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Vodou is a West African/Diaspora ancestral religious tradition, whose tradition was imported by Africans enslaved in North and South America, and Haiti and other locations in the New World. The Afro-American and Haitian based tradition of "Voodoo" is a descendant of that belief.

Voodoo may also refer to:

Voodoo may be applied to forms of "magical thinking" in various disciplines:

  • Voodoo programming, a tongue-in-cheek term for using a programming system or language which one does not fully understand
  • Voodoo science, a derogatory term for research that may fall short of the scientific method
  • Voodoo economics, a derogatory term for supply-side economics
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