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Saturday September 27, 2008
SanteriaVoodoo:
voodo Michelle Wood said she was attacked by members of a voodoo group when she refused to participate in drug use and devil worship in a ceremony related to the autumnal equinox.

But cult experts said Wood’s story didn’t line up with known voodoo practices.
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Thursday September 25, 2008
CultsSanteriaVoodoo:
voodoo The account of a woman recovering from critical injuries she said were inflicted by members of an occult group may be difficult to unravel because it doesn’t match the typical methods used by such groups, an expert in cult activities said Wednesday.

Meanwhile, police investigators released little new information about the case but cult experts and police documents raise some questions about the woman’s account.
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Wednesday September 24, 2008
SanteriaVoodoo:
Santeria Voodoo A woman found beaten and lying on the side of U.S. 1 in St. Johns County told deputies she ended up that way after a voodoo ceremony in Flagler County related to the autumnal equinox.

Michelle Rene Wood, 42, of Palm Coast was found covered in blood with both eyes swollen shut early Monday, according to a St. Johns County sheriff’s report. A rope was tied around her right wrist and a bungee cord around her left ankle, the report states.
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Saturday April 5, 2008
Voodoo:
Max Beauvoir, tall and majestic with closely cropped white hair, is a voodoo priest who was just named the religion’s supreme master, a newly created position that is aimed at reviving voodoo.
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Tuesday October 30, 2007
Voodoo:
A preacher used black magic to terrorise a friend into smuggling £500,000 worth of cocaine into Britain, a court heard on Monday.
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Thursday October 25, 2007
Voodoo:
Police in the Netherlands say they have cracked a crime ring which allegedly trafficked Nigerian children into the West to work as sex slaves.
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Monday September 11, 2006
Voodoo:
Taipei, Sep 10 (DPA) Opponents of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian have found a new weapon to try to bring about his downfall - voodoo dolls.
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Friday September 1, 2006
Voodoo:
STATEN ISLAND -- Police said a father, convinced he was the victim of a voodoo curse, apparently drowned his two young children in a bathtub and then killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train.
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Monday August 21, 2006
Voodoo:
Jilted man built shrine of former girlfriend's underwear
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Wednesday July 19, 2006
Voodoo:
SAUT D'EAU, Haiti (AP) -- Bearing offerings of rum and freshly slaughtered goats, thousands of Voodoo faithful bathe in sacred waterfalls, praying for a better life and an end to the spiraling violence that threatens to destabilize Haiti's new government.
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Saturday April 1, 2006
Voodoo:
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A Haitian woman facing federal charges after a human skull was found in her luggage has reached a plea deal, her lawyer said Friday.
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Wednesday February 15, 2006
Voodoo:
Priests who tear out the throats of live chickens in ritual sacrifices to voodoo gods may risk contracting bird flu now the deadly virus has reached Africa.
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Saturday February 11, 2006
Voodoo:
He was a black man, in his 30s or 40s, buried sometime in the last year.
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Tuesday November 1, 2005
Voodoo:
NEW ORLEANS, (AP) -- The last time Don Glossop saw his customers they were ritually burning green candles, hoping voodoo would pierce the federal bureaucracy and hasten the arrival of desperately needed relief checks.
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Wednesday November 3, 2004
Voodoo:
A teenager was turned into a "sex slave" by two sisters who threatened her with voodoo, a court has heard.
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Friday April 23, 2004
Voodoo:
The exclusion of Vodou practitioners in plans to uplift Haiti will keep the country in a chaotic state, a Vodou priest said Wednesday.
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Tuesday April 13, 2004
Voodoo:
Hundreds drawn to sacrificial ceremonies
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Monday January 12, 2004
Voodoo:
COTONOU : Draped in animal skins with bones and fetish charms clattering, thousands of west Africans, Americans and Caribbean islanders are trooping into tiny Benin ahead of Saturday's annual voodoo festival in the southern town of Ouidah.
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Monday January 5, 2004
Voodoo:
An American lawyer has been convicted of money laundering after a trial disrupted by allegations that voodoo magic was being used to influence the outcome.
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Tuesday November 11, 2003
Voodoo:
In a West London council flat, an African witch doctor gives a blood-curdling account of the ritual slaughter of a child and reveals the growing menace in Britain of Voodoo
» Full Story

Thursday November 6, 2003
Voodoo:
AMSTERDAM — A 24-year-old woman was sentenced on Wednesday in the Leeuwarden Appeals Court to 18 months jail for assaulting a five-year-old girl during a voodoo-like ritual. Intended to rid the victim of the devil, the ritual killed the girl.
» Full Story

Sunday July 27, 2003
Voodoo:
Associated Press, July 26, 2003
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Tuesday April 8, 2003
Voodoo:
DPA, Apr. 8, 2003
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Sunday February 23, 2003
Voodoo:
Associated Press, Feb. 23, 2003
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Monday December 2, 2002
Voodoo:
Sunday Mail (Australia), Dec. 2, 2002
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