(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.
Witchcraft
Definition:
(n.) The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits.
(n.) Power more than natural; irresistible influence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(2) Bikubi's fear of witchcraft was mingled with a strange kind of arrogance.
(3) A senior Haitian diplomat was caught on camera claiming the earthquake would be good for his country and appearing to blame the catastrophe on "witchcraft".
(4) Having examined this system as a whole, the author devotes his attention to a particular set of etiological categories, those which associate illness with witchcraft (nocturnal illnesses).
(5) Detectives said other children in Britain had been subjected to terrible ordeals after being accused of witchcraft, and children's charities and campaigners called for more to be done to make carers and churches aware of possible abuse.
(6) The majority of these works contain the implicit or explicit assumption that witchcraft was a cruel, irrational delusion that resulted in the deaths of perhaps hundreds of thousands or innocent victims (Anderson, 1970).
(7) An accusation of witchcraft by Ms Kisanga's eight-year-old son began child B's ordeal.
(8) "The pastor will say: 'No matter what your problems, I can solve them by protecting you against the evil forces of witchcraft'.
(9) The two dimensions of witchcraft and of sorcery, though distinct, are seen to be essentially related to one another.
(10) As all good students of the Harry Potter saga know well, Muggles are not usually allowed at Hogwarts school of witchcraft of wizardry.
(11) Giving evidence through a French interpreter, Kelly said the pair were fixated on the idea that the three siblings were practising witchcraft.
(12) Immediately, accusations of witchcraft arose; many teams across central and western Africa are known to employ the services of witchdoctors to put curses on their opponents.
(13) In the case of "kokwana" it is said that the snake, "sent" to the child through witchcraft, "eats" the child's food and the child itself.
(14) Witchcraft had preoccupied Bikubi from an early age.
(15) Many Congolese people consider mental illness as a spiritual problem; belief in witchcraft is widespread.
(16) Each referent (divinity, ancestor, magic, witchcraft, etc.)
(17) The rural Xhosa people of South Africa have retained social cohesion through traditional custom, purity of language and the dominant role of ancestor worship, traditional medicine and witchcraft in life-style, beliefs and ceremonies.
(18) The indication was abdominal pain in 4 cases, infertility and abdominal pain in one and prophylaxis against witchcraft in the other.
(19) But child-protection specialists are increasingly coming across a kind of case that few textbooks have prepared them for: abuse of children related to belief in witchcraft.
(20) "He was reporting that his family at the time feared that if he went around saying these things he would be labelled as being affected by witchcraft."