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Hurston, Zora Neale.

Tell my horse : voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a new foreword by Ishmael Reed ; series editor: Henry Louis Gates.

1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.

New York : Harper Perennial, 2009.

viii, 311, 16 pages : illustrations, music ; 21 cm.

The author recounts her experiences as an initiate into the voodoo practices of Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930s.

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Harper Perennial modern classics.

Vodou -- Haiti.

Vodou -- Jamaica.

Haiti -- Description and travel.

Jamaica -- Description and travel.

Voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica

"With an afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr."--Cover.

"P.S. insights, interviews & more ..."--Cover.

Originally published in hardcover: J.B. Lippincott, ©1938. First Perennial Library edition published, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-304).

pt. I. Jamaica. The rooster's nest -- Curry goat -- Hunting the wild hog -- Night song after death -- Women in the Caribbean -- pt. II. Politics and personalities of Haiti. Rebirth of a nation -- The next hundred years -- The black Joan of Arc -- Death of Leconte -- pt. III. Voodoo in Haiti. Voodoo and voodoo gods -- Isle de la Gonave -- Archahaie and what it means -- Zombies -- Secte rouge -- Parlay cheval ou (tell my horse) -- Graveyard dirt and other poisons -- Doctor Reser -- God and the Pintards -- Appendix. Songs of worship to voodoo gods -- Miscellaneous songs.

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