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Photographer Stephanie Keith captures the religious ceremonies and practices hosted by Mambo Marie Carmel in New York THESE startling images show a voodoo ceremony where believers are possessed by ...

Late at night, in the basement of her modest home on New York's Long Island, Marie Carmel Charles prepares to be possessed by a mermaid. Charles, an imposing, gracious black woman who appears to be ...

With its chipped green paint and down-at-heel panelling, the entrance to Mambo Priestess Miriam Chamani's New Orleans temple looks nothing short of innocuous. But in New Orleans, nothing is quite what ...