The "Really" File - (White Magic?)

 When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you....who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things are an abomination detestable to the LORD…
   Deuteronomy 18:9-12

“We don’t do black magic,” says Haitian Vodou healer Manbo Katy. “We do white magic. That is cleaner and holier.”
 Katy is the subject of a new short documentary by

Benin (in west Africa) was the cradle of Vodoo

Broadly, directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker. In the years since the 2010 Haiti earthquake, which displaced more than a million people, the priestess has worked to bring both spiritual and physical healing to her community, while carrying on the centuries-old tradition of Vodou worship.
In the film, Katy describes her vocation as a Vodou manbo, or priestess, while taking viewers through the practices and beliefs of the often-misunderstood religion.
Vodou was developed by African ethnic groups that were enslaved and brought to colonial Haiti, formerly Saint-Domingue, by Roman 

From the "Really" File

Catholic missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries. Vodou means “spirit” or “deity” in the Fon language of what is now Benin.
A fundamental principle of Vodou is that humans live side by side with lwa, or spirits, as well as mystè (mysteries), anvizib (the invisibles), zanj (angels), and ancestor spirits. During ceremonies, Vodou priests and priestesses honor and commune with the spirits by chanting, dancing, offering prayers and performing certain rites.
As the Broadly documentary depicts, spirit possession also plays an important role in Vodou rituals, during which the Iwa are believed to actually enter the healers’ bodies. 
“When the spirit enters me, it enters with a force. When the force is done entering, my normal spirit, Katy’s spirit, has left me,” Katy says.
In the film, Katy and her fellow healers prepare for and conduct a celebration of the dead." HP

"White MAGIC"?

REALLY?