71 examples of voodoo in sentences
Well, that's got a tame voodoo in it.
"He's a fine voodoo, with wavery arms and gr
" Watching narrowly its effect he swung off into one of the genuine old crooning voodoo songs, once so common down South, now so rarely heard.
"Dat he King Voodoo song!
"Voodoo" muttered the Nigger.
Why don't you kill a few bull seal for the 'trimmings'?" "Nothin' to do with a voodoo?" grunted Handy Solomon.
"Voodoo! Voodoo!"
"Voodoo! Voodoo!"
Boomerang (Australian) Voodoo (African) Potato (Haytian) Skunk (American Indian) Guano (Peruvian) Buncombe
Such utterances are mere sanctimonious ; I had rather listen to the of a voodoo conjurer.
It tells how young Charlie Shandross, bidding his preposterous soldier uncle be hanged, shook the stale dust of Ballybar off his feet, served three years in the C.M.R., and so prepared himself for the deadly adventure of the rod of the snake, the image of the ape, the Haytian attaché and the sinister priestess of Voodoo ritesParis its setting.
V. practice sorcery &c n.; cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate &c (influence) 615; taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead.
Adj. magic, magical; mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic, phylacteric^, incantatory; charmed &c v.; Circean, odylic^, voodoo.
Sorcerer N. sorcerer, magician; thaumaturgist^, theurgist; conjuror, necromancer, seer, wizard, witch; hoodoo, voodoo; fairy &c 980; lamia^, hag. warlock, charmer, exorcist, mage^; cunning man, medicine man; Shaman, figure flinger, ecstatica^; medium, clairvoyant, fortune teller; mesmerist; deus ex machina [Lat.]; soothsayer &c 513.
" "'Look a-yeah, yo' spraddle-nosed, yalluh voodoo nigguh,' said the black sergeanthe was as black as a stovepipeto the blinking chief, 'jes' shake yo' no-count bones an' tote dat wattuh yo'se'f.
Dominique was not a Voodoo!
H. Horton Sheldon (A); 31May57; R193144. SHELLABARGER, SAMUEL. Voodoo; a murder mystery, by John Esteven, pseud.
SHELLABARGER, VIVIAN G. L. Voodoo.
Voodoo in New Orleans.
H. Horton Sheldon (A); 31May57; R193144. SHELLABARGER, SAMUEL. Voodoo; a murder mystery, by John Esteven, pseud.
SHELLABARGER, VIVIAN G. L. Voodoo.
Voodoo in New Orleans.
Walt Disney's Donald Duck in voodoo hoodoo.
The only class of original contributions made by the negroes to our stock of superstitions is that of the hoodoo or voodoo signs which are brought from Africa by the ancestors of the present colored people of America.
VOODOO, name given to a system of magic and superstitious rites prevalent among certain negro races.