英语词汇voodoo的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

voodoo. The Waldensians, followers of Peter Waldo or Valdo (d. 1217), were accused of sorcery and given the name Vaudois by the French. French missionaries later remembered these “heretics” when they encountered the witch doctors who preached black magic in the West Indies. They called the native witch doctors Vaudois and the name was soon applied to any witchcraft similar to the magic spells they cast, Vaudois eventu- ally being corrupted to voodoo. This is the view of Ernest Weekley and some other respected etymologists on the origin of voodoo; however, the Oxford English Dictionary and a majority of au- thorities believe the word derives from the African vodun, a form of the Ashanti obosum, “a guardian spirit or fetish.” Today the West African religion is practiced in its best-integrated form in the villages of Haiti, voodoo having been brought to the New World by slaves as early as the 1600s.

词汇	voodoo
词源	voodoo. The Waldensians, followers of Peter Waldo or Valdo (d. 1217), were accused of sorcery and given the name Vaudois by the French. French missionaries later remembered these “heretics” when they encountered the witch doctors who preached black magic in the West Indies. They called the native witch doctors Vaudois and the name was soon applied to any witchcraft similar to the magic spells they cast, Vaudois eventu- ally being corrupted to voodoo. This is the view of Ernest Weekley and some other respected etymologists on the origin of voodoo; however, the Oxford English Dictionary and a majority of au- thorities believe the word derives from the African vodun, a form of the Ashanti obosum, “a guardian spirit or fetish.” Today the West African religion is practiced in its best-integrated form in the villages of Haiti, voodoo having been brought to the New World by slaves as early as the 1600s.
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