, Haiti's leading U.S born voodoo- practitioner, the sound was a call to ceremonies at the nearby temple in honor of Ogoun Ferreille, god of war and ironworkers...
Before the open, thatched voodoo altar, a hundred black friends crowded to greet him. With practiced authority, he poured rum libations and muttered Creole incantations, then genially beat drums and rattled gourds, joined in the shuffling and shimmying around the sacred poteau (post). As the dancing grew more boisterous, women screamed, thrashed, moaned, kicked, bounced bonelessly and collapsed -"possessed" by the loa (god) of the night. Though no loa "mounted" him, Doc Reser danced, drummed and drank happily till dawn...
...world, he went to the island 25 years ago as a chief pharmacist's mate assigned to conduct horseback clinics for ailing peasants. Reser took to the people and their tropical ways at once. He studied the properties of native herbs, listened to the advice of voodoo doctors...
...when he was sent to Pont Beudet to take charge of an insane asylum, he was already deep in voodoo lore...
Lydia Bailey--An adaptation of Kenneth Robert's novel of sex and voodoo in Haiti. Starts Wednesday at the RKO Memorial...