1. A religion of West African origin practiced chiefly in Haiti and other Caribbean countries, based on animism, magic, and elements of Roman Catholic ritual, and characterized by belief in a supreme God and a large pantheon of local and tutelary deities, deified ancestors, and saints, who communicate with believers in dreams, trances, and ritual possessions. Also called vodoun.

2. A practitioner, priest, or priestess of voodoo.

3. Deceptive or delusive nonsense.

1. Of or relating to the beliefs or practices of voodoo.

2. Based on unrealistic or delusive assumptions: voodoo economics.