Bloodline of the Loa

Poppa Watú, the world's most powerful obeahman, descends from Jamaica's first practitioners of the tradition. Born in Boscobel, St. Mary Parish, to a fiery Scottish mother and Jamaican father, he is guided by the crossroads loa Poppa Legba, also known as Elegua, whose tattoo and veve mark his bond. His family's account says a Haitian man fleeing enslavement learned their spiritual practice, left with his own altered rendition, and began what became known as voodoo, fueling a bitter Haitian-Jamaican feud whose true cause has been forgotten.