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
"There has always been an army of advisors and consultants doing PR voodoo," says Eriq Gardner, entertainment law expert and founding partner of Puck News.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2025
Sometimes I spent nights there after particularly depressing fights with Lelia, which were really more nonfights, those bleak evenings in which we sat crossly at different ends of the loft, smoldering with voodoo.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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