Word: voodooed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fling and consequences form the action of The Pencil of God, an engrossing novel about the damage wrought by African voodoo on middle-class Haitians. Product of a miniature literary renaissance in Haiti, The Pencil of God gleams with quaint freshness, a strange blend of Haitian folklore and Western sophistication. To many U.S. readers the world of Diogène Cyprien may, in fact, seem almost outlandish: here the symbols of voodoo and Roman Catholicism merge in half-enlightened minds, men are possessed by implacable spirits they cannot control, and the day-to-day world is seen as an acting...
Ruin & Flames. In desperation, Diogène resorts to voodoo. He attends the "baptism" of Lourdes's baby, which involves dousing it in a basin of rum and perfume and then passing it over flames. He allows his wife to be treated by a voodoo sorceress who whips her seven times and plunges her into a foul bath prepared from sea water, herbs and asafetida. But even Diogène himself feels it is too late. A few days later his eldest boy dies in a fever. His wife gone mad, Diogène himself is found dead...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Oct. 24)--A sunken-eyed zombie, burned for wizardry and dead for 76 years, is our hottest lead to date. He prognosticates hurricanes and mango blights in the thick voodoo country northeast of here...
Bearing gifts of incense for the occult natives, pairs of newsmen headed for Haiti's voodoo country, forbidden Tibet, the Congo, and mystic Baffin Island to replace wizened H Flung Huey ocC, whose untimely resignation came Sunday night...
...addition, the company won an assortment of experimental orders for aircraft, including the long-range penetration XF-88 Voodoo fighter, the tiny, bomber-borne XF-85 parasite jet fighter, the first ramjet helicopter ("Little Henry"), radio-controlled bombs and jet-powered "drone" aircraft to simulate attacks on fighter pilots during training...