voodooism : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: voodooism	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for voodooism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
voodooism n a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities Synonym(s): voodoo, vodoun, voodooism, hoodooism
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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 Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.