sally ann in her element. there are other voodoo priestesses in new orleans, but she is one of the most popular, one of the most unlikely, a jewish girl from maine who says she knew as a child that there was something different about her. >> i started to put things together and realized that particularly adults were a little taken aback by me and, you know, they really seemed a little afraid of me. and then i started realizing i knew more about them than they were telling me. >> those outside the voodoo realm seem to have always been afraid of it. she thinks she knows why. >> i think when you ask questions about why is voodoo so vilified, the clearest answer i can give you is at voodoo recognizes an invisible world of great power and of spiritual power, and that the surface reality is really just the surface of things. there is a vaster more beautiful world going on inside throughout, above, beyond, within all of that. >> a majority of the voodoo practitioners are women and then are catholic according to marth