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More than 100 graves robbed in Benin for voodoo rituals

Tomb raiders have dug up more than 100 graves at a cemetery in Benin since Saturday for what authorities suspect is a black-market trade in human organs and skulls for voodoo ritual fetishes. The ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

In Benin, Voodoo’s birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred

PORTO-NOVO, Benin -- For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get ...
NBC 10 Philadelphia

Benin's Voodoo believers struggle to protect sacred forests and their perceived spirits

For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get pregnant. Others were ...
WVEC

In Benin, Voodoo's birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred

PORTO-NOVO, Benin — For many people in Benin, the forests empowered them before they were born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get ...