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Description
THE INVISIBLES: VOODOO GODS IN HAITI
Book Details + Condition: McGraw-Hill Book Company (New York). First American Edition, 1969. Hardcover with dust jacket. 247 pages, with general Glossary and Glossary of Haitian Plants. Includes black-and-white photographs of secret Voodoo ceremonies. By anthropologist Francis Huxley. The work is considered one of the most thorough books on Haitian Voodoo; Huxley describes vividly his encounters with possession, magic and psychic healing. Chapters include:
- The son of a slave is a slave
- Miasmas
- Garden of Spells
- Mondesir
- Marvelous horrors
- Vivi
- Zombi and Loa
- Papa
- Apocalypse
- Initiation
- Insatiable Priestess
- And much more.
An uncommon first edition in very good condition, with firm binding; light wear to boards; interior is clean and free of markings. Dust jacket shows normal aging and wear, mainly at corners and edges; it has been price-clipped.
