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Lillith Dorsey, hailing from many magical traditions, including Celtic, Afro-Caribbean, Native American

spirituality. Her traditional education focused on plant science and anthropology and film

at the University of Rhode Island, New York University, and the University of London.

But her magical training includes numerous initiations in Santa Maria, Hacien de Voudune, New Orleans

Voudune, and she is a Voudou priestess. In that capacity has been doing successful magic since 1991

for a number of patrons. She is a noted author, her book is called Orricious, Godesses, and Voudou

Queens, Lillith. Welcome to the program. Oh, thank you so much for having me on. I'm excited.

How did an anthropology major get that involved in studying traditions, magical traditions like

Voudou? Well, I mean, I think it naturally flows. My specialty was anthropology or religion,

and I was a young person, and my daughters were young, and I wanted to really give them

a positive role model. And a lot of my teachers were very dismissive of Voudou as a religion or

a tradition, and anything that wasn't very standard, they just sort of, you know, poupoued at me,

and I wanted to prove them wrong, because I was tired of that, and I wanted to sort of

research stuff and put stuff out there that was different, and then it just very quickly became

a practice. So it just, and there we go. Voudou is so misunderstood, isn't it?

It is, it is. I mean, I think the mainstream media gives us this picture of Voudou dolls and,

you know, something that's highly sexualized and demonic and evil and dark in a bad way,

and that's not what it is at all. It's something that's much more beautiful and much simpler,

I think, than that, you know. It was a slave religion, so it was something that had really

strong defenses because those people were going through really, really hard times, you know,

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