Word: voodooism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long third finger. Savage Rhythm. Nowadays it is hard to tell what the once happy-go-lucky Producer John Golden is going to serve up next. The scene of his latest presentation is laid in the Mississippi swamps, where Playwrights Harry Hamilton and Norman Foster would have you believe voodooism is still rife. Savage Rhythm has to do with a black girl named Miss Orchid, who has come home from a big theatrical success on Broadway. The Negro she chooses happens to be one her Sister Florabel is also fond of. Thereupon Florabel picks another man, an unfortunate choice because...
Cuba's Department of Interior reacted to the outrage by announcing "a crusade against Voodooism in the towns of Candelaria, Artemisa and San Cristobal," all in Pinar del Rio province some 150 miles from Catholic Havana...
Religion. Although urban Cubans are mostly Catholic, Voodooism flourishes in small towns and "up country." Within the fortnight Mayor Miguel Quintana of Pueblo Nueva has confessed that he and three other Negro townsmen recently sacrificed eight-year-old Martin Perez to Voodoo Goddess Chantong...