But, what makes Voodoo so interesting is that it's this living relationship between the living and the dead.

That's why the Voodooists like to say that You white people go to church and speak about God.

Voodoo acolytes in a state of trance handling burning embers with impunity, a rather astonishing demonstration of the ability of the mind to affect the body that bears it when catalyzed in the state of extreme excitation.

Let me just write, just so we have it here, so you know I'm not doing some type of voodoo.

And whether it is the Penan in the forests of Borneo, or the Voodoo acolytes in Haiti, or the warriors in the Kaisut desert of Northern Kenya, the Curandero in the mountains of the Andes, or a caravanserai in the middle of the Sahara this is incidentally the fellow that I traveled into the desert with a month ago or indeed a yak herder in the slopes of Qomolangma,

The second refers to the study of syncretisms between two cultures with different stages of formal expression, such as the melange of African folk beliefs and Roman Catholicism that led to the development of Vodun and Santería, and similar mixtures of formal religions with folk cultures.