Vaudoux

English

Noun

Vaudoux (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of voodoo.
   • 1850, The Illustrated London News, page 275:

     At midnight he and the Empress went out without guards, and accompanied only by some persons believing in the ceremonies of the Vaudoux.

   • 1862, Edward Bean Underhill, The West Indies: Their Social and Religious Condition, page 160:

     This religion, if it may be so called, is known as the religion of Vaudoux. It came in with the original colonists from Africa.

   • 1889, Sir Spenser St. John, Hayti: Or, The Black Republic (page 226)

     […] the powerful influence exercised on the inhabitants by the sect or the society of the Vaudoux, so spread throughout the country; […]