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Episode #119- Who Was the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans? (Part II)

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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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