How To Use Voodoo In A Sentence
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Pietrus, born on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, received some treatments on his wrists from what he described as a voodoo priestess this offseason instead of having surgery on his left one.
SplicedFeed
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The Rara bands come out of Voodoo societies that have gay congregations where gay men are permitted to cross-dress with impunity.
Irene Monroe: The Roots Of Voodoo's Acceptance Of Gays
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Actually, I suspect it is really about religion, in the same way that Tropic of Night was about black magic or voodoo or the occult.
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MOST people would freak out at seeing their own voodoo doll.
The Sun
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Many of his paintings were inspired by his religious beliefs, featuring Voodoo scenes and symbols.
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The hundreds of spirits in the voodoo pantheon invest their power in both African imagery and in corresponding identities, including Catholic saints.
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The haughtiness is a pathetic attempt at protective voodoo.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
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So far, I've seen two botanica voodoo shops in Alexandria and Arlington.
Archive 2009-07-01
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But while walking in a park in New Orleans a few days ago, I suddenly got the urge to drop a couple of bucks on what I thought would be a mildly amusing little black magic hoodoo voodoo palm reading.
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She, he told me, was a root woman, a juju woman, a practiser of Voodoo.
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According to widespread Haitian beliefs, voodoo sorcerers would administer a ‘magic powder’ to their victim.
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HOODOO A variation of the word voodoo used commonly in the southern United States.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
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The hunter bought a lucky voodoo charm.
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These include goober (peanut), gumbo (okra), and voodoo (witchcraft).
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I think they might be powered by some kind of voodoo magic.
The Sun
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On Monday, all of the kids were running around with my elvis doll (a "barbie" type elvis doll) pretening it was a "voodoo doll.
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: July 2005 Archives
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Advocates say voodoo is a legitimate African-based religion that has been unfairly maligned in movies and popular culture.
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Hewlett - Packard has merged its Voodoo PC business unit with its consumer business, the company said Wednesday.
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Followers of spirit worship and voodoo, which was introduced into the country by Haitian immigrants, are thought to number about 60,000.
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The story goes that a houngan voodoo priest named Dutty Boukman held a meeting of black slaves and runaways at Bois Caïman in the mountains of the north to prepare to rise up against their oppressors.
What's this "deal with the devil" that Pat Robertson was talking about?
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He exploits his wealth, smooth manners, and sometimes intimidating aspect to secure an engagement with the protagonist's true love, a Southern lady whose "Haytian" servant is secretly a voodoo priestess with some impressive supernatural talents of her own.
Archive 2006-10-15
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In medical school, it had seemed so much voodoo to him, pure mumbo jumbo.
FAMILY PICTURES
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This is the realm of voodoo and magic potions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yeah - there's a definite difference between voodoo and hoodoo.
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Old - fashioned voodoo economics - the belief in tax - cut magic - has been banished from civilized discourse.
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Haiti has just recognized voodoo as an official religion.
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Unfortunately, as a result of the sensational and inaccurate interpretations in the media, Hollywood in particular, the word voodoo has come to represent a fantasy of black magic and sorcery.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
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First, these characters are not placid creatures risen by voodoo for slave labour but the dead, reanimated by a virus, whose single instinct is to eat human flesh.
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Though surprised, the villagers accepted his story because they believed that the power of voodoo magic made such things possible.
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Directed by Stephen Bradley, and starring his wife, comedian Deirdre O'Kane, the story is of student Nathan, played by David Leon, who dies and is brought back to life via voodoo witchery by his mum (O'Kane).
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I can hardly look at them without being overwhelmed with a haze of Voodoo Chile, the whiff of patchouli oil, flashes of free festivals and boating on the River Avon.
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Some scientists claim that voodoo zombies are created with this toxin.
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But will dabbling in the ancient art of voodoo really do the trick?
The Sun
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Have too many furious Labour MPs been sticking pins in their voodoo dolls of him?
The Sun
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Yet heroin is still perceived as the paradigmatic voodoo drug, ineluctably turning its users into zombies who must obey its commands.
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I want to pluck it from his coat and plunge it, voodoo - style, into his chest.
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This is more about hoodoo/voodoo and other forms of black magic.
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As I made my way apprehensively to the Haitian voodoo priestess's basement, I wondered what I should ask for.
With the Voodoo Crowd
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Are fortune-tellers, clairvoyants, palm readers, spiritists and voodoo participants in league with demons?
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There is a fair amount of accounting voodoo that goes into the calculation of the embedded value.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a religion, voodoo was indeed a critical force against the external authority of French colonial and American imperial powers.
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Now all they have to worry about is hexes, black magic, devil worship, voodoo curses and the occult.
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And what of the most mysterious object in the entire exhibition, the life-size figure or voodoo doll?
Times, Sunday Times
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Join onetime Harlem resident DBR and his band, DBR & THE MISSION, as theyperform worksoff ofDBR’s latest record Woodbox Beats & Balladry, with special guests Emeline Michel — beloved in her native country of Haiti for her skillful infusion of social, political and inspirational content into traditional rhythms — and Erol Josué — renowned for his ties to voodoo as well as for his infectious pop music:
Daniel at this Year’s SummerStage «
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Together they unravel and expose the island's medicine woman who delves into the dark secrets of obeah, an ancient mystical practice similar to voodoo.
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Whether the high-tech voodoo works is one thing. But the shredder certainly shreds -- and the shredded paper is recycled as toilet roll.
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There is a short feature on the difference between voodoo and hoodoo, which illuminates how one is an organized religion, and the other is a ritualistic practice of magic.
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English method of cheating involving making the old ball swing by impregnating it with sugary saliva, voodoo or as-yet-unidentified unfair dinkum substance.
The Ashes 2010 A-Z: baggy greens, doing a Harmy and lucky red hankies
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Almost the whole team piled around a table covered with spooky tarot cards and voodoo dolls.
The Sun
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Hence the Celtic designs on Irish crosses that closely resembled Druidic glyphs or Haitian Voodoo rituals that fuse the worship of Catholic saints with that of African Loas.
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The innocence, the quaint amusements, the delightful boardwalk, the lack of Voodoo Juice - it's all got a pure magnetism none of the other towns can match.
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In 1982, an ethnobotanist and independent scholar announced that the chemical is a major component of the voodoo elixir that turns people into zombies.
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Voodoo has been a contributing factor in many horrendous incidences in the United Kingdom in recent years.
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I felt close to these people - they were pagans too, considered witches for their Voodoo practices.
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There is a fair amount of accounting voodoo that goes into the calculation of the embedded value.
Times, Sunday Times
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A kind of parental voodoo invocation is responsible for the rise of Leo, Keira and even Amelie on the list of popular baby names
Movie stars see their name in lights and on babies
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But I'm wondering - do I tempt fate and the gods of baseball by putting some voodoo magic up here?
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Candle clutching crones, eyes and teeth flashing, pray to the locked white-washed church, to ask Bon Dieu Bon (God oversees all the voodoo spirits as he does the Catholic saints) to bless their services.
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And do you know it's controlled by the voodoo religion?
Christianity Today
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The combination of sentiment and silliness works brilliantly, and the sight of Ricky in full voodoo witch doctor regalia mesmerized by his newborn son is an iconographic moment in I Love Lucy's run.
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Have too many furious Labour MPs been sticking pins in their voodoo dolls of him?
The Sun
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And do you know it's controlled by the voodoo religion?
Christianity Today
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Two autobiographical pieces from that time interpreted the illness through voodoo imagery and, he believes, produced a cure.
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The word voodoo comes from the Fon language of Dahomey now Benin and Togo.
The Serpent and the Rainbow
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It is called DupKiller, and is named after cute voodoo evil spirits that are known as "duppies", I think.
IOL Technology
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These beliefs in establishing an actual connection with the world beyond death are closer to the beliefs of African-based religions such as voodoo than to those of Christianity.
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While the poems work as dramatic monologues in their own right, they are also metaphors for the human search for faith and truth, in art, religion and, yes, even voodoo dolls.
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To boost business the team developed new product lines, and discovered an independent design team in Thailand that employs traditional skills to create handmade voodoo dolls.
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At the beginning when companies first venture into CSR most tend to practice what I call CSR voodoo.
Gregory Unruh: Part IV: Capturing - and Sustaining - Value
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The latter are good for spook voodoo mysterioso fortune telling according to Poisson distribution of cars strumming the off-ramp vibes, traffic leaving, t-leafing, casting the auto tarot.
Archive 2007-08-01
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The hundreds of spirits in the voodoo pantheon invest their power in both African imagery and in corresponding identities, including Catholic saints.
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This is the realm of voodoo and magic potions.
Times, Sunday Times
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The United States 'sovereign people, too, have had a tough run -- 40 years of steady decline for the vast majority of us, while the rich (courtesy of "voodoo economics" and the above-named plutocrats) got much richer and corporations ever more powerful.
Paula Gordon: Rule AND Ruin
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I say, get medicine back under traditional scientific authority -- the science of all men everywhere that has incorporated such foreign discoveries as rauwolfia, L-dopa and acupuncture without the accompanying bogus voodoo ideologies and superstitions.
Mail Call: Ancient Healing Arts
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He cleared his throat and began to read, "A zombie is an undead person in the tradition of voodoo."
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Hence the popularity of the new voodoo, which claims, as I said, that elaborate financial rituals can reanimate dead banks.
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The living dead in pop culture are no doubt inspired by the great voodoo zombie legend of Haiti in the heart of the Caribbean.
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The word is vodun in Creole French, the source of the word voodoo as it is misinterpreted and misrepresented in English and Western thought.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
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Voodoo, Witchcraft, Magic, Fortune-telling, and inquiring of the dead are all forms of spiritism.
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Wait, he’s the one who used the term voodoo economics, then became VP to the one he accused.
Think Progress » Former President Bush Blames ‘Bloggers’ for ‘Ugly’ Political Climate
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The spell of these voodoo parts has me.
Times, Sunday Times
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He mixed mystic populist symbols, such as vodun (voodoo), with brutal repression.
D. Haiti
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The name hoodoo comes from the word voodoo and was given to these geological formations by the Europeans," notes a sign on one of the trails.
Canada.com Top Stories
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An expert on African ritual practices who has been advising the police on the case said that it might be linked to West African voodoo.
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I looked like Afro-Caribbean voodoo icon Baron Samedi, who was the spirit at the gateway of death.
Hugh Muir's diary
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You have to conclude it's a kind of parental voodoo invocation, performed in the hope serious beauty will pass on to the newborn sprog.
Movie stars see their name in lights and on babies
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Now all they have to worry about is hexes, black magic, devil worship, voodoo curses and the occult.
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Many people still consult native healers, including witch doctors, voodoo practitioners, and herbalists.
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MOST people would freak out at seeing their own voodoo doll.
The Sun
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Old - fashioned voodoo economics - the belief in tax - cut magic - has been banished from civilized discourse.
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I Fall scimmiottano un po 'se stessi, e non tutto splende, ma cio ` che splende e ` degno del repertorio migliore: altre esaltate danze voodoo (Jerusalem), altre solenni sarabande (Kurious Oranj) altri marziali proclami (New Big Prinz) e persino un bluesrock sincopato alla Rolling Stones
FallNews - they grease the roads! *truckers' pin-up edition*
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African and Caribbean slaves combined Christianity and voodoo; whites traded in coffin spoons, pored over dream books, said the Lord's Prayer backward to ward off rain.
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I was thinking of bidding on the Palin plush voodoo doll, pins included!
Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 8, 2010
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The West African and trans-Caribbean influences in the South are best seen in spiritual ceremonies that evoke elements from voodoo rituals.
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In 1997, I met Priestess Miriam, a voodoo princess who taught me how to hex folks: Write the evildoer's name nine times and insert the paper into the mouth of a snake.
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In a scene played for laughs, he even watches a video about voodoo so he can render her powerless to resist his advances.
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Beyond the evil, pin-covered voodoo dolls and scary zombies of clichéd movie lore lies the complex tapestry of real-life Haitian Vodoun or Voodoo.
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Almost the whole team piled around a table covered with spooky tarot cards and voodoo dolls.
The Sun
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Voodoo Witch" - is more typical Eerie fare, but "The Spider" by "Darling" Dick Ayers - yet another precode "adaption" - is quite a treat.
Archive 2006-01-01
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When people hear the word ‘mystic’, what immediately comes to mind is quackery, voodoo, black magic and the like.
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There is voodoo in the air and a storm is brewing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Portrayals in modern books, films, games, and haunted attractions, are quite different from both voodoo zombies and those of folklore.
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He never had the proper voodoo rituals, and now his duppy is raging, has been all year.
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Voodoo, science, witchcraft, animal spirits, chemistry, alchemy, fairies, physics - it's all the same.
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This is the realm of voodoo and magic potions.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a short feature on the difference between voodoo and hoodoo, which illuminates how one is an organized religion, and the other is a ritualistic practice of magic.
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While some tourists may think it is thrilling to shop at a voodoo supply store or to visit the tomb of Marie Laveau, those same people might not want to sleep in a house that was haunted by voodoo spirits.
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And what of the most mysterious object in the entire exhibition, the life-size figure or voodoo doll?
Times, Sunday Times
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Basically, it's all about consciousness, and in the voodoo religions, zombies are bodies without soul.
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In an NLRB hearing, some promanagement employees said they saw lines of pennies, half-empty cups of water and a prounion employee twisting black beads in her hands, which they took as voodoo signs and veiled threats.
NLRB charges nursing home that alleged use of voodoo
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Nope, instead all this voodoo-inspired wonder hails from decidedly un-tropical Sweden, courtesy of mischievous newcomers Goat.
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Pete claims they can put a curse on you similar to the curses or hexes described by voodoo, witchcraft, or a good mummy story.
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In these culturally sensitive times, the film is quick to point out that Hoodoo is not Voodoo, a West African religion practised by millions.
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The fact that this miraculous profit generation was not even questioned by * anybody* among the so-called expert crowds is proof that whatever rationality there has been in economic theory has given way to Voodoo superstition. piglet Says:
Matthew Yglesias » The Finance Economy
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A voodoo mask on the label reinforces the idea of ritual and adventure.
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Pete claims they can put a curse on you similar to the curses or hexes described by voodoo, witchcraft, or a good mummy story.
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The English under King Harold make a brave stand, but their pointed sticks and voodoo rattles are as nothing against the Normans' tanks, airplanes, and modern artillery.
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Before that, zombie films amounted to cheesy 1930s-inspired movies about voodoo cults.
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The voodoo zombie is not a dead person, but a living person who has been brain damaged.
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Since the epidemic started in mid-October, at least 45 male and female voodoo priests, known respectively as "houngan" and "manbo," have been killed.
Reuters: Top News
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The word is vodun in Creole French, the source of the word voodoo as it is misinterpreted and misrepresented in English and Western thought.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
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Santeria has been portrayed in movies and television since the mid-1980s as a form of Afro-Caribbean ‘black magic’ similar to Haitian vodun, popularly known as ‘voodoo.’
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The hunter bought a lucky voodoo charm.
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MOST people would freak out at seeing their own voodoo doll.
The Sun
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There is a fair amount of accounting voodoo that goes into the calculation of the embedded value.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hence the Celtic designs on Irish crosses that closely resembled Druidic glyphs or Haitian Voodoo rituals that fuse the worship of Catholic saints with that of African Loas.
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‘So let me get this straight,’ I said through hot tears, ‘you've been… voodooing the people around you, to get your way.’
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Others looked to traditions that survived to the present day: to African animism, to Santeria and voodoo, to American Indian religions, even to Hinduism.
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So when someone has a voodoo hex put on him, everyone knows he's a goner, and they withhold food from him - why waste a limited resource?
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The droids are hard at work trying to fix that voodoo machine but, in the meantime, we are stuck adrift in space and not sure where we are.
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Nevertheless, most of what a person learns of her in the touristy parts of the French Quarter are myths, twisted truths and lies - as is often the case with most things voodoo.
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Her parents called on a voodoo priestess to help her, after all traditional medicines had failed.
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The spell of these voodoo parts has me.
Times, Sunday Times
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But my husband gets these crazy ideas that my poppets are voodoo dolls and that I stick pins in them.
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Mr. Thompson sets out to explore the landscape that has fired his imagination by searching out the legends behind the songs, from infamous icons like the actual House of the Rising Sun and voodoo queen Marie Laveau to obscurities like the bayou ax murderer who craved hot jazz.
A Road Trip in Search of Ghosts
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Meanwhile, as the country was temporarily distracted by a 9/11 hoax hatched by superstitious goobers using their voodoo tome to motivate the burning of a rival's superstitious falderal, the United States government was selling billions of dollars of weaponry to the very country from which our attackers and their mastermind hail, Saudi Arabia.
James Campion: The Money Season
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The mambo derives its power from Creole voodoo.
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But it also plays with core elements of the Haitian voodoo tradition, of Caribbean magic, and of African rituals as well.
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MOST people would freak out at seeing their own voodoo doll.
The Sun
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The mambo derives her power from Creole voodoo.
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The country reflects African music and culture - the Creole cuisine features myriad varieties of exotically spiced fish and seafood, and rural residents practice gris-gris, the local voodoo.
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Zombies are dead bodies with no souls, created by the black magic of voodoo sorcerers.
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The Slender Loris has been hunted for centuries in Sri Lanka for its purported qualities as an aphrodisiac, asthma cure and as a kind of living voodoo doll.
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I even drew pentagrams and the symbols of the zodiac around the page's border, to send Amy some positive voodoo brain-energies.
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The two main religions are Roman Catholicism and Voudou, or Voodoo, a mixture of African animism (belief in spirits and nature) and Christianity.
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It's a Hoodoo tale, which means it features the peculiar magical practices that combine voodoo with Louisiana black arts culled from Tahiti, Native American, and slave superstition.
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In 1980, George H.W. Bush called Reaganism "voodoo economics.
Poll: Hillary's "Experience" Argument And Obama's "Change" Argument Both Working
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Is this an ill omen, I wonder, or some kind of inner-city voodoo ritual?
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There is voodoo in the air and a storm is brewing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Magic, including spiritualism, palmistry, fortune-telling by cards, hot chestnuts, double-kernelled nuts and tallow droppings; would have adopted Voodoo and Oboe had it known anything about them, and showed itself, in every way, one of the most accommodating arrangements that had ever been invented since the birth of the Sea.
Soldiers Three
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I think they might be powered by some kind of voodoo magic.
The Sun
