Former botanist Max Gesner Beauvoir, a leader of the Haitian religion popularly known as Vodou, has died.

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In African history, the gris-gris was an amulet or symbol of good luck and spiritual protection. The practice of using a gris-gris symbol was brought…

Cheryl McLaughlin returned to her Northeast Washington home after work about two years ago to find candles flickering in her living room, with slips of paper under each that read: “make her stay” or “make her love me.” A year later, in summer 2012, McLaughlin’s estranged husband, Raymond E. Bradshaw Jr., was seen lighting paper on […]