Source Critique Three

“Black Magic, New Orleans Style” is an article written by Alison Brouillette. The article comes from part of an online version of a book called Loyola University Student Historical Journal Volume 16. The book was published in the Spring-Fall of 1985 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In “Black Magic, New Orleans Style,” Brouillette talks about voodoo in New Orleans. She explains that voodoo is the practice of worshipping the devil by many Africans. Brouillette also talks about how voodoo was learned by the white people in Louisiana when they brought slaves over to the United States. Hoodoo is known come from the corruption of the Voodoo religion. She provides many stories about people who have tried to use voodoo on other people. One story was about a Guinean slave named Carlos who tried to kill his German plantation owner. Carlos tried to use the “gris-gris" effect to kill his owner; gris-gris meaning the placement of an evil spell upon someone through charms and incantations. She also goes on explaining other stories about voodoo.
This source is a reliable one because it comes from a book. The book was published by a university in Louisiana. A book that was published by a university isn’t going to be fibbed, because the people who wrote it know what they were talking about. It also means that whoever wrote in that book has some sort of education. Furthermore, that would provide evidence that this is a reliable source.
This source will be every useful to me because it provides a lot of information on voodoo. It tells where it came from and how it got to the United States. It also tells who practices, why it’s practiced, and where it’s practiced. This source also gives personal stories about people who have done voodoo in certain circumstances. Therefore, it will be able to answer many of my research questions on voodoo.