What's the difference between sorcerer and voodoo?

Sorcerer


Definition:

  • (n.) A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
  • (2) Then, zipping his cagoule purposefully, this sonic sorcerer and eccentric sweetheart issues a parting shot.
  • (3) 'They are warriors, sorcerers and magicians,' she says.
  • (4) The story begins in 16th-century China, where an evil sorcerer, The Son Of Hell, seeks to take over the world.
  • (5) You’ll often hear a director or production designer complaining that a particular neighbourhood “does not look enough like itself”, and making various cosmetic changes – a nondescript wall in the East Village might be gussied up with flyers for punk shows, for example, or a Chinatown byway given additional Chinese signage and decoration, as was done on Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
  • (6) Donald Trump remains in the Oval Office, making decisions about whom to explode next (in the interview he calls this responsibility “the bigness of it all”), not gathering dust on a sorcerer’s shelf.
  • (7) For infertility, witches and spirits can be responsible but suspicion focuses mostly on the evil-doing of another individual, corresponding to the classical description of a sorcerer, and the "witch" or sorcerer is generally a very close relative, possibly even the husband, and sometimes the woman herself, especially when the ritual fails.
  • (8) The 90s saw a move into big-budget action – Armageddon, The Rock, Con Air – while today, thanks to a Disney deal, he's responsible for more family-oriented juggernauts: The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Prince Of Persia weren't enormous successes; the four Pirates Of The Caribbean films were.
  • (9) As well as playing Smaug, Cumberbatch is voicing the Necromancer, the evil Mirkwood sorcerer who is revealed in the Lord of the Rings to be the evil spirit Sauron.
  • (10) Iger could end up playing the role of the Sorcerer's Apprentice, serving under the tutelage of Jobs, the 21st-century conjuror who transforms every industry he touches.
  • (11) Under the influence of the Christian church, and because of the progress of modern medicine, the power of the sorcerers and healers gradually decreased.
  • (12) The plants are used by 3 principal practitioners: 1) curanderos (healers), who tend to specialize in the care of certain diseases; 2) herbalists, who use many of the materials used in traditional medicine; and 3) brujos, who are sorcerers and witches.
  • (13) 'Diviners', 'medicinemen', 'witches' and 'sorcerers' are defined and distinguished.
  • (14) The traditional providers are the traditional birth attendants, the folk healers, herbalists, faith healers, and the so-called witches and sorcerers, which are not treated in a derogatory manner in the Philippines.
  • (15) The early-evening crowd in this cosy central London pub have no idea that a sonic sorcerer stands in their midst.
  • (16) Isis decapitates its victims, just like our friends the Saudis – but again, they kill alleged “sorcerers” off-camera.
  • (17) The looming debut of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange , a key member of The Avengers in some of the original comic books, has also inspired speculation that the sorcerer supreme could eventually join the superhero team on the big screen.
  • (18) A powder prepared by Haitian voodoo sorcerers for the making of zombis was extracted with acetic acid, the extract concentrated and applied to a small cation exchange column followed by elution with water and then acetic acid.
  • (19) The Marvel universe’s sorcerer supreme is a figure expected to have a central role in the studio’s ambitious next wave of superhero movies.
  • (20) Doctor Strange, who first debuted in 1963, is a former neurosurgeon who protects the planet against magical and mystical threats in his role as Sorcerer Supreme.

Voodoo


Definition:

  • (n.) See Voodooism.
  • (n.) One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo incantations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Another man in a pirate hat covered in voodoo dolls approached the screen, placing a live rooster on the stage as if offering it to the football gods.
  • (2) The winners of all three Edinburgh comedy awards (best show, best newcomer, panel prize) performed at non-big four venues (the Stand, the Voodoo Rooms on the Free Fringe and Bob's Bookshop).
  • (3) She talks passionately about dancing in Haiti: "When Win and I were staying in this place that had windows but no real doors and some drummers started playing, and more drummers came and more drummers came, and they were playing these roots, voodoo rhythms, and we just danced til 5am, and when we were too hot, we just ran and jumped in the ocean."
  • (4) The present paper reviews recent attempts at analyzing some of the most lethal Voodoo poisons which appear to induce catalepsy.
  • (5) Also, this would have probably required some sort of voodoo, as Smith and Jennings are the same type of maddening player that should never be on the court together.
  • (6) Voodoo illness is one of several culture-bound syndromes that nurses need to be familiar with, for an inability to understand voodoo illness may result in the client's death (voodoo death).
  • (7) At the Voodoo Fest in New Orleans in October 2012, 21-year-old Clayton Otwell was offered a single drop of 25I-NBOMe up his nose as a gift from a grateful stranger whose phone he had found.
  • (8) Phrenology, best described as a pseudo or even voodoo science "of the mind", had created its own prolific market for the body parts – especially heads – of Australian and other indigenous people since the late 18th century.
  • (9) Korine is currently putting the finishing touches to a little project that involves him performing a Haitian "voodoo tap-dance" that sends people into a trance.
  • (10) Haitian Voodoo priests control two major practices which might be of interest to toxicologists: healing and poisoning.
  • (11) He describes the psychological mechanisms of voodoo as practiced in West Africa to provide insight into similar practices in the United States.
  • (12) Voodoo is a folk religion that emerged from the interaction of West African ethnotheologies with European Christian rituals.
  • (13) When they heard primitive British electro tracks such as A Guy Called Gerald's Voodoo Ray, they decided to make their own music, creating a bleepy track called Dextrous using a bedroom-based sampler.
  • (14) He dismissed as "voodoo economics" the idea that cutting taxes for wealthy people would generate more revenue.
  • (15) He said there was now a “much more rigorous approach to growth; no more seat of the pants, voodoo management.
  • (16) His low-tax mantra will appeal to Republicans who think Trump’s economic plan is voodoo, to use an old Geroge HW Bush word.
  • (17) The clone encodes the gene for Arabidopsis alternative oxidase, whose deduced amino acid sequence was found to have 71% identity with that of the enzyme from the voodoo lily, Sauromatum guttatum.
  • (18) If White City were Altman's LA, one might imagine Christine Langan getting her voodoo dolls out over the recent high-profile Oscar success of FilmFour , whose Slumdog Millionaire took eight Oscars in February.
  • (19) That he was wholly wrong should, perhaps, give the armies of the offended pause, even if other cartoons – like the filth in Der Stürmer – have misused the voodoo.
  • (20) She regards the coalition's £500m bailout for A&E units in England as "voodoo med-economics" and wants equivalent investment where, in her view, it is needed more – in general practice.