The term Voodoo (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based spiritist-animist religious tradition. Its roots are varied and include the Fon, Ewe, and Yoruba peoples of West Africa, from western Nigeria to eastern Ghana. In Benin, Vodun is the national religion, and followed by around 60% of the population, or some 4½ million people. The word vodún is the Fon-Ewe word for ...

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• Voodoo - The African Origins
• Voodoo - New World Traditions
• Voodoo - Haitian Vodou
• Voodoo - Demographics

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Voodoo: Voodoo is both a corruption of the African Fon word 'Vodou' (which means 'spirit' or 'mystery') and now a powerful spiritual tradition in its own right, most associated with New Orleans and the American South.

Voodoo travelled from Africa in the hearts and souls of Africans who were transported to the Americas during the slave trade. There it became blended with the spiritual practices of the indigenous peoples, who often had a shamanic or animistic belief system, and with the Catholic religion of the slave owners. It recognises one creator-god and a pantheon of angel-like spirits (called Loa) who work on his behalf. The ancestors are a third spiritual force.

All of these spirits may be appealed to for practical help, advice, and support, through prayer, divination and magic. Herbalism also plays a major role in New Orleans Voodoo, where it is known as Hoodoo or root doctoring, and the Voodoo priest and priestess are often powerful healers, working with herbs and with more spiritual and magical healing tools.

Famous names associated with New Orleans Voodoo include Marie Laveau and Dr. John.

(See also: Voodoo, Magic, Shamanism, Paganism, Wicca)

The Voodoo Lady is a very minor character in The Secret of Monkey Island. For the most part, she provides a bit of "spooky" atmosphere early in the game. Although speaking directly to her is not required to complete the game, Guybrush must enter her shop to acquire a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle. Optionally, she can predict Guybrush's future, which involves sailing to Monkey Island, entering a giant monkey, and either being help ...

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Voodoo Lady, Voodoo Lady - Appearances, Voodoo Lady - Trivia

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The Voodoo 2 was a GPU made by 3DFX. The Voodoo2 was released in February 1998 as a replacement for the Voodoo1. The Voodoo2 boosted the core clock-rate from 50MHz to 90MHz, increased the memory bus from 128-bit to 192-bit, and increased texture and framebuffer memory support (up to 8 MB texture / 4 MB frame buffer compared to the Voodoo's 4 MB texture / 2 MB frame buffer.) The larger framebuffer supported a maximum screen resolution of 800x600, while the increased ...

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• Voodoo 2 - Specifications

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New Orleans Voodoo is a system of folk magic used in New Orleans and surrounding areas of Louisiana, in which objects like roots, gris-gris bags, powders, graveyard dirt, and "poppets" or "voodoo dolls" are employed for magical effect for the purpose of material gain or against an enemy. It is more or less synonymous with hoodoo and is not to be confused with the religion of Vodou. Other related archivesArena Football League, Louisiana, New Orleans, New Orleans VooDoo, Vo

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Voodoo - Haitian Vodou. Called Sèvis Gine or "African Service" in Haiti, a Creolized form of Vodou, Haitian Vodou also has strong elements from the Ibo and Bakongo people of Central Africa and the Yoruba of Nigeria, though many different people or "nations" of Africa have representation in the liturgy of the Sèvis Gine, as do the Taíno Indians, the original people of the island now known as Hispaniola. A large and significant portion of Haitian Vodou most often overlooked by scholars, especially English ...

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Voodoo, Voodoo - The African Origins, Voodoo - New World Traditions, Voodoo - Haitian Vodou, Voodoo - Demographics

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Voodoo - Haitian Vodou. Called Sèvis Gine or "African Service" in Haiti, a Creolized form of Vodou, Haitian Vodou also has strong elements from the Bakongo of Central Africa and the Igbo and Yoruba of Nigeria, though many different people or "nations" of Africa have representation in the liturgy of the Sèvis Gine. Among these other nations are the Taíno and Arawak Indians, venerated as the indigenous population (and hence, a form of ancestors) of the island now known as Hispaniola. A large and significa ...

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Voodoo, Voodoo - African origins, Voodoo - New World traditions, Voodoo - Haitian Vodou, Voodoo - Demographics

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3dfx Interactive was a company which specialized in the manufacturing of cutting-edge 3D graphics processing units and, later, graphics cards. After dominating the field for several years in the late 1990s, by the end of 2000 it underwent one of the most high-profile demises in the history of the PC industry. It was headquartered in San Jose, California until, on the verge of bankruptcy, its intellectual assets (and many employees) were acquired by its rival, NVIDIA Corporation. 3dfx - Early history. Founde ...

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• 3dfx - Early history
• 3dfx - Glide driver
• 3dfx - Voodoo Rush
• 3dfx - Voodoo 2
• 3dfx - SLI
• 3dfx - Voodoo Banshee
• 3dfx - Sega Dreamcast
• 3dfx - Decline
• 3dfx - Voodoo 3 and strategy shift
• 3dfx - Voodoo 4 and 5
• 3dfx - Cause for Decline
• 3dfx - Chip table
• 3dfx - See Also

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Christian views on witchcraft arise from scriptural, theological, and historical considerations. Christian views on witchcraft - Modern views. Most modern Christians do not believe that witchcraft genuinely works. Those Christians who do, generally believe that it derives its power from forces of evil. For example, some Christians believe that witches' powers were obtained from a pact with Satan. For some reason, the same views are generally held on supposed witchcraft that does not gain power from Satan. O ...

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• Christian views on witchcraft - Modern views
• Christian views on witchcraft - Scriptural references
• Christian views on witchcraft - Medieval views
• Christian views on witchcraft - Anti-Witchmonger interpretation
• Christian views on witchcraft - English translations of Exodus 22:18

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A zombie is traditionally an undead person in the Caribbean spiritual belief system of voodoo. Essentially a dead body re-animated by unnatural means, the zombie creates dread among the living. Zombies have become a staple of horror fiction, where they usually engage in the consumption of human flesh. The term "zombism" is sometimes used to refer to the condition or disease associated with being a zombie. Zombie - Zombies in voodoo. According to the tenets of voodoo, a dead person can be revived by a hounga ...

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• Zombie - Zombies in voodoo
• Zombie - Zombies in folklore
• Zombie - Zombies in fiction
• Zombie - Zombies in literature
• Zombie - Zombies in film
• Zombie - Zombies in gaming
• Zombie - Zombies on the Internet

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Charles Michael (Chuck) Schuldiner (May 13, 1967, Long Island, New York –December 13, 2001) was an American musician. He is best known for being the founder, singer, virtuoso rhythm/lead guitar player and main song writer of Death, which he founded in 1983 as Mantas. Much later, in 1998, he founded the band Control Denied. He was also an innovator and pioneer of death metal (even though the creation of the genre can be attributed to a few bands that preceded Death/Mantas) and was one of the most influential metal guitarists. His ban ...

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• Chuck Schuldiner - Biography
• Chuck Schuldiner - Early life
• Chuck Schuldiner - Death
• Chuck Schuldiner - Equipment
• Chuck Schuldiner - Other bands
• Chuck Schuldiner - Discography
• Chuck Schuldiner - With Death
• Chuck Schuldiner - With Control Denied
• Chuck Schuldiner - With Voodoo Cult
• Chuck Schuldiner - External link

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In programming, black magic is a tongue-in-cheek description of a technique that works even though nobody really understands why. It is more obscure than voodoo programming, which may be done by cookbook. See also: deep magic. Other related archivesdeep magic, voodoo programming

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The Genie was an unguided air-to-air missile with a nuclear warhead, used by interceptor aircraft of the United States Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force. AIR-2 Genie - Development. The interception of Soviet bombers was a great military preoccupation of the late 1940s and 1950s. The revelation in 1947 that the Soviet Union had produced a reverse-engineered copy of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the Tupolev Tu-4 (NATO reporting name 'Bull'), which could reach the continental United States in a o ...

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• AIR-2 Genie - Development
• AIR-2 Genie - Specifications AIR-2A

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Junk or bunk science is a pejorative term used to derogate purportedly scientific data, research, analyses or claims which are driven by perceived political, financial or other questionable motives. Compare with pseudoscience and controversial science. As with many other ideological terms, there is often no political agreement as to which side of a debate constitutes "junk", and which "real" science, though the scientific community may have an overwhelming majority opinion. Public debates on environmental and public heal ...

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• Junk science - Use of the term
• Junk science - Increased Media Attention To Junk Science
• Junk science - Further reading and information

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A loa (or lwa) is a powerful spirit or deity in the voodoo religion. Voodoo believers assign them quite active roles in everyday life, and ascribe them great powers of possession. Loa: Adjassou-Linguetor Adjinakou Adya Houn'tò Agassou Agwe Ayida-Weddo Ayizan Azaka-Tonnerre Bacalou Badessy Baron Samedi Boli Shah Bossou Ashadeh Boum'ba Maza Bugid Y Aiba Captain Debas

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Culture of Haiti - Religion of Haiti. In Haiti there are four religions: Catholic , Protestant, Islamic , and Voodoo. Although the official religion of Haiti, as inherited from the French colonialists, is Roman Catholicism, about 50% of the population believes in Voodooism, a religion that arose from the slavery-era. The Voodoo religion has been the subject of much repression and misunderstanding in the country's history. Some Christian missionaries incorrectly believe that it is worship of Satan. Such beliefs ex ...

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• Culture of Haiti - Religion of Haiti
• Culture of Haiti - Prostestant Churches
• Culture of Haiti - Literature of Haiti

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Vodou (Haitian Vodou, vodoun, vodun, voodoo, voodooism, Voudoun): Fusion of Roman Catholicism and ancient African polytheism and ancestor worship, practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries.

The words Voodoo and Voudoun stem from the West African word vodun (or vodu), which means spirit or deity.

(See also: Voodoo, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Poppet

A magical doll (also known as ritual effigies, voodoo dolls, Kolossos and Kolossoi) made for the purpose of spell-casting and/or ritual magic in Witchcraft and Voodoo.

Poppets are usually made to represent someone or something that for some reason is not present at the ritual performance, or it is the object of the spell-casting. If the spell is a curse, the poppet is either pierced with pins, nails or shards, bound with cord, covered with hot candle wax or hung by the neck.

This actions are supposed to bring death, misfortune, illness, or to bind and stop someone from a particular activity.

(See also: Poppet, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Voodoo:

A spiritist and ancestor religion, originating in Africa, and now found predominantly in Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba. Magical rites, trance states and possession all play a major role in Voodoo

(See also: Voodoo, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Poppet

A magical doll (also known as ritual effigies, voodoo dolls, Kolossos and Kolossoi) made for the purpose of spell-casting and/or ritual magic in Witchcraft and Voodoo.

Poppets are usually made to represent someone or something that for some reason is not present at the ritual performance, or it is the object of the spell-casting. If the spell is a curse, the poppet is either pierced with pins, nails or shards, bound with cord, covered with hot candle wax or hung by the neck.

This actions are supposed to bring death, misfortune, illness, or to bind and stop someone from a particular activity.

(See also: Poppet, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)