-> "Listen to the creepy proclamation
-> Blown past the lairs of the forest-nation
-> Blown past the white-ant's hill of clay
-> Blown past the marsh where the butterflies play
-> 'Be careful what you do, or
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--> Vachel Lindsay, "[[DarkestAfrica The Congo, A Study of the Negro Race.]]"

This is a form of magic in either [[WelcomeToTheCaribbeanLuv Caribbean]] or [[TheBigEasy New Orleans-ian]] flavors. (It'll be interesting to see if voodoo disappears from [=N'Awlins=] post-Katrina.) Many practitioners call themselves priests or priestesses, and they almost always do have supernatural powers, regardless of whether supernatural powers appear elsewhere in TheVerse. Sympathetic magical dolls are a classical trick, as is making [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]]. Other practitioners simply use [[FortuneTeller tarot cards]], which predict the future; these cards also always work, even if they have to rewrite reality to do it.

What you ''don't'' see in the practice of Hollywood Voodoo is anything resembling an actual religious ceremony. RealLife Vodou is a religion; what Hollywood has is TheThemeParkVersion of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_%28folk_magic%29 hoodoo]], the underlying folk magic system thereof.
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* MarvelComics has [[strike:Brother]] ''Doctor'' Voodoo, a Haitian sorcerer who often collaborated with DoctorStrange.
* DCComics has the more modern character Empress, of ''YoungJustice'', who directly addresses the misconceptions about the vodoun she learned from her grandmother.
* In ''{{Preacher}}'', Jesse Custer seeks help from a Voodoo practitioner to get information out of his subconscious. While the ceremony is beginning, he comments on this trope, saying he thought the priest would be more like the James Bond example below. Immediately after he starts hallucinating and sees the priest as that character.

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* The early sound film ''WhiteZombie'', making this OlderThanTelevision.
* The ''ChildsPlay'' film series.
* Subverted in the movie ''{{Dogma}}'', when Loki makes a voodoo doll and, well, here is the whole thing:
-->'''Loki:''' "I forgot my little voodoo doll."
-->[looks at Whitland]
-->'''Loki:''' "Wow. It really does look just like you. Maybe, if I believed enough..."
-->[pauses, then crushes voodoo doll of Whitland, who is terrified but unharmed]
-->'''Loki:''' [laughs] "I don't believe in voodoo."
-->[leaves]
-->'''Loki:''' [re-enters with a gun] "But I do believe in this."
-->[shoots everyone]
*The JamesBond film ''LiveAndLetDie.'' Magic and Voodoo are central to the plot, and it works in a universe where nothing else supernatural is even remotely mentioned.
* ''TheBluesBrothers 2000.'' "Nassau's gone funky..."
** Of course, TheBluesBrothers 2000 pretty much runs on RuleOfFunny.
*** [[YourMileageMayVary In theory.]]
* ''{{Weekend at Bernie}}'s 2'' reanimates the titular corpse (which, due to a glitch in the spell, only works when calypse music is playing) and eventually turns two mooks into a pair of goats.
* The {{MST3K}} film ''ZombieNightmare''
* Pedro Cerrano in ''MajorLeague''
* TheSkeletonKey, though they get bonus points for distinguishing between voodoo and hoodoo magic. A fairly creepy movie still, considering the occult subtext is not even revealed until halfway through the move. And no zombies or fortune-telling, [[spoiler: the villains are centuries-old hoodoo practitioners who use [[HermeticMagic precise rituals]] to [[BodySwap jump bodies]] (making them essentially immortal) and leave their victims trapped as senile catatonics in their old bodies.]]
* The PiratesOfTheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest, although it's debatable whether this is actual voodoo or [[spoiler: the residual power of Calypso.]]
** She is also described as an ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obeah Obeah]]'' woman.
* Lest we forget, ''IndianaJones'' had to deal with being the victim of a voodoo doll during his ''Temple of Doom'' adventures.
** Indian Voodoo Dolls, nonetheless.
*** Sympathetic magic poppets ''are'' cross cultural, though it is difficult to say if India has a version of the stabby-pain variant.
* A central theme in ''Eve's Bayou''.
*''{{Angel Heart}}''. Although it was difficult to tell where the voodoo ended and the Satanism began.

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* The kid-lit horror book ''ZombieQueen''.
* Parodied in the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel, ''Witches Abroad''. Discworld's magic has a tendency to make beliefs real, and enough people believing strongly enough can do just about anything. The voodoo works because the voodoo witch, Mrs. Gogol, believes it will... and then she makes the mistake of trying it on Granny Weatherwax, who knows ''all'' about belief and magic. She makes the spell backfire ... literally.

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* These are the favourites of the Voodoo Lady in the ''MonkeyIsland'' games.
* Averted superbly in the first ''GabrielKnight'' game, which features extensive exposition on actual, real-life voodoo and its history.
** Although they somewhat shot themselves in the foot on the issue when the owner of the historical voodoo museum, who gives a lot of exposition about the religious and historical context of voodoo [[spoiler: turns out to be an evil cultist after all, whose leader is possessed by the spirit of a dead voodoo priestess]].
* Pretty much the central theme in ''Shadowman''.
* A minor mission chain in ''GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' has Tommy being gradually [[MindManipulation zombified]] by a voodoo priestess crime boss.
* [[spoiler:Mr. Sunshine]] in [[SaintsRow Saints Row 2]]. The first time you encounter him face to face he simply drugs you into a stupor, but the next he's knocking you about with voodoo magic.

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* The Carrionites in ''DoctorWho'' (mostly based on European witches) also use some kind of voodoo, stealing a lock of the Doctor's hair and using it to make a doll which they then stab in the heart, stopping the Doctor's heart...fortunately, [[IHaveTwoKidneys he has two]].
** The voodoo used by the Carrionites is actually based on Eastern European witchcraft, which made extensive use of dolls called poppets.
*** Still somewhat follows the trope, as real life hoodoo is descended from Eastern Eauropean Witchcraft (amongst many other things). Though Hoodoo isn't that big on dolls.
*** The Carrionites are also [[WitchSpecies aliens]] who predate the existence of planet Earth. SoYeah.
* An early episode of ''{{Bones}}'' set in New Orleans after Katrina centered around the machinations of an evil voodoo priest. Brennan and Booth also recruited a good voodoo to help them catch the villain. However, all the murders in the episode were accomplished by quite ordinary means, and there's no indication that the hoodoo practiced in the episode (which may also have been called "voodoo") worked any better than any other kind of magic (i.e. not at all.)
** Or *does* it work? They actually do a quite good job of leaving the belief and ambiguity there. Did Bones have issues remembering what happened because of the Voodoo spell, or the blow to the head? :)
* In one episode of ''MyNameIsEarl'', Catalina's nephew practices something similar to voodoo, even though he's supposed to come from SouthOfTheBorder, which doesn't feature such beliefs.
** Not even Indigenous folk beliefs?
* The BloodTies episode "Bad Juju."
* Utterly subverted on {{Castle}}, as Rick actually talked to a practitioner about the religion, and she was portrayed in a normal manner.
** When he saw her after writing the book he had gone to her to research, she was somewhat annoyed at the way he portrayed her religion (which, apparently, was more along the lines of traditional Hollywood Voodoo).

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* At one point, PennyArcade had a voodoo doll as a throwaway joke. When trying to figure out how to get rid of it, Gabe and Tycho settled on burning it. Cue the [[JohnRomero victim]] walking down a sunny street whistling a merry tune...and then "MY FLESH!"
* ''SluggyFreelance'' had Gwynn make a voodoo doll of Riff in an attempt to gain revenge on him; she quickly threw it in a cupboard when Zoe came into the room, with the result that Riff immediately threw himself into a cupboard...

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* Somewhat averted with [[WorldOfDarkness Mage: the Awakening]]. There is a Legacy of mages who raise zombies and have a strongly vodoun bent. However, they name themselves the Bokor, and base themselves almost entirely around the aspect of the religion [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokor of the same name]].
** ''MageTheAscension'' has the Bata'a, an umbrella-term for Mages who practice Yoruba-based faiths such as Vodou, Santeria, Lucumi, Hoodoo, obviously Yoruba itself, among others. For a long time it was the largest independent Craft in the world (ie, not part of the Ten Traditions), before joining the [[MagicalNativeAmerican Dreamspeakers]].
* ''{{Scion}}'' generally averts the trope by featuring the Loa as one of the pantheons and elaborating on their influences. While the signature character of Brigitte de la Croix does raise zombies and drive a hearse, it's not because she practices voudon, but because her dad's Baron Samedi. And her rival is a daughter of Erzulie who plays the ''hell'' out of the "love goddess" imagery.
* {{Ravenloft}}'s domain of Souragne is built out of this trope. Voodoo also turns up in Gothic Earth's version of Haiti and New Orleans.

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* ''ThePJs'' features Haiti Lady, a practicing Voodoo priestess.
** Of course, the extent of her powers varies from episode to episode. The most believable curse (at least to the other residents) is giving Sanchez (a lifelong smoker) cancer of the larynx.
* One episode of ''TwoStupidDogs'' had Super Secret Squirrel battle a Voodoo practicing goat who has made dolls of Super and The Chief to controll them. Morocco Mole finds the dolls and starts playing with them. HilarityEnsues.
* [[LiloAndStitch Lilo]] makes Voodoo dolls of the other girls and dunks them in pickle juice, [[CloudCuckooLander blithely explaining that]] "[[BewareTheNiceOnes my friends need to be punished.]]"
* ''ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' looks like it'll be using plenty of this, to enhance its [=N'Awlins=] setting. Just watch Dr. Facilier's VillainSong "Friends On the Other Side" and you'll see how much "''voodoo''" to Disney means the same as "magic".
*C'mon, it's [[DisneyAcidSequence Disney]]. [[RuleOfCool ''Everything'' is magical.]]

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