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2Papa Legba. Luce knows the name. Seven years ago, in her second year at Glasgow Uni, she'd found it in a book on American folklore while researching an assignment she had to hand in for an elective anthropology course she'd taken. She'd been writing an essay on Haitian Voudou, which she remembers had annoyed her hardcore catholic mother no end, a reaction Luce had fully intended at the time. Witchcraft she'd called it, and hadn't appreciated her daughter's retort about the Vatican's three-hundred-year witch extermination campaign and the tens of thousands of innocents who'd been flayed, racked, whipped, beheaded, burned and dismembered in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost, often for nothing more than being born with a birthmark. The spirit Legba originally came from Hait

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