The great city of New Orleans, Louisiana is perhaps best known for its French Quarter, jazz music, and Creole cuisine. But it is also (somewhat more privately) known for Louisiana Voodoo, a unique religion that blends West African religious traditions, Roman Catholicism, and Haitian Vodou. When two waves of ax murders swept through Louisiana and Texas between 1911 and 1919, only one person was punished: a teenage Black girl reported to be a Voodoo priestess. The newspapers had a field day sensationalizing the monstrosities of Voodoo. Today we’re going to point our skeptical eye at that contemporary conclusion that Voodoo was the explanation, and see if young Clementine Barnabet – and Voodoo as well – deserve to be exonerated.