Vodou
[ voh-doo ]
/ ˈvoʊ du /
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noun
an Afro-Caribbean religion practiced chiefly by Haitians, deriving principally from West African Vodun and containing elements borrowed from the Roman Catholic religion.
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Origin of Vodou
First recorded in 1880–85; from an Indigenous language spoken in Benin
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