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voodoo
/ˈvudu/
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What does voodoo mean?
noun
- Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.
- The spiritual beliefs of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin and in the south of Togo.
verb
- To bewitch someone or something using voodoo
More meanings (2)
noun
- (derogatory) Any sort of magical or irrational approach to a problem.
- (dated) One who practices voodoo; a native sorcerer.
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V. practice sorcery &c.n.; cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate &c.
I was bound hand and foot, while the cannibals, armed with spears, danced around me in a heathen ceremony, chanting a voodoo chant and reciting a rigmarole by which cannibals are supposed to make their human feast on a sacred rite.