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Vodun

[ voh-duhn ]

noun

  1. a polytheistic religion practiced chiefly in coastal West Africa, the practice of which includes worship of spirits tied to the natural world or embodied in fetish objects of worship, and a belief that ancestral spirits share the physical world along with the living.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Vodun1

First recorded in 1935–40; from Haitian Creole Voodoo

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