Crossword clues for voodooism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) A religious cult, from Haiti, involving witchcraft and sorcery. 2 (context countable English) Any voodoo practice.
WordNet
Usage examples of "voodooism".
When he was a medical doctor in 1944, plotting his rise to power, he made a study of voodooism because he knew it would make him popular among the superstitious, illiterate peasants.
Now that I have known Haiti, with its voodooism, with its curses and charms and zombies and good and bad spirits which can inhabit anybody or anything, and so on, I wonder if it mattered much that it was I who was in the cage in the basement of the old courthouse so long ago.
Some dreadful act of voodooism such as negroes practise in Haiti and on the West Coast?
I made an extensive study of voodooism in the southern United States, Haiti and Africa.
He knew that there were incidents of control after death in the voodooism of the Haitians that had merely been denied, not explained.
Most were seamen, and a sprinkling of Negroes and mulattoes, largely West Indians or Brava Portuguese from the Cape Verde Islands, gave a colouring of voodooism to the heterogeneous cult.
Behind the froth of voodooism rose the grim religions of Africa, like granite cliffs glimpsed through a mask of green fronds.