{"id":10151,"date":"2012-08-15T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildhunt\/?p=10151"},"modified":"2012-08-15T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T17:00:49","slug":"interview-with-a-vodou-priestess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildhunt\/2012\/08\/interview-with-a-vodou-priestess.html","title":{"rendered":"Interview with a Vodou Priestess"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The Times Picayune interviews Sallie Ann Glassman<\/a>, an initiated Vodou priestess who runs the Island of Salvation Botanica<\/a> in New Orleans, and is author of\u00a0\u201cVodou Visions: An Encounter With Divine Mystery.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Glassman has been gaining increased media attention lately because of her relationship with comedian Joan Rivers<\/a>, who is performing at a benefit for the\u00a0\u00a0New Orleans Healing Center<\/a>. In the videos below, Glassman talks about Vodou, cleansing Joan River\u2019s house, and the upcoming benefit.<\/p>\n

Part one:<\/p>\n

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Part two:<\/p>\n

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For more on\u00a0Sallie Ann Glassman, check out the\u00a0Times Picayune\u2019s story from 2010<\/a> about how she rescued her mentor, Vodou priest\u00a0Edgard Jean Louis, after the\u00a0disastrous\u00a0Haitian earthquake. It\u2019s nice to see such uniformly\u00a0positive\u00a0coverage of Vodou practitioners in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Times Picayune interviews Sallie Ann Glassman, an initiated Vodou priestess who runs the Island of Salvation Botanica in New Orleans, and is author of\u00a0\u201cVodou Visions: An Encounter With Divine Mystery.\u201d\u00a0Glassman has been gaining increased media attention lately because of her relationship with comedian Joan Rivers, who is performing at a benefit for the\u00a0\u00a0New Orleans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[288,946,3516,1616,3515,2593],"class_list":["post-10151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paganism","category-religion","tag-botanica","tag-haiti","tag-joan-rivers","tag-new-orleans","tag-sallie-ann-glassman","tag-vodou"],"yoast_head":"\nInterview with a Vodou Priestess<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Times Picayune interviews 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