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Juju or ju-ju (French: joujou, lit. 'plaything') [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is a spiritual belief system incorporating objects, such as amulets , and spells used in religious practice in West Africa [ 3 ] by the people of Nigeria , Benin , Togo , Ghana , and Cameroon . [ 4 ]
The spelling Voodoo, once common, is now generally avoided by practitioners and scholars when referring to the Haitian religion. [62] This is both to avoid confusion with Louisiana Voodoo , a related but distinct tradition, [ 63 ] and to distinguish it from the negative connotations that the term Voodoo has in Western popular culture .
A West African Tuareg gris-gris. Gris-gris (/ ˈ ɡ r iː ˌ ɡ r iː /, also spelled grigri, and sometimes also "gregory" or "gerregery") [1] is a Voodoo amulet originating in West Africa which is believed to protect the wearer from evil or bring luck, [2] and in some West African countries is used as a purported method of birth control.
The video for "Voodoo Juju", which was inspired by a real-life accident of Commerford's, shows him undergoing spinal surgery, with good friend and bandmate Tom Morello playing a greedy doctor and Rush members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson featured as Canadian doctors.
Alternative American names for the mojo bag include gris-gris bag, [1] hand, mojo hand, toby, nation sack, conjure hand, lucky hand, conjure bag, juju bag, trick bag, tricken bag, root bag, and jomo. The word mojo also refers to magic and charms. Mojo containers are bags, gourds, bottles, shells, and other containers.
Papa Legba is a lwa, or loa, in West African Vodun and its diasporic derivatives (Dominican Republic Vudú, Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Voodoo, and Winti), who serves as the intermediary between God and humanity.
Louisiana Voodoo, or New Orleans Voodoo, a set of African-based spiritual folkways Trinidadian Vodunu , a syncretic religion practiced in Trinidad and Tobago Voodoo in popular culture , fictional characterizations of various forms of Voodoo
The anthropologist Timothy R. Landry noted that, although the term Vodun is commonly used, a more accurate name for the religion was vodúnsínsen, meaning "spirit worship". [1] The spelling Vodun is commonly used to distinguish the West African religion from the Haitian religion more usually spelled Vodou ; [ 1 ] this in turn is often used to ...