voodoo
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7.9
- noun
- /ˈvuːduː/
:
vudú
- Many people believe that voodoo can create a connection with spirits that guide their lives.
And we still like the voodoo priest thing, but he's a voodoo priest who graduated from Oxford.
- And we still like the voodoo priest thing, but he's a voodoo priest who graduated from Oxford.
- Electricity by the majority of the general public was viewed as a voodoo spirit.
- And I don't know, like a, like some voodoo Mystic tells you that it's raining outside.
- And that's probably in West Africa studying voodoo.
- They would wear these things because they the the voodoo magician would bless that article that they're wearing and it would make them bulletproof.
- The statuette idol fetish, or whatever it was, had been captured some months earlier in the wooded swamp South of New Orleans during a raid on a supposed voodoo meeting.
- We're not talking about some strange voodoo or a hex or something or some TikTok.
Examples
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I think I need to visit a few more voodoo shops to find out.
Blog text (19) -
You may not know it, but you are deep in voodoo country.
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And trust me, voodoo is real.
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Now I have to start my voodoo ritual all over again!
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All the churches down here full of jungle buddies doing voodoo.
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This is the aesthetic of voodoo, the black Atlantic aesthetic of layering.
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A Haitian painting depicting a voodoo ceremony hangs in the dining room.
Fiction book (2000) -
Specifically, an African/French religious hybrid emerged through Voodoo, whose dance rituals rapidly spread among the free and enslaved black populations.
Academic text (2012) -
Set in Haiti, the film's protagonist must rescue his fiancee from an evil voodoo master who runs a sugar mill using zombie labor.
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In certain traditional cultures, everyone "knows" that shamans are able to induce voodoo death (aka psychophysiological death).
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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A religion from West Africa, practiced in Haiti, that involves belief in spirits and ancestors
A religion from the Caribbean, especially Haiti, that mixes West African beliefs, Catholic ideas, spirits, and magic
Religious beliefs and folk magic from African and Caribbean traditions often practiced in Haiti and the southern United States
Compounds
- Literature
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An idea critics use for unrealistic money and growth plans that lack proof
Surface Forms
Etymology
Voodoo comes from a West African word vodu meaning 'spirit' and from Haitian Vodou, the name of the religion that honours those spirits. So voodoo today usually means that religion and its rituals about spirits and magic.