Myths are fascinating stories that have been told and shared over generations through various ways, such as through family members, churches, schools, movies, media and many more. Those who listen to the stories have learned to accept such stories as truth. What listeners fail to realize is that stories being told over and over again by various entities are actually called myths. The book, The Everything Classical Mythology Book, by Nancy Conner, states that “Myths usually refers to a fictitious story or half-truth… that are not the creation of a single author” (2). Stories being told by many have had the opportunity to add their own version to it and be re-told again and again. My argument is the fact that all myths concerning Voodoo are…show more content… According to Hurbon, Laënnec the author of the book named Voodoo search for the sprit, voodoo which is also known as Vodum in Benin “Means an invisible force, terrible and mysterious which can meddle in human affairs at any time”(13). Laënnec confirms that due to the “displacement of millions of black slaves to the New World led to the rebirth of Africans beliefs and practice in the Americans, under the various forms and names: cadomblé in Brazil, Santería in Cuba, obeayisne in Jamaica, shongo cult in Trinidad, and Vodou in Haiti”…show more content… Due to Africans living in an unfamiliar land, Laënnec, the author of Voodoo search for the sprit shed lights on how “Africans slowly evolved … to serve as a secret foundation for their various struggles for freedom” (33). Meaning, Africans had practiced Voodoo to help suppress their emotional, physical and mental abuse during the oppression and struggles that they had endure during the slavery times. Again the fact that Africans look to practiced Voodoo as a form of comfort goes to show that the fixation of society viewing Voodoo as a religion that served, chanted and practices evil works are wrong. This indicates that Voodoo myths has been so commercialized that the negative aspect of voodoo has been accepted as norm, without learning the origin and reason behind