religious witchcraft of Haiti and Southern U.S., ultimately of African origin, 1850, from Louisiana French voudou, from a West African language (such as Ewe and Fon vodu "spirit, demon, deity,&qu [..]

noun. a synthetist religion, practiced primarily in the Caribbean, wherein west African customs of magic and ancestor praise are mixed with rites stem partly from Roman Catholicism. These commonly are [..]

yes">  A hybrid religious-folkloric system widely practiced in Haiti, combining elements of Roman Catholicism (introduced by French colonialists) and African mysticism (introduced by slave pop [..]

Voodoo is a religion involving ancestor worship, animal sacrifice, and belief in communication with deities by trance. Voodoo originated in Haiti by combining Catholicism with the belief in African go [..]

(n) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers(v) bewitch by or as if by a voodoo(n) (Haiti) followers of a religion that involves witchcraft and animistic deities(n) a religious cult p [..]

mysterious religion involving charms and spells that came to Louisiana via the Caribbean.

A form of witchcraft.

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The religion of the vast majority of the Haitian people. Closely related to Dahoman and other West African practices, combined with elements of Roman Catholicism and possibly Amerindian religions. Spi [..]

A religion of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin and in the south of Togo. Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly [..]