My Life as a Voodoo Priestess
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Askia sits down with Voodoo Priestess and scholar Lilith Dorsey to break down the real history of Voodoo, its West African roots, and why Hollywood keeps getting it wrong. Lilith shares chilling personal stories including telepathic voices in the Pine Barrens, a ghost knocking a cheater's phone into a toilet, firewalking on 1300-degree coals, and the dark truth about fairies and changelings. Plus, practical tips on spiritual protection and why asking for the wrong thing might cost you everything.
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Lilith Dorsey is a Voodoo priestess, author, and practitioner. In this episode she dismantles every misconception Hollywood has built around Voodoo, explaining that it's a religious system rooted in Benin, West Africa, developed by and for the Black diaspora. She gets into the real mechanics of ancestral veneration, what initiation actually looks like, and how spells born from slavery and oppression were tools of justice. not evil.
She also goes full paranormal: a haunted Brooklyn basement, a spirit named Peter, zombie origin stories from Haiti, and real vampires walking the streets of New Orleans. Lilith's path isn't a hobby. It's a calling with a cost.
Topics covered: Voodoo vs. witchcraft, spirit attachments, ancestral veneration, initiation, possession, fairies and changelings, spiritual protection, Pine Barrens, zombies, vampires, Hollywood vs. reality, and more.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing Lilith Dorsey
01:29 - What is Voodoo?
03:21 - Lilith's first contact with spirits
08:38 - The Gift
11:37 - Using magick
16:59 - Voodoo initiation
20:08 - Lilith teaching Voodoo
24:05 - Voodoo is NOT evil
29:37 - Hollywood vs Voodoo
32:03 - Voodoo vs Hoodoo
34:48 - Voodoo as a religion
40:11 - Possessions in Voodoo
47:22 - What fairies actually look like
51:24 - How to protect yourself from negative spirits
55:37 - Dangers in the magick community
1:02:10 - Types of witches
1:03:22 - The haunted Pine Barrens
1:10:13 - Using bodies in Voodoo practices
1:14:40 - How to create a zombie
1:17:27 - Vampires in New Orleans
1:21:13 - Working with the dead
1:26:09 - Feminine energy
1:28:06 - The cost of magick
1:33:03 - What does the afterlife look like?
