Vodun

[ voh-duhn ]

noun

1. a polytheistic religion practiced chiefly in coastal West Africa, the practice of which includes worship of spirits tied to the natural world or embodied in fetish objects of worship, and a belief that ancestral spirits share the physical world along with the living.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Vodun¹

First recorded in 1935–40; from Haitian Creole Voodoo