Conjure descends from West African vodun and appears in these tales as a natural religion that has taken root in the American Southern landscape.
Rather than following the Afro-Atlantic Haitian religion more properly termed vodun, she had, in fact, been a devotee of the related Cuban religion Santeria.
Santeria has been portrayed in movies and television since the mid-1980s as a form of Afro-Caribbean ‘black magic’ similar to Haitian vodun, popularly known as ‘voodoo.’
Origin
Fon, 'fetish'.
Definition of vodun in US English:
vodun
nounvōˈdo͞on
another term for voodoo
Example sentencesExamples
Rather than following the Afro-Atlantic Haitian religion more properly termed vodun, she had, in fact, been a devotee of the related Cuban religion Santeria.
Santeria has been portrayed in movies and television since the mid-1980s as a form of Afro-Caribbean ‘black magic’ similar to Haitian vodun, popularly known as ‘voodoo.’
Conjure descends from West African vodun and appears in these tales as a natural religion that has taken root in the American Southern landscape.