Practice with dolls

Usage examples of voodoo.

Do the words voodoo, live chickens, a love potion, and two dingbat females riding a Harley mean anything to you?

VooDoo got outside, Kyre helplessly watched him run across the street, cars skidding and swerving to avoid the raving lunatic wailing and running with his arms flailing.

Pruden considered the Materas, and he considered the voodoo ceremony, and he realized that knowing Madame Karitska was having its effect upon him: he really was curious.

You had all sorts of other voodoo theories back then--one of your fellow quacks told Mumsy and Evil that I was screwed up sexually.

One of the pigs was nibbling away industriously at one of their voodoo dolls, or whatever they were, and in the foreground was one of the little figures itself, washed clean of ifith and slop.

This place had filled her head with voodoo and jasmine in the dark and with the essence of an octaroon girl who was transformed, by the act of her mother, into the undead and who was torn, by her love for a human, between two irreconcilable worlds.

Through the vaporous bayou mists, Selene saw a black man and woman, presumably the voodoo priest, Papaloi, and the queen, Mamoloi.

In the earlier days of Voodoo, some rituals were transferred from the Congo Plains to a deserted brickyard on Dumaine Street in the Vieux Carre.

What we today call Voodoo and think of as mere superstition was actually an animist religion called Vodu or Voudou, originating in West Africa with the Yoruba tribe and on the Caribbean island Saint Domingue.

Practically everyone on this island believes in the voodoo religion, and Masson is considered a powerful high priest.

They looked like Mutt and Jeff: Prez was almost a foot taller, although they weighed about the 60 THE CALIFORNIA VOODOO GAME same.

For the past six years, Eames had worked on cases involving voodoo, santeria, and Satanic worship, all of which used blood from a variety of sources in their rituals.

The Virgin Mary was there in the form of Our Lady of Carmel, standing in for Ezilie, a goddess of Voodoo, with heaps of flowers at her feet and perhaps the most candles before her, all of them aflicker in their deep glasses as a breeze stirred the room.

William Sargant, an eminent English neuropsychiatrist, has pointed out the similarity of the techniques used in brainwashing with the results obtained by Methodist and Fundamentalist revivalism in the past and present, by snake-handling cults in the southern United States, by voodoo ceremonies in Haiti, and by ecstatic religious rituals celebrated all over the world.

The voodoo snakes at the cabin were nonpoisonous, thank you very much.