VOODOO CULTURE IN THE U.S. --  BIBLIOGRAPHY

14 May 1995

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NEWSPAPERS:

• The Daily Picayune:
  
  • "Voudou Meeting Broken Up." July 31, 1863, p. 2.
  • "The Voudou Case." August 1, 1863, p. 1.
  • "The Voudou Vessels." August 1, 1863, p. 2.
  • "The City." August 2, 1863, p. 4.
  • "The Voudou Again." October 3, 1863, p.1.
  • "Local Sketches." December 5, 1969, p.3.
  • "Back to Barbarism." June 18, 1870, p. 6.
  • "Fetish Rite -- Voudous on the Rampage.S June 26, 1870, p. 2.
  • "St. John's Eve." June 24, 1873, p. 4.
  • "The Voudou -- 'Fetish'." June 25, 1873, p. 4.
  • "At Milneburg." June 25, 1874, p, 8.
  • "St. John's Day." June 24, 1874, p. 8.
  • "Voudou Nonsense." June 26, 1874, p. 4.
  • "Fetish." June 24, 1875, p.1.
  • "St. John's Eve." June 25, 1875, p. 2.
  • "St. John Social Club." June 25, 1876.
  • "The Colored Masons." June 24, 1884, p. 2.
  • "A Voodoued Pillow." June 31, 1886, p. 6.
  • "Voodoo Worship Exists in St. Louis.S December 22, 1893, p. 2.
  • Untitled. March 17, 1914, p. 4.

  The New Orleans Times:

  • "Voudou." June 30, 1864, p. 5.
  • "A Voudou Case." June 23, 1870, p. 6.
  • "The Voudous" Day.S June 25, 1870, p. 6.
  • "Voudouism." June 28, 1870, p. 6.
  • Untitled. June 24, 1871, p. 4.
  • "Midsummer Eve." Jun 27, 1871, p. 4.
  • "The Voudoos." June 25, 1872, p. 6.
  • "The Voudou Queen in Trouble." June 26, 1872, p. 1.
  • "Making a Night of It.S June 26, 1872, p. 2.
  • "The Vous Dous Incantation." June 28, 1872, p. 1.
  • "Fetish Worship: St. John's Eve on the Lake Shore." June 25, 1873, pp. 1-2.
  • "Death Prefigured -- Voudouism as Practiced in the Jardin Mabille." June 16, 1874, p. 6.
  • "The Voudous." June 23, 1874, p. 2.
  • "Celebration of St. John's Day." June 23, 1874, p. 4.
  • "Midnight Mummeries." June 25, 1874, p. 2.
  • "Voudou Vagaries." Jume 26, 1874, p. 4.
  • Advertisement. June 22, 23, 24, 1875, p. 5.
  • "Fetish Worship." June 25, 1875, p. 2.
  • "Local Brevities." June 25, 1875, p. 4.
  • "St. John's Day." June 24, 1876, p. 4.
  • "St. John's Night." June 25, 1876, p. 12.

  The Times Democrat

  • "A Voudou Dance." June 24, 1884, p. 2.
  • "St. John's Day." Jne 25, 1884, p. 4.
  • Dance of the Voodoos." June 24, 1896, p. 2.

  The Daily States

  • "Voudouism." August 26, 1881, p. 4.
  • "His Superstitions." Oct. 15, 1899, p. 15.
  • "Voudou Coffin." Sept. 9, 1896, p. 7.
  • "Voudouism." Aug. 24, 1897, p. 8.
  • "Voudoued." June 24, 1902, p. 2.

  New Orleans Bee

  • "The Case of the Voudous." Aug. 1, 1863, p. 1.
  • "Chronique de la Ville." June 25, 1873, p. 1.
  • "Les orgies des Vaudous au Lac." June 25, 1874, p. 1.
  • "Les Voudous." June 25, 1876, p. 1.
  • "Chars De Pontchartrain." June 24, 1875, p. 1. Miscellaneous Newspapers
  • "Voudou Vagaries." New Orleans Bulletin. June 25, 1875, p. 1.
  • "Voodoo Charm 'Doctor' Makes Court Defense." New Orleans Item. Feb. 6, 1934, p.1.
  • Nott, G. W. RMarie Laveau." The New Orleans Times Picayune, Nov. 19, 1922, magazine section, p. 2.
  • Posey. "Voodoo Notes." Posey Collection, Archieves, Tulane University.
  • Tegarden, J.B. Hollis. "Voodooism." Thesis for University of Chicago Divinity School, 1924.

Submitted by :
Wole Mongo Ife
Ph.D. Fellow
Amer. Culture Studies
Bowling Green State University
Ohio 43402
wife@bgnet.bgsu.edu

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