In 1890, the already famous French “decadent” writer Joris-Karl Huysmans wrote to a friend that he was looking for “a demoniac sodomite priest” who performed the black mass. He needed him for a new book, now known as “Là-bas” or “Down There”.

Close by Windmill woods on Alderley Edge, Cheshire, U.K. there is a strange place known as “The Black Crossroads”.

The article is about the history of voodoo and how it began, and why peopple still do it today.

There’s a dirty little secret no one likes to discuss in Israel: racism and discrimination. On the whole, you can hear talk of discrimination against Jews, but not discrimination by the European Jews against Russian or Ethiopian Jews. Yesterday Haaretz ran a story about how the courts ordered a white man to pay a black mizrahim woman 18,000 Euros for his outrageous discriminatory behavior.