voodoo-priest

Updated: June 13, 2025

Weird midnight orgies and mystic conjurations were invoked, the witch-woman and the voodoo-priest became the centre of Negro group life, and that vein of vague superstition which characterizes the unlettered Negro even to-day was deepened and strengthened.

W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk