Voodoo

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Voodoo may refer to:

[edit] Religion

• West African Vodun is the original form of the religion Voodoo;
• Haitian Vodou and Louisiana Voodoo are descendants of West African Vodun, which became prominent due to the importation of African slaves in the New World.

[edit] Aircraft

• F-101 Voodoo, a supersonic military fighter
• CF-101 Voodoo, the F-101 in Canadian service
• XF-88 Voodoo, a prototype jet fighter aircraft, the F-101's predecessor

[edit] Music

• Voodoo (album), a 2000 soul album by D'Angelo
• Voodoo (King Diamond album), a 1998 progressive heavy metal album
• Voodoo (Max on the Rox album), a 2000 blues/rock album
• Voodoo-U, an album by Lords of Acid
• "Voodoo", a song by Godsmack
• "Voodoo Chile" and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", songs by Jimi Hendrix
• "Voodoo Child", a song by Rogue Traders
• "Voodoo", a song by Spice Girls
• Voodoo Music Experience, a two day concert in New Orleans around Halloween
• Voodoo Glow Skulls, a skacore-punk band
• Voodoo People, a song by The Prodigy

[edit] Comics

• Brother Voodoo (Jericho Drumm), a Marvel Comics character
• Voodoo (Wildstorm) (Priscilla Kitaen), a Wildstorm comics character

[edit] Magical thinking

Voodoo may be applied to forms of "magical thinking" in various disciplines:

• Voodoo economics, a derogatory term for supply-side economics
• Voodoo programming, a tongue-in-cheek term for using a programming system or language which one does not fully understand
• Voodoo science, a derogatory term for research that may fall short of the scientific method

[edit] Other

• VoodooPC, a brand of high-end personal computers
• New Orleans VooDoo, an arena football team
• Voodoo Graphics PCI, graphics hardware for computers