What is voodoo?

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What is voodoo?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Google definition(s):

-Magical practice considered to be a form of black magic but also is considered a religion to some.

-Mysterious religion involving charms and spells that came to Louisiana via the Caribbean.

-A religious system based mainly on beliefs and practices brought from Africa into the Western world, although now incorporating other components and having further developed through time and circumstance. The name "Voodoo" comes from the Fon word for the system, practiced in Dahomey for example, of worshipping, and seeking assistance and oracles from divine power, as this was channeled through the visible presence of a specific kind of living creature.

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Wikipedia description:

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. [...**]

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Answer 3

A practice that stems from catholicism. Apparently in N.O the mulatto's and blacks got tired of the whites wronging them so they made up their own practices for protection (that was what someone told me who was from N.O). Overtime it became modified and people used dolls.

I know for a fact that people in Haiti also believe in this practice. It is a french thing.

There are certain stipulations to this practice. First off, from what I understood, you cannot use voodoo to purposely wrong someone. It is only used to reverse actions. My grandmother's mother, who was from Haiti had a special book called (ti tablet- pronounced "tea-tablay"). Would you like to borrow it?

but I would have to charge....

Answer 4

voodoo is a religion dealing with allot of myths and beliefs not about magic like most would lead you to think

Answer 5

An asinine Afro-centric superstition

Answer 6

Superstiton, usually from a Caribbean island or New Orleans. It's the belief that you can make the dead walk, or things like that.

Answer 7

hold on now, I get my straight pins and i'll practice on "YOU - WHO!" (***pointing at you****)

1 - for love
2 - for compassion
3 - faith
4 - hope
5 - conversion
6 - baptism
7 - charity

P.S. Have you gotten over your bad back yet? (Robaxacet commercial comes to mind...)

Answer 8

voodoo dolls.... or love?

Answer 9

its a donkey, on a stick
'and a baseball bat
and magic
and a doll

Answer 10

its a short term for devil worship