voodoo

Example Sentences

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Baron Samedi, a shadowy cane-wielding, top-hatted Haitian voodoo figure, slips in and out of the hubbub, with Leonardo Brito’s performance feeling more ad-libbed by the dancer than astutely choreographed by Ms. García.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

The ghost tours in New Orleans are borderline legendary, with popular offerings focusing on the supernatural, New Orleans’ “Casket Girls,” and on the origins of Marie Laveau’s rise to notoriety as a voodoo priestess.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 27, 2025

While we wouldn’t rule out the possibility he has a huge collection of Labubus or Malibu Stacy dolls, he seems more like the type to use voodoo dolls.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2025

As the graveyard requiem kept escalating in its intensity, I remembered the advice that Clinton gave to Eddie Hazel when he first unleashed that voodoo guitar seance: “Play like your mother just died.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025

See the concrete bam where workers live, the small church with tall voodoo drums for calling spirit, the wash flapping, women roasting peanuts, men slapping dominoes, pigs running here and there.

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple