voodooed
巫毒,巫术,巫毒的,巫毒症
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plural Voo·doos.
- : Sometimes Vo·doun . a fusion of Afro-Caribbean Vodou and folk magic practiced chiefly in Louisiana, deriving ultimately from West African Vodun and containing elements borrowed from the Roman Catholic religion.Compare Hoodoo, Santería, Vodun, Vodou.
- : a person who practices this religion.
- : a fetish or other object of Voodoo worship.
- : a group of magical and ecstatic rites associated with Voodoo.
- : voodoo. Sometimes Offensive. black magic; sorcery.
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- : of, pertaining to, associated with, or practicing Voodoo.
- : voodoo. Informal: Sometimes Offensive. characterized by deceptively simple, almost as if magical, solutions or ideas: voodoo economics.
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Voo·dooed, Voo·doo·ing.
- : to affect by Voodoo magic.
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This photograph references Voodoo and is homage to African slaves.
Voodoo is the official religion of Haiti and was brought into the West Indies nation by African slaves.
In Voodoo, the demarcation between life and death is more fluid; helping Voodoo followers create order out of disorder.
In the background, outside, is Papa Legba, who is a Loa, the word for a Voodoo deity.
There are whispers of a history of voodoo ceremonies and mysterious orbs of light appearing in photos.
He had a schooner named the Voodoo, a coast cruiser that never went further to sea than the Windwards.
All voodoo and aristocratic young hero and beautiful maiden pursued by an officer of the black rebels.
The old Voodoo priests were passing away and already here and there new spiritual leaders of the Negroes began to arise.
But we of the Pearl were very careful not to repeat to Cambon anything of Amos's mention of the voodoo.
Pledging her to secrecy I then told her Rufe's story of Amos, though carefully omitting any mention of the voodoo.