英语词汇black magic的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

black magic; voodoo. Black magic doesn’t divine the future as the black arts do; it is rather the casting of magic spells for an evil purpose. Black magic is a synonym for voodoo, which is found in its purest forms today in the villages of Haiti, where it was encouraged and practiced by the former Haitian dictator “Papa Doc” Duvalier. Voodoo was brought to the New World by African slaves as early as the 1600s, and some authorities be- lieve the word derives from the West African vodun, a form of the Ashanti obosum, “a guardian spirit or fetish.” Others say that voodoo takes its name from the Waldensians, followers of Peter Waldo or Valdo (d. 1217), who were accused of sorcery and given the name Vaudois by the French. French missionar- ies later remembered these “heretics” when they encountered the witch doctors who preached black magic in the West In- dies, this story says. They called the native witch doctors Vau- dois and the name was soon applied to any witchcraft similar to the magic spells they cast, Vaudois being eventually corrupted to voodoo. Americans further corrupted voodoo to “hoodoo,” but use the word in a playful sense.

词汇	black magic
词源	black magic; voodoo. Black magic doesn’t divine the future as the black arts do; it is rather the casting of magic spells for an evil purpose. Black magic is a synonym for voodoo, which is found in its purest forms today in the villages of Haiti, where it was encouraged and practiced by the former Haitian dictator “Papa Doc” Duvalier. Voodoo was brought to the New World by African slaves as early as the 1600s, and some authorities be- lieve the word derives from the West African vodun, a form of the Ashanti obosum, “a guardian spirit or fetish.” Others say that voodoo takes its name from the Waldensians, followers of Peter Waldo or Valdo (d. 1217), who were accused of sorcery and given the name Vaudois by the French. French missionar- ies later remembered these “heretics” when they encountered the witch doctors who preached black magic in the West In- dies, this story says. They called the native witch doctors Vau- dois and the name was soon applied to any witchcraft similar to the magic spells they cast, Vaudois being eventually corrupted to voodoo. Americans further corrupted voodoo to “hoodoo,” but use the word in a playful sense.
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