Visiting tourists asked favors of voodoo practitioners, who made it a point never to refuse one who asked for help.

According to Patrick, after being taken to countless faith healers, witch doctors and voodoo practitioners, the final straw was an embarrassing spin the bottle game.

Yeah, but voodoo practitioners are more likely to use poison.

"That's not why I need a voodoo practitioner."

People who monitor religious belief in the New Orleans area, however, put the number of voodoo practitioners here well into the tens of thousands or beyond.

I knew people that had studied with animators or voodoo practitioners to acquire the skills needed to raise the dead.

In this case, they may be summoned back by a voodoo practitioner, or simply refuse to leave.

Jack's housekeeper Nettie, a voodoo practitioner, senses the change in Jack.

The plantation is also reportedly haunted by a young girl who died in 1868, despite being treated by a local voodoo practitioner.

But a small segment of voodoo practitioners believe that a spiritual marriage can actually be an alternative to the more traditional one.