<font color="#ff0000">Voodoo & Hoodoo</font>

Voodoo







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Voodoo (Vodou, Vodoun, Vudu, or Vudun in Benin, Togo, southeastern Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Senegal; also Vodou in Haiti) is a name attributed to a traditionally unwritten West African spiritual system of faith and ritual practices. 



Like most faith systems, the core functions of Voodoo are to explain the forces of the universe, influence those forces, and influence human behavior. Voodoo's oral tradition of faith stories carries genealogy, history and fables to succeeding generations. Adherents honor deities and venerate ancient and recent ancestors. 



This faith system is widespread across groups in West Africa. Diaspora spread Voodoo to North and South America and the Caribbean.













Hoodoo







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Hoodoo refers to African traditional folk magic. A rich magical tradition which was (for thousands of years), indigenous to ancient African botanical, magio-religious practices and folk cultures, its practice was imported when mainly West Africans were enslaved and brought to the United States.













Differences between Voodoo and Hoodoo







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Hoodoo and Voodoo are often mistaken for one another. Some believe that the terms may have a common etymology, with the religious persecution and suppression of the Voodoo religion in America, "hoodoo" is what remains.



The ancient African religion of Voodoo is an established religion with its ancient roots in West Africa. Its modern form is practiced across West Africa in the countries now known as Benin, Togo, and Burkina Faso, among others. It is practiced all throughout West Africa; particularly, among members of the Fon, Ewe and other West African groups. In Haiti it is practiced in a syncretic form that has been greatly modified by contact with the Catholic church.



In the U.S., Hoodoo is not a religion -- that is, it is spiritual and magical in nature, but it does not have an established theology, clergy, laity, or order of liturgical services. Hoodoo shows obvious and evident links to the practices and beliefs of African folk magico-religious culture. The Hoodoo practiced in the U.S. by the enslaved Africans was brought from West and Central Africa, specifically, the area that is now known as the Congo and Angola, Togo, Nigeria and other West African regions.





Voodoo是西非流傳已久的古老宗教，海地的Voodoo更整合了西方的天主教，沒有成文法典，口傳內容以族群系代的歷史為主。而Hoodoo是Voodoo在美洲被迫害之後的留下來的東西。美國的Hoodoo沒有確立的教義、神職人員和儀式，並不能稱為宗教。Hoodoo由來自中西非被運送到美國的黑人引進，尤其是剛果、安哥拉、多哥、奈及利亞等地。