text: voodoo: A religion practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries, especially Haiti, syncretized from Roman Catholic ritual elements and the animism and magic of slaves from West Africa, in which a supreme God rules a large pantheon of local and tutelary deities, deified ancestors, and saints, who communicate with believers in dreams, trances, and ritual possessions. Also called vodoun . \n\nA charm, fetish, spell, or curse holding magic power for adherents of voodoo. \n\nA practitioner, priest, or priestess of voodoo. \n\nDeceptive or delusive nonsense.