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    Top 7 (Real) VooDoo Gone Wrong Stories

    What's better for the day after Mardi Gras than an ode to one of Louisiana's primary dangers: real voodoo curses. Voodoo actually kills people in the U.S. and around the world. Sure, it kills mostly because people perform life-threatening rituals and because they're so afraid of curses that they're willing to kill before any effects take place, but still, voodoo kills. So, here are the worst times that real voodoo has ever gone wrong and actually caused some (often unintentional) death in some way, shape or form.