voudoux

Updated: May 21, 2025

Another lady known to me, long resident at the South, tells me that the belief in this sort of devilism is often found among the white people. The practices called Vaudoux or Voudoux, are a sort of Obi; being, like that, an invoking of the aid of some god to do what the worshipers wish.

P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum - The Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries,: Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages