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n. - A religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti).

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  • I remember particularly there was a program that had to do with voodooism and the whole thing of spirituality.
  • This voodooism which they clearly wanted to portray was more of the story line than anything else in this plot.
  • It isn't true, for example, for voodooism, or the belief that the earth is flat, or Humean skepticism, or philosophical naturalism.
  • If he thought "the Viennese quack" and "Freudian voodooism" were so useless and banal, why couldn't he stay off the subject, or the subtext?
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