Voodoo: Truth and Fantasy

Voodoo: Truth and Fantasy

First French edition. The cover featuring the painting Loa by Haitian artist Denis Smith.
Author	Laënnec Hurbon
Original title	Les Mystères du vaudou
Translator	Lory Frankel
Cover artist	Denis Smith [ht] (FR & US eds.) Edouard Duval-Carrié (UK ed.)
Language	French
Series	Découvertes Gallimard●Religions (FR) New Horizons (UK) Abrams Discoveries (US)
Release number	190th in collection
Subject	Haitian Vodou
Genre	Nonfiction monograph
Publisher	Éditions Gallimard (FR) Thames & Hudson (UK) Harry N. Abrams (US)
Publication date	4 November 1993
Publication place	France
Published in English	1995
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	176 pp
ISBN	978-2-0705-3186-8 (first edition)
OCLC	718685754
Preceded by	Premiers chrétiens, premiers martyrs
Followed by	Il était une fois la Mésopotamie

Voodoo: Truth and Fantasy (US title: Voodoo: Search for the Spirit; French: Les Mystères du vaudou, lit. 'The Mysteries of Vodou') is a 1993 illustrated monograph on Haitian Vodou. Written by the Haitian sociologist of religion Laënnec Hurbon, and published in pocket format by Éditions Gallimard as the 190th volume in their 'Découvertes' collection^[1] (known as 'New Horizons' in the United Kingdom, and 'Abrams Discoveries' in the United States).