Quotes About Voodoo

It is not a question of whether I believe in voodoo. I am a scholar and, as such, I have studied the concept of voodoo. I have created the faculty of Afro-Haitian ethnology in our university where the concept of voodoo is taught. Voodoo is not superstition. It is a philosophy, a conception of God.

I would love for there to be a 'Voodoo Dreams' movie, especially after seeing the glorious 'Beasts of the Southern Wild.' I so admired how the filmmakers captured Louisiana and the magical atmosphere. I cried.

I understand witchcraft being from the islands. You can't be from the Caribbeans and say that you don't know voodoo or don't know about it. Or that you don't know someone who has practiced it. It's just that in my family we never did. People in extreme impoverished situations if they ain't reaching out to God, they reaching out to the other side.

I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts.

It looks like a typical voodoo sacrifice. (Fang) Well, slap my ass and call me Sally if you're not bright. (Thorn)

Let's just say this. Do the words voodoo, live chickens, a love potion, and two dingbat females riding a Harley mean anything to you?

I sent mental voodoo arrows into the back of his had the whole way.

I sent mental voodoo arrows into the back of his head the whole way.

Papa Legba was a prominent loa in voodoo mythology. Guardian of the Crossroads, facilitator of communication between the material and spirit worlds,

Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.

Jim Tile was questioning Augustine about the skulls on the wall. "Cuban voodoo?

Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.

If he had to have strange powers, Aden wished they could have been more like hers. That voodoo voice would have made his life a lot easier; he could have sent certain people (cough Ozzie cough) away with no memory of him.

Toothbrushes kept company with cellophane-packaged voodoo dolls and all the other little things that tourists might have forgotten to bring with them. Charles

Or possibly "I like cake." (She likes cake. This is one of four things I know about her. The others are: 2. Her name is Zuzana, 3. she's in her last year at the Lyceum, so is probably eighteen, which is young but not heinously young, and 4. she can freeze a person's blood with a look. I've seen it happen, though I have not been on the receiving end. She has voodoo eyes, and is more than slightly terrifying.

Voodoo Girl Her skin is white cloth, and she's all sewn apart and she has many colored pins sticking out of her heart. She has many different zombies who are deeply in her trance. She even has a zombie who was originally from France. But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick farther in.

London," Bobby said. "She had to trade me this to get the serious voodoo shit. Thought they wouldn't have anything to do with her. Fuck of a lot of good it did her. They've been fading, sort of blurring. You can still raise em, sometimes, but their personalities run together.…

In the Springtime of his voodoo, he was going to show me spring.

The wretched of the earth get no help from witch doctors, and when academic language gets beyond shouting distance of ordinary speech, voodoo is all it is.

Individually, the experience of most people was of accelerating impotence and incomprehension. They lived in a world of superstition. They relied on voodoo - charms, fetishes, and crystal balls whose caprices they were helpless to govern, yet without which the conduct of daily life came to a standstill. Faith that the computer would switch on one more time and do as it was asked had more a religious than a rational cast. When the screen went black, the gods were angry.

It was as though she practiced some shameful art: black magic, voodoo, or poetry.

Maybe art itself was a kind of voodoo, possessing you, giving you supernatural power, letting you see in the dark.

'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.