Next time you have trouble sneaking that extra bottle of rum past customs, pity poor Myrlene Severe, a Haitian woman who was charged in Florida last week with smuggling a human head.  The customs people werent too impressed with her argument that she needed it to ward off evil spirits.  Heres her story:  Speaking of heads, if you can come up with a clever headline for Myrlenes story, drop it to us via Post a Comment.

My favorite odd voodoo-related item was about a musical greeting card that played “Silent Night” from the depths of a Jamaican latrine, prompting a voodoo scare that led to a cache of missing mail. The musical card was among hundreds of letters  dumped into a post office latrine, found when a man using the facility heard the tune and believed he was the victim of a voodoo curse.

Voodoo devotees prepare a place for a voodoo ceremony in the neighbourhood of Bel-Air in Port-au-Prince, Haiti November 2, 2005.  REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz