Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

Zora Neale Hurston

Harper Collins, Oct 13, 2009 - Travel - 336 pages

“Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information.”

—New York Times Book Review

Based on Zora Neale Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of the ceremonies, customs, and superstitions of voodoo.

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User Review  - Ghost_Boy - LibraryThing

This is the type of book you'd probably never see me read if it was written by an author I didn't know. I love Zora Neale Hurston. This isn't her best book, but it's one that caught my interest. The ...

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User Review  - Eye_Gee - LibraryThing

I've been interested in Voudoon culture since reading "The Serpent & The Rainbow". Here is another book told by someone from outside, but wholly accepting, of the religion. Hurston spent a lot of time ...

About the author

Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. She wrote four novels (Jonah’s Gourd Vine, 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937; Moses, Man of the Mountain, 1939; and Seraph on the Suwanee, 1948); two books of folklore (Mules and Men, 1935, and Tell My Horse, 1938); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942); an international bestselling nonfiction work (Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” 2018); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She attended Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University and was a graduate of Barnard College in 1928. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
• Author: Zora Neale Hurston
• Publisher: Harper Collins, 2009
• ISBN: 0061847399, 9780061847394
• Length: 336 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / American / African American & Black; Literary Collections / Essays; Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors); Social Science / Customs & Traditions; Travel / Caribbean & West Indies