Thursday, March 6, 2008

Voodoo: When threats, fists aren't enough

From the Palm Beach Post in West Palm Beach, Florida:

It's true love when you really know how to strike fear into your partner's heart. Take, for example, this Haitian couple's dispute, in which the husband accused his wife of infidelity. He punched her in the face and stomach to no avail. Then he chased her with a metal pole, but that one didn't work too well either. He even threatened to shoot her and their children. But what really got to the man's wife were threats of voodoo.

Nerlet Bellot's wife told police she is a "strong believer" in Voodoo and her husband is "more than capable" of casting a Voodoo curse, an arrest report said.

The woman, who is Haitian like her husband, said she was "terrified of that notion and it's consequences."

The woman, who recently moved from Haiti where her husband also has family, told police that threat scared her more than any of the others.


No word on whether either of the couple's children is a voodoo child (slight return).

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