voodoo

(noun)

Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.

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Examples of voodoo in the following topics:

  • Slave Religion

    • As Christian missionaries and slave owners attempted to erase African religious and spiritual beliefs, Blassingame argues that "in the United States, many African religious rites were fused into one—voodoo. " Voodoo priests and conjurers promised slaves that they could make masters kind, harm enemies, ensure love and heal sickness.

  • Pollination by Insects

    • They are found on the corpse flower or voodoo lily (Amorphophallus), dragon arum (Dracunculus), and carrion flower (Stapleia, Rafflesia).

  • Fon

    • Together with other cultural groups from the Fon homeland region such as the Yoruba and Bantu, Fon culture merged with French, Portuguese or Spanish to produce distinct religions (Voodoo, Mami Wata, Candomblé and Santería), dance and musical styles (Arará, Yan Valu).

  • The Election of 1980

    • In the Republican primaries, Bush famously called Reagan's economic policy "voodoo economics" because it promised to lower taxes and increase revenues at the same time.

  • Free Enterprise Economics and Reaganomics

    • Bush, had referred to it as “voodoo economics” when competing with him for the Republican presidential nomination.