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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 211 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VOODOO or VAUDOUX (See also:

Creole Fr. vaudoux, a See also:negro sorcerer, probably originally a See also:dialectic See also:form of Fr. Vaudois, a Waldensian), the name given to certain magical practices, superstitions and See also:secret See also:rites prevalent among the negroes of the See also:West Indies, and more particularly in the See also:Republic of See also:Haiti.

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