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  • noun Alternative form of voodoo.

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Examples

  • 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 … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • 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 … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • 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 … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • 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 … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • He mixed mystic populist symbols, such as vodun (voodoo), with brutal repression.

    d. Haiti 2001

  • Stories “The Scent of Copper Pennies” and “Jen at the Crossroads” and poem “The God of the Crossroads” — all about the vodun loa Papa Legba, the opener of the way, and all about parallel universes, but more importantly, all about those linchpin moments in life, those choices that change everything forever after; decisions to leave, or stay, or love, or run away.

    Thematic Circling « 2009

  • The combination of all the elements produces unique collages that are evocative of Haitian vodun paintings.

    Lauri Lyons: The Armory Show; Contemporary Art in New York 2010

  • The combination of all the elements produces unique collages that are evocative of Haitian vodun paintings.

    The Armory Show; Contemporary Art in New York 2010

  • They don't believe the Africans have a rite to their obeah and vodun, which if you look closely into them, are the basis for all religion, with me assuming original religion came out of Africa same as man.

    Jumpin' Off a Riff, Part 2 The Daily Growler 2006

  • Anthropologists have attempted both to highlight and to avoid this stereotype by using a number of terms including vodu, vodun, voudoun, and vodoun.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

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