I use the term vodoun because it seems to me to be phonetically the most accurate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

Within the vodoun society, there are no accidents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

Max Beauvoir held a commercial vodoun ceremony every night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

But off all the places for vodoun, would you choose Norwich?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanna buy a few bridges?] Reference

As a result, vodoun medicine acts on two quite different levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

LEGBA A vodoun loa, the spirit of communication and the crossroad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

CLAIRIN Inexpensive clear white rum used commonly in vodoun ritual.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

As at other vodoun gatherings I had attended, there were more women than men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

CHEVAL The horse; in vodoun parlance the individual who is mounted by the spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

Even individuals otherwise sympathetic to vodoun have made extraordinary statements.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

SERVI LOA The term used by vodoun acolytes to refer to their faith, “to serve the loa.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

You may want to find a more obscure island on which to combine Haitian smuggling and vodoun.    From Wordnik.com.  [HH Com 376] Reference

It struck me that this gathering of the Bizango was like the beginning of any vodoun service.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

Only then will you begin to know vodoun, and only then will you step into the path of the loa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

HOUNFOUR The vodoun temple, including the material structure and the acolytes that serve there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

Rather than their co-opting a traditional vodoun pilgrimage, quite the opposite had taken place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

And by vodoun definition, anyone who suffers an unnatural magical death may be raised as a zombi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

From these nocturnal assemblies and within the passion of the vodoun rituals, the idea of liberty spread.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

At least once he had all the vodoun priests in the country brought to the national palace to confer with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

As it turned out, his knowledge of vodoun was superficial, and in fact he had nothing to do with the British government.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

The vodoun society, for example, spins a web of belief that is all-inclusive, that generates an illusion of total comprehension.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

In short, whatever his motives, François Duvalier succeeded in penetrating the traditional vodoun society on a number of levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

But the longer I remained in Haiti, and the more I learned of the vodoun society, the more impressed I was by its internal cohesion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

If vodoun charged the revolt, the tactics and organization of the rebel bands came directly from the precedent established by the Maroons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

LOA The deities of the vodoun faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

ERZULIE A vodoun loa, the spirit of love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

“vodoun is vodoun, zombis are zombis.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

GUEDE A vodoun loa, the spirit of the dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

GRANS BWA A vodoun loa, the spirit of the forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

vodoun vs., 72–73, 85, 170–71, 205, 256.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference

vodoun as basis of society in, 12, 72–73, 110, 183–84, 212.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent and the Rainbow] Reference