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Voodoo   Listen
noun
Voodoo  n.  
1.
See Voodooism.
2.
One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.





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"Voodoo" Quotes from Famous Books



... apt to be sought. It will take several generations to work out this characteristic, and perhaps the greatest complaint the colored race has against those who formerly held them in subjection, is the way in which voodoo and supernatural stories were told ignorant slaves with a view to frightening them into obedience, and inciting ...
— My Native Land • James Cox
... to regain their freedom. But the magic word "independence" could not give stability to the new state any more than it had done in the case of its western foes. The Haitians had lapsed long since into a condition resembling that of their African forefathers. They reveled in the barbarities of Voodoo, a sort of snake worship, and they groveled before "presidents" and "emperors" who rose and fell on the tide of decaying civilization. The Dominicans unhappily were not much more progressive. Revolutions alternated ...
— The Hispanic Nations of the New World - Volume 50 in The Chronicles Of America Series • William R. Shepherd
... how, and they will do anything you want them to." Pulz chuckled in his throat. "You don't believe it?" drawled the assistant turning to him. "Well, it's so. You know that heavy box we are so careful of? Well, that's got a tame voodoo in it." ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams
... tragic play of the blood-hatred of negroes for those who have tortured and killed, and of voodoo rites and miracles; power is given the play by a most human reversal of ...
— The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays • Various
... believed in the voodoo craft, or in the power of an evil-eye, I should also have feared. Those who have ever witnessed a sea-island witch-dance can bear me out, and I think a man may dread a hag and be no coward either. But distance ...
— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers
... The voodoo sects in Haiti used hair or fingernail parings from the subject, Gloria knew; she had learned that in her college research, but she had known about the doll long before. Hair and fingernail parings: what superstition! And it wasn't as if you really needed ...
— Hex • Laurence Mark Janifer (AKA Larry M. Harris)


Words linked to "Voodoo" :   good luck charm, fetish, juju, vodoun, hoodooism, hex, glamour, jinx, charm, enchant, witch, zombie spirit, hoodoo, cultus, Republic of Haiti, fetich


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