Voodoo
Also Vodou, Vodoun or Vodun. A religious system with followers predominantly in Haiti in the West Indies, and in other countries to which Haitians have immigrated.
Vodoun (also Voodoo)
The religion of Vodoun as currently practiced bears little resemblance to its ancestral practice. Presently there are an estimated 50 million worshippers worldwide.
2. Voodoo and other magical systems that use hypnotism to access the Doppleganger's world.
of vicious corporations, violent mercenaries, and social dystopia, the allegorical realm within the text nonetheless becomes a locus of demonic entity, as the sentient godhead that emerges at the end of Neuromancer fragments into Count Zero's voodoo ...
In terms of Voodoo, this idea is implicit in the Petro rites with their emphasis upon the spaces between the cardinal points of the compass: the off-beat rhythms of the drums that summon the loa from beyond the Veil and formulate the laws of their ...
Voodooism is a word applied to the practices of guileful men among the ignorant and superstitious who inflict impostures upon guileless men among the ignorant and superstitious. No Court would grant a franchise in furtherance of such practices.
Zombies : are a very real phenomenon typically associated with the voodoo practicing, West Indian country of Haiti on the island of Hispaniola.
[42] Among its lower ranks come members of the negro race who practise the ghastly rites of the Obeah or Voodoo schools, and the medicine-men of many a savage tribe; while higher in intellect, and therefore the more blameworthy, ...
Different names include Candomble, Macumba, Santeria, Hoodoo, Voodoo and many others. (3) In the United States and Canada, systems of thaumaturgic magic and religion practiced by people who are usually poor, uneducated and nonwhite.
In various Caribbean traditions (such as Santeria and Voodoo), chickens are sacrificed to encourage the satisfaction of the spirits invoked during ritual.
 See also: Magic, World, Spirit, Ritual, Occult
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