📚 Voodoo

The Haitian faith: its African roots, the slander it carried in films, and its rituals described on their own terms.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject voodooism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Divine horsemen	Maya Deren	1953	10
	Folk beliefs of the southern Negro	Newbell Niles Puckett	1926	9
	Voodoo in Haiti	Alfred Metraux	1959	7
	Voodoo	Gert Chesi	1979	7
	Jambalaya	Luisah Teish	1985	7
	Voodoo in Haiti	Alfred Métraux	1959	6
	Mama Lola. Voodoo in Brooklyn	Karen McCarthy Brown	1991	6
	Vodou in Haitian life and culture	Claudine Michel	2006	5
	Voodoo Tales As Told Among The Negroes Of The Southwest	Mary Alicia Owen	2006	5
	Vodou et névrose	J. C. Dorsainvil	1931	3
	Voodoos and obeahs	Joseph J. Williams	1932	3
	Voodoo in New Orleans	Robert Tallant	1946	3
	The complete book of voodoo	Robert W. Pelton	1972	3
	The Voudon Gnostic Workbook	Michael Bertiaux	1988	3
	Blue roots	Roger Pinckney	1998	3
	Vodou	Phyllis Galembo	1998	3
	Vodou visions	Sallie Ann Glassman	2000	3
	The Haitian vodou handbook	Kenaz Filan	2006	3
	Mysteries and Secrets of Voodoo, Santeria, and Obeah	Patricia Fanthorpe	2008	3
	Old Rabbit, the voodoo, and other sorcerers	Owen, Mary Alicia	1893	2
	Mythologie vodou (rite arada)	Milo Marcelin	1949	2
	El monte, igbo, finda, ewe orisha, vititi nfinda	Lydia Cabrera	1954	2
	Tradition voudoo et le voudoo haïtien	Milo Rigaud	1970	2
	Dieu dans le vaudou haïtien	Laënnec Hurbon	1972	2
	Voodoo charms and talismans	Robert W. Pelton	1973	2
	Vodú y magia en Santo Domingo	Carlos Esteban Deive	1975	2
	Le vaudou	Willy Apollon	1976	2
	Vodou et quimbois	Gerson Alexis	1976	2
	Voodoo & hoodoo	James Haskins	1978	2
	Rootwork and Voodoo in Mental Health	Kwabena Faheem Ashanti	1987	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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