Stock photography, photos: Voodoo Priestess - Benin

Stock photos of Ouidah, Benin is the Cradle of Voodoo. It is from here that voodoo in all its later forms originated, and today it is still practiced as the local religion. An elder Voodoo priestess prepares to conduct a sacrifice to the thunder god, Shango. West Africa.


Photograph: © Robert Burch

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