Vodou

Maureen -- why yes, I am "vodou" on the Writers' BBS. ❋ Douglas Hoffman (2005)

Traditionally spelled 'vodou' or 'vodrun', often to disassociate the negative implications ❋ Unknown (2011)

Back in the capital, ebullient Creole evangelical hymns still reverberate in the mornings from the mountainsides and ravines that crisscross the city, and radios still pump out a non-stop diet of sinuous konpa music of the kind that first brought Michel Martelly to prominence along with the driving racine rhythms of vodou and endless political chatter. ❋ Michael Deibert (2011)

Dutty Boukman, a high priest of vodou and leader of the Maroon slaves, during a nocturnal religious ceremony at Bois Caïman. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So people keep talking about haiti and vodou; here's an interview with someone who is actually haitian and part of the voudou community speaking on its history and impact. ❋ Skywardprodigal (2010)

The artwork represents the daily stuff of Haitian life, like forms of labor, scenes inside village huts, vodou imagery, and landscapes. ❋ Beverly Bell (2011)

By the way Haiti did in fact give official recognition to vodou as a religion. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The constant clashes of the xtians who are taking this catastrophe as their opportunity to defeat witchcraft vodou by denying water, food, shelter and medical care to vodoussants is making the chaos worse. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By the way, the fad for changing the spelling of “voodoo” to “vodou” in news stories about Haiti is just another example of the long-running campaign to make the American public more ignorant by cutting them off from their past learning by changing names. ❋ Unknown (2010)