A religion practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries, especially Haiti, syncretized from Roman Catholic ritual elements and the animism and magic of slaves from West Africa, in which a supreme God rules a large pantheon of local and tutelary deities, deified ancestors, and saints, who communicate with believers in dreams, trances, and ritual possessions. Also called vodoun.
A charm, fetish, spell, or curse holding magic power for adherents of voodoo.
A practitioner, priest, or priestess of voodoo.
Deceptive or delusive nonsense.
tr.v.
voo·dooed, voo·doo·ing, voo·doos To place under the influence of a spell or curse; bewitch. adj.
Of or relating to the beliefs or practices of voodoo.
Based on unrealistic or delusive assumptions: voodoo economics.
[Louisiana French voudou, from Ewe vodu and Fon vodun.]
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