The actor reveals that he has been cursed by his neighbor — a real-life voodoo priestess! "She tries to put voodoo curses on me," says the 24-year-old. "She's made me pretty paranoid about it.

While it’s viewed as a taboo tradition in popular culture, New Orleans residents who practice the West African religion say it’s more about healing than hexes.

Voodoo priestess Ava Kay Jones performs a purification ritual at midfield of the Dome in 2000, in the hopes of expelling any "Superdome curse." That day, the Saints won their first-ever playoff game.

At the onset of the revolution in August 1791, Boukman “presided over a ceremony alongside Voodoo priestess Cécile Fatiman.” His prayer reassured the slaves that they would overthrow the ...

Spicy peppers soaked in bottles of rum. The food is an offering to the spirits expected to dance among the revelers at Voodoo priest Erol Josue's Miami home that night.

Before the St. John’s Eve Voodoo ceremony got started, priestess Sallie Ann Glassman alerted the crowd of 100-plus along Bayou St. John to the possibility that someone could become possessed by ...