There are a million reasons why vital aid has not reached some survivors in Haiti.

But Max Beauvoir may have found one more.

Beauvoir is Haiti’s supreme master of voodoo, and he says he and his followers are last in line to be helped because of their unusual beliefs.

Haiti, strongly religious, is home to the strongest believers in voodoo, which combines traditional African beliefs with Christianity.

“The evangelists are in control and they take everything for themselves,” Beauvoir told the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper, describing what life has been like since the Jan. 12 earthquake.

“Everyone is suffering the same and has the same needs. We are not asking for anything more than anyone else.

“We’re just asking for it to be fair.”

In many ways, Beauvoir defies expectations of what a voodoo master should be like. At 75-years-old, he is an educated biochemist living just outside Port-au-Prince.

Aid from the World Food Program has only reached he and his followers in the past few days, he’s complained.

Last weekend, scores of Voodoo priests gathered in Haiti to discuss how they would handle the crisis. They had little time to talk about comments by US television evangelist Pat Robertson, who told his audience that the people of Haiti had, long ago, made a “pact with the devil”.

“Voodoo has been discriminated against for 200 years,” Beauvoir told the paper.

“To ask us to stop would be like asking Americans to stop (eating) hamburgers.”

As far as helping people to understand Voodoo rites and practices, the leader said Hollywood has never gotten it right.