Voodooism

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Voodooism \Voo"doo*ism\, n. [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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  voodooism
       n : a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries
           (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic
           deities [syn: {voodoo}, {vodoun}, {hoodooism}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "voodooism":
     alchemy, bewitchery, charm, divination, enchantment, fetishism,
     glamour, gramarye, hoodoo, juju, jujuism, magic, natural magic,
     necromancy, obeah, rune, shamanism, sorcery, sortilege, spell,
     spellbinding, spellcasting, sympathetic magic, thaumaturgia,
     thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theurgy, vampirism,
     voodoo, wanga, white magic, witchcraft, witchery, witchwork,
     wizardry