Voodoo Practitioners Scatter After Katrina

Voodoo Practitioners in New Orleans Scatter After Hurricane Katrina
NEW ORLEANS Oct 31, 2005 — The last time Don Glossop saw his customers they were ritually burning green candles, hoping voodoo would pierce the federal bureaucracy and hasten the arrival of desperately needed relief checks.

Glossop's shop, New Orleans Mistic, has been closed since Hurricane Katrina swamped the city two months ago, and most of his clients, who practice a local variant of voodoo, have scattered across the country.

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