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Voodoo;

vudu/ [voo-doo]
[noun, plural-doos, adjective, verb,-dooed, -doo·ing.]

–noun
1. Also, vodun. a polytheistic religion practiced chiefly by West Indians, deriving principally from African cult worship and containing elements borrowed from the Catholic religion.

2. a person who practices this religion.

3. a fetish or other object of voodoo worship.

4. a group of magical and ecstatic rites associated with voodoo.

5. of, pertaining to, associated with, or practicing voodoo.

Informal:
Usually Disparaging. characterized by deceptively simple, almost magical, solutions or ideas: voodoo politics.

Origin:
1810–20, Americanism; < LaF, earlier vandoux, vandoo < a West African source perh. akin to Ewe vodũ demon

Tattoo Artists:: Jay Baxter, John Lally , Joey Rossi got crazy Voodoo ;o)