Word: voodooism
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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...
...extravagant coloring which Negroes are supposed to like, were good. Technically, the best were Artist Motley's studies of mulattoes, octaroons, quadroons, his Portrait of My Grandmother, and a gay and decorative panel, Parade. Ralph Pulitzer bought Octaroon. But the spectacular and atmospheric illuminations of East African voodooism were more original and hence more noticed. Painter Motley has seen the crowd of anxious dark faces at a fortune teller's door, waiting to be told what numbers to bet on in a gambling game. He paints the same crowd, their black skins grey in the light...
...first performance of the annual Pi Eta Society show, "The Lady Decides," an artful composition blending voodooism and a suffragette millenium, will be given at the club theatre Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. "The Lady Decides" will thereupon go on tour, playing in Quincy March 17, in Andover March 18, in Salem March 22, and in Jordan Hall, Boston, March 23, when the company will return to Cambridge for a final public performance March...