
Episode #119- Who Was the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans? (Part II)
Our Fake History
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The Origins of Voodoo
The roots of voodoo come from West Africa, specifically the regions that were most heavily affected by the transatlantic slave trade. Voodoo is a unique combination of traditional West African pagan beliefs and Roman Catholicism. Syncretism refers to a mashing up of different religious traditions to create some new form of worship.
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