The practice, which merges pre-Abrahamic African religion, Christianity, and indigenous Caribbean features, has been stigmatised in the region Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up ...

As a historian who has spent several years researching the history of prosecutions for obeah in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean, I welcome Senators Lambert Brown and Tavares-Finson’s plan to ...

I was fascinated by a February 22 front page Tribune article titled “Sacrilege.” The article was about the alleged desecration of several graves at the Spikenard Graveyard off Cowpen Road. What I ...

More than a century after the Obeah Act of 1898 made the practice illegal, Obeah remains one of Jamaica’s most polarising issues. Last week, Christian groups warned that legalising it would unleash ...

Vodoun, or the voice of the gods / Joan Dayan -- Women possessed : eroticism and exoticism in the representation of woman as zombie / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- "I am going to see where my oungan ...