[Ads-l] Square-Bracket Antedating of "Voodoo"

[Shapiro, Fred]

voodoo (OED 1846)

[ 1820 Louisiana Gazette 16 Aug. 2/3 (Newspapers.com)  For some time past, a House in the suburb Treme [accent aigu over second e], has been used as a kind of temple for certain occult practices and the idolatrous worship of an an [sic] African deity called Vaudoo. ... Among the persons arrested, there was one white man; the others were free colored people and slaves. ]

Fred Shapiro

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