Charlie Baugh, a young, recognized anthropologist, is deeply involved in his research project on “Voodoo in the American South,” as well as an intense affair with a brilliant graduate student, Cashy (Cashiella) Epstein. His apprenticeship with the "power doctor," Jim Smith (who has put him in contact with the Voodoo hounghan or shaman, Pelham) leads both deep into a another world.
