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West of Lafayette, Louisiana is the city of Crowley. Was there a murderous voodoo cult at work? Read on and find out. But before escaping from reality into legend, Barnabet hinted at something as frightening as it was fantastic.

The unusual killer, a supposed voodoo priestess named Clementine Barnabet, ultimately managed to escape into the bayou before meeting the hangman’s noose. This was especially true when the victims and perpetrators were black.īetween 19, voodoo was cited as the root cause for a string of terrible ax murders in Louisiana and Texas. Whenever strange killings occurred in New Orleans or the swamps of Florida, it was common to put the blame of voodoo. Back then voodoo was synonymous with the “barbaric” practices of deepest, darkest Africa and her descendants in the United States and the West Indies. This was especially true at the turn of the 20th century. See Also: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Voodoo Even though Francophone and Lusophone vodun, as practiced in places like Haiti, Louisiana, and Brazil, contains many Roman Catholic elements and profess a veneration of Jesus and Mother Mary, “voodoo” is still a byword for diabolism. Most closely associated with the Fon people of modern Benin, vodun, with its talk about spiritual possession and examples of ecstatic worship, appeared to be nothing less than devil worship to the first Europeans who encountered it. Before becoming the malignant religion known as “voodoo,” vodun or vodoun was the name for the ancestral customs and beliefs of West Africa.