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Webster 1913 Edition


Voodooism

Voo′doo-ism

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Noun.
[Probably (through Creole French
vaudoux
a negro sorcerer) fr. F.
Vaudois
Waldensian, because the Waldenses were accused of sorcery.]
A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Haiti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.

Definition 2024


voodooism

voodooism

English

Noun

voodooism (countable and uncountable, plural voodooisms)

  1. (uncountable) A religious cult, from Haiti, involving witchcraft and sorcery.
  2. (countable) Any voodoo practice.

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