what is the difference in practicing Voodoo and Witchcraft?

Answer 1

Small world. What are you doing here?

Answer 2

I belive VooDoo is a indian religion, but there are Voodoo dolls, which I think are commonly used for torturing someone (or from what I know). And Witchcraft is well, kind of hard to describe. I guess, some of the more common things with Witchcraft are rituals, or things like that. So Voodoo is more of a religion. Unless, of course when your talking about Witchcraft your talking more sepcifacally about Wicca. Which is also a religioin. Now I'm confusing myself...

Answer 3

Simply put, VooDoo in the USA is a combination of African beliefs and Catholicism, you will find Christian religious symbols in abundance. Witchcraft is a religion based on nature. VooDoo priestesses may call on a number of spirits, including demons and even the devil. Witches may call on earth spirits but we do not believe in the devil, but some may call some of the negative forces demons. Personally I don't call any of the spirits demons or angels. Just good and bad, and I do not have anything to do with the bad ones.

Answer 4

Voodoo is a type of witchcraft that has a specific set of rituals. There are many types of witchcraft, some involving religion and some not.

Answer 5

Voodoo (Vodou, Vodoun, Vudu, or Vudun in Benin, Togo, southeastern Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Senegal; also Vodou in Haiti) is a name attributed to a traditionally unwritten West African spiritual system of faith and ritual practices. Like all faith systems, the core functions of Voodoo are to explain the forces of the universe, influence those forces, and influence human behavior. Oral tradition creates continuity of the faith stories including genealogy, history and fables. Deities are honored along with the veneration of ancient and recent ancestors. This faith system is widespread across groups in West Africa. Diaspora spread Voodoo to North and South America and the Caribbean.


Witchcraft, in various historical, anthropological, religious and mythological contexts, is the use of certain kinds of alleged supernatural or magical powers. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft, and may be male or female. While mythological witches are often supernatural creatures, historically many people were also accused of witchcraft, or claimed to be witches. Witchcraft still exists in a number of belief systems, with many modern practitioners.

The term "witchcraft" can have positive or negative connotations depending on cultural context; for instance, in post-Christian European cultures it has historically been associated with evil and the Devil, while most contemporary people who self-identify as witches see it as beneficent and morally positive.

In both historical and mythological contexts, witches are most often female, the male equivalent being a wizard, sorcerer, warlock or magician.


Wicca is a Neopagan religion and a religious movement found in various countries throughout the world. It was first popularised in 1954 by a British civil servant named Gerald Gardner[1] after the British Witchcraft Act was repealed. He claimed that the religion, of which he was an initiate, was a modern survival of an old witchcraft religion, which had existed in secret for hundreds of years, originating in the pre-Christian Paganism of Europe. Wicca is thus sometimes referred to as the Old Religion. The veracity of Gardner's claims cannot be independently proven, and it is thought that written Wiccan theology began to be compiled no earlier than the 1920s.[2] Various related Wiccan traditions have since evolved or been adapted from the form established by Gardner, which came to be called Gardnerian Wicca. These other traditions of Wicca each have distinctive beliefs, rituals, and practices. Many traditions of Wicca remain secretive and require that members be initiated. There is also a movement of Eclectic or Solitary Wiccans who do not believe that any doctrine or traditional initiation is necessary in order to practice Wicca. The 2001 American Religious Identification Survey estimated that at least 134,000 adults identified themselves as Wiccans in the US.

Answer 6

I believe Voodoo was created in Haiti and The dominican republic...that area of the world...Voodoo is actually a form of Christianity that has spells integrated within it.

Witchcraft on the other hand goes back to the times of Solomon son of David.
It is said that the angels would help solomon and give him advice but only at their bidding when they felt like it.
Solomon...not wanting to wait...devised a way to create spells and call upon demons and such to get what he wanted when he wanted.
It is believed this is the origin of Witchcraft.

Answer 7

Voodoo is a religion rooted in African Paganism. Witchcraft is an act that is part of many religions like Wicca. I don't know any Voodoo Mambos. Priestesses, Priests etc who call their prayers and rituals Witchcraft. Simply put, Witchcraft is another word for prayer.

Answer 8

Voodoo is a African-based religion, Witchcraft comes from the imagination of Christians

Answer 9

Voudon is a religion in which they practice a specific type of witchcraft...what some call "voodoo".

Witchcraft itself is the practice of what some could call folk magic (or magick if they are into the ceremonial aspect of it).

Answer 10

Vodun (sometimes called Vodou ) is a West African ancestral religion. They have specific deities that they honor called Loas. And contrary to popular belief the focus of the Vodun religion is not cursing people by sticking pins into images of them (in the form of Vodun dolls) or by turning them into zombies. That image has been created for Hollywood movies, complete with violence, bizarre rituals, etc. It does not exist in reality.

Witchcraft is a practice that can be done in the context of any religion. Practices and beliefs that have been termed "witchcraft" do not constitute a single identifiable religion, since they are found in a wide variety of cultures, both present and historical; however these beliefs do generally involve religious elements dealing with spirits or deities, the afterlife, magic and ritual.