Words Like VOODOO
We have put together a list of words that are similar to VOODOO.
14 Alternative Words Similar to voodoo
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Vodoun
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Voodooism
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Hoodooism
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10 definitions of voodoo
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A common name among creoles and in many of the southern United States for any practicer of malicious, defensive, amatory, healing, or soothsaying enchantments, charms, witchcrafts, or secret rites, especially when they are tinctured with African superstitions and customs; especially, one who makes such practices a business.
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The same title transferred by voodoos to a personal evil spirit supreme among evil powers.
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plural The practicers of voodoo rites as a collective body.
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Pertaining to or associated with the superstitions and peculiar practices of the voodoos: as, a voodoo dance (a violent indecent dance belonging to the secret nocturnal ceremonies of the voodoos); a voodoo doctor, or voodoo priest (the terms most commonly used in creole countries for any professional voodoo); voodoo king or queen (the person who, by a certain vague election and tenure, holds for life a local preëminence and some slight, authority over all voodoos of the surrounding country).
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To affect by voodoo conjuration or charms.
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A religion of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin.
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Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.
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Any sort of magical or irrational approach to a problem.
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To enchant someone or something using voodoo
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a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers