SAVAGES

I WAS GLAD to hear that the Duvalier regime had ended. I know Haiti quite well, having been there three times under Papa Doc. These visits I risked only because I felt safe staying with the family of a diplomat; I went because I am very much interested in human psychology and in witchcraft.

Though Papa Doc, alias Francois Duvalier, had a U.S. medical degree, he worked hand in hand with bokors, the voodoo sorcerers (not to be confused with the hougans, the harmless priests). Talking to Catholic hierarchs and Baptist missionaries, I found that they all ...

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