Voodooism

[ voo-doo-iz-uhm ]

noun

1. the Voodoo religious rites and folk magic practices.
2. the practice of magical and ecstatic rites associated with Voodoo.

Other Words From

• Voo·doo·ist noun
• Voo·doo·is·tic [voo-doo-, is, -tik], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Voodooism¹

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65; Voodoo + -ism

Example Sentences

Religion to the progressives became a Christian experience rather than the wild notions of revelation, which among some of the uninformed too often bordered on superstition and voodooism of the middle age, after the restraint of slavery had been removed and the Negroes as groups exercising religious freedom could indulge their fancy at will.

From Project Gutenberg

Ma�t' Raoul knew more about voodooism and black magic than any white man ever should.

From Project Gutenberg

That race intermixture may, however, determine degeneration, is shown by the relapse into voodooism and cannibalism of the Haiti and Louisiana French hybrids, and the Anglo-Saxon hybrids of Liberia, who contrast disadvantageously with the Arabianised Moslem Mandingoes and Veys, which last have advanced so far as to devise a system of writing.

From Project Gutenberg

British Author Derek Marlowe, best known for A Dandy in Aspic, pits Lytton's prim England against sensual Haiti, Catholicism against voodooism, the terrors of a feverish imagination against the banality of a tourist's experience.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why are all the blacks either stupid brutes or primitives deep into the occult and voodooism?

From Time Magazine Archive

Related Words

• black magic
• occult
• voodoo