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1) Devil bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan ; 11
Language
English
Description
A call to examine a skull found in a hidden floor space plunges forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan into a case that may involve ritual murder.
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
This book introduces readers to Vodou's rich history, powerful ancestors, and vibrant spirits, known as Lwa. With more than one hundred breathtaking illustrations, Vodou Visions reveals how to honor and invoke the Lwa with specific ceremonial offerings and litanies. Using methods drawn from more than twenty years of practice, Vodou priestess Sallie Ann Glassman shares purification and empowerment rituals for individuals, communities, homes and spiritual...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When Caroline Ellis takes a job as a hospice worker in Louisiana's bayous, she unlocks a deadly secret involving magic, conjure, and sacrifice that pulls her into a terrifying world of strange, frightening, and unexplained incidents. The key to escaping may lie in a decrepit attic, but if she dares to believe in what she discovers, everything she fears will become real.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When your best friend is just a tiny bit psychotic, you should never actually believe him when he says, "Trust me. This is gonna be awesome." Of course, you probably wouldn't believe a voodoo doll could work either. Or that it could cause someone's leg to blow clean off with one quick prick. But I've seen it. It can happen. And when there's suddenly a doll of YOU floating around out there - a doll that could be snatched by a Rottweiler and torn...
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Jesse and Cody's ordinary life in middle school becomes something incredibly strange when a harmless looking doll comes to life. This doll has a nasty attitude and now, Jesse and Cody have to send this creepy creature with bad manners back to where it came from. Only the doll has evil plans of its own as they race to cancel a spell before the full moon rises.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Jewell Parker Rhodes follows up her acclaimed Voodoo Dreams with a present-day mystery surrounding the gifts of an ancestor of the Voodoo Queen. Doctor Marie Levant can't explain why she's drawn to New Orleans, why it's comforting and unsettling at the same time. And she can't shake her haunting dreams. But when she delivers a dead woman's baby, Marie knows malevolent forces are at work-and it's up to her to stop them.
15) Mules and men
Author
Language
English
Description
Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Returning to her hometown of Eatonville, Florida, to gather material, Zora Neale Hurston recalls "a hilarious night with a pinch of everything social mixed with the storytelling." Set intimately within...
16) The deep
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset star as a vacationing American couple who quickly find themselves involved in a modern-day pirate tale, complete with sunken treasure and sadistic voodoo terror.
17) Darker angels
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A novel of the supernatural featuring a black shaman. In a series of stories-within-stories, various protagonists describe the man's life, including his participation in a slave revolt in Haiti and his scheme to bring to life black soldiers killed in the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Doran
Pub. Date
1935.
Language
English
Description
"The drums took on a different rhythm, rattling out a sharp staccato message, accompanied by the heavy pounding of the bass. Faster and faster flew the feet of the dancers as they whirled round the fire. Their smooth muscles writhed and cramped as under the blows of an invisible whip."
From his steamer voyage from Jazz Age New York to Cap Haitien to his punishing trek through the island's interior jungle to his rapt, yet fearful, attendance at an...
Author
Publisher
Weiser Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Does your house feel a little wonky? Is someone giving you the evil eye? Are you just having a run of bad luck or have you been cursed? Miss Aida answers all these questions and more. She offers sound, practical advice for all sorts of dicey situations, both large and small. The book is filled with rituals, spells, and Miss Aida's own personal magickal formulas for removing negative energies, breaking malevolent spells, and banishing harmful people...
