Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈvuːduː/ · noun
Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana..
You cannot understand Haitian Vodou as it is practised today without first knowing something about the culture from which it sprang, and the ways history has shaped religion, and vice versa.
I want a real explanation, not this statistical voodoo.
So a reporter of the Boston Herald (U.S.) has 'interviewed' a few local Voodoos. He has seen a dance round a boiling pot, seen some tomfoolery with spiders, and heard a lot of superstitious stories.
He claimed his neighbor had voodooed him.
Use voodoo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Voodoo means Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana..
Common synonyms include voodooism, fetish, hoodoo, juju.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
You cannot understand Haitian Vodou as it is practised today without first knowing something about the culture from which it sprang, and the ways history has shaped religion, and vice versa.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.