Voodoo revealed: it's difficult to get a handle on voodoo, as its sensationalised dark side so frequently intervenes. Marianne Lehmann, a Swiss living in Haiti, sheds light on the subject through her collection of voodoo objects, now on display in Geneva.

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Voodoo revealed: it's difficult to get a handle on voodoo, as its sensationalised dark side so frequently intervenes. Marianne Lehmann, a Swiss living in Haiti, sheds light on the subject through her collection of voodoo objects, now on display in Geneva.

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It all began rather unexpectedly for Marianne Lehmann, a Swiss woman who has lived in Port-au-Prince for 50 years.

"About 20 or 25 years ago, a man came to my door carrying a sack from which he took a little man made of cement with three horns on his head and a pipe between his teeth, which he wanted to sell," she recalled.

"I was electrified. What was it? I was convinced that that strange little man was looking at me. I immediately felt that this...

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