voodoo 的 3 个定义
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.
- (5)
- 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.
Voo·dooed, Voo·doo·ing.
- to affect by Voodoo magic.
voodoo 近义词
black magic
更多voodoo例句
- 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.