voodoo
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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
Bertrand continues to tinker, and as the misses pile up, I revise my earlier opinion: Aiming a trebuchet is neither art nor science; it’s voodoo.
From Slate • Jul. 7, 2025
So-called PR voodoo is different now that a celebrity – or their fans – can access an audience of millions with a click.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2025
He got to his feet and walked over to me, deliberately stopping four or five feet away, like the pin had some kind of voodoo curse on it.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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The House on Mango Street
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