Vaudoux

The practices called Vaudoux or Voudoux, are a sort of Obi; being, like that, an invoking of the aid of some god to do what the worshipers wish.

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages 1850

For instance, M.L. E. Moreau de Saint-Mery, in his two volume Description de la partie française de Saint-Domingue of 1797-98, described how during Vaudoux ceremonies slaves would explicitly ask for "the ability to manipulate the spirit of their masters."

Grave Dirt, Dried Toads, and the Blood of a Black Cat: How Aldridge Worked His Charms 2002

Catholicisme, Vaudoux, Maçonnerie (Paris, s. d.); Pouplard, Notice sur l'hist. de l'Eglise de Port-au-Prince (Port-au-Prince, 1905).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

His quotations are nearly all at second hand, and so little does he criticize his facts as to confuse the Vaudoux worship of the Haitian negroes with that of

The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

As for more imaginative writers, they have made not the least difficulty in discovering that it is identical with the Odon of the Tarascos, the Oton of the Othomis, the Poudan of the East Indian Tamuls, the Vaudoux of the

American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

But his final, signal, and characteristic victory, has been the recognition of Hayti -- a victory whereby Lincoln has become the oldest brother of Giffrard -- the Puritans have been wed to the Vaudoux -- and the New England form of Christianity leagued with Haytien fetichism.

Cause and contrast : an essay on the American crisis, T. W. MacMahon 1862

It is but a little while since in Hayti, under the energetic and sensible administration of President Geffrard, eight Vaudoux worshipers were regularly tried and executed for having murdered a young girl, the niece of two of them, by way of human sacrifice to the god.

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages 1850

The Vaudoux humbug is quite prevalent in Cuba, Hayti, and other West

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages 1850

In the West Indies, the Vaudoux orgies are more savage than in this country.

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages 1850

The Vaudoux worshipers assemble secretly, with a kind of chief witch or mistress of ceremonies; there is a boiling caldron of hell-broth, _a la_

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages 1850