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voo⋅doo

  [voo-doo] noun, plural -doos, adjective, verb, -dooed, -doo⋅ing.
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–noun
1. Also, vodun. a polytheistic religion practiced chiefly by West Indians, deriving principally from African cult worship and containing elements borrowed from the Catholic religion.
2. a person who practices this religion.
3. a fetish or other object of voodoo worship.
4. a group of magical and ecstatic rites associated with voodoo.
5. (not in technical use) black magic; sorcery.
–adjective
6. of, pertaining to, associated with, or practicing voodoo.
7. Informal: Usually Disparaging. characterized by deceptively simple, almost magical, solutions or ideas: voodoo politics.
–verb (used with object)
8. to affect by voodoo sorcery.
Origin:
1810–20, Americanism; < LaF, earlier vandoux, vandoo < a West African source perh. akin to Ewe vodũ demon
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voo·doo   (vōō'dōō)   
n.   pl. voo·doos

  1. 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.

  2. A charm, fetish, spell, or curse holding magic power for adherents of voodoo.

  3. A practitioner, priest, or priestess of voodoo.

  4. 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.  

  1. Of or relating to the beliefs or practices of voodoo.

  2. Based on unrealistic or delusive assumptions: voodoo economics.


[Louisiana French voudou, from Ewe vodu and Fon vodun.]
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Cultural Dictionary

voodoo

A form of animism involving trances and other rituals. Communication with the dead is a principal feature of voodoo. It is most common in the nations of the Caribbean Sea, especially Haiti, where people sometimes mingle voodoo and Christian practices.

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Word Origin & History

voodoo 
religious witchcraft of Haiti and Southern U.S., ult. of African origin, 1850, from Louisiana Fr. voudou, from a W.African language (e.g. Ewe and Fon vodu "spirit, demon, deity," also Vandoo, supposedly the name of an African deity, from a language of Dahomey). Cf. vodun "fetish connected with snake worship in Dahomey," said to be from vo "to be afraid," or vo "harmful." The verb is attested from 1880.
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