Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
voodoo .
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Examples
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One such tower was erected on the site of the present drinking-fountain in Terazije and the square was named after it the Turks called their water towers terazije za vodu scales for water.
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Anthropologists have attempted both to highlight and to avoid this stereotype by using a number of terms including vodu, vodun, voudoun, and vodoun.
The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985
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M., The feasting of the gods in Haitian vodu, Primitive Man 19, nos.
The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985
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Vodou (from the Dahomean vodu, "spirit" or "deity") is a peaceable New World religion that marries elements of Catholicism with the rites and rituals of ancestral Africa.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Vodou (from the Dahomean vodu, "spirit" or "deity") is a peaceable New World religion that marries elements of Catholicism with the rites and rituals of ancestral Africa.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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