[F.] = VOODOO sb. Also attrib.
1864. R. F. Burton, Mission to Gelele (1893), I. 62. The Vaudoux or small green snake of the Haytian negroes, so well-known by the abominable orgies enacted before the ‘Vaudoux King and Queen.’
1884. in Sir S. St. John, Hayti, v. 208. The fetish sect of Vaudoux, imported into Hayti by the slaves coming from the tribes on the western coast of Africa. Ibid., vii. 247. A freshly built temple dedicated to the Vaudoux worship.
