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Hoodoo was showcased in the 2005 horror-suspense movie, The Skeleton Key, starring Kate Hudson (correctly emphasizing that it was hoodoo that was being used), and in the 2009 Disney movie The Princess and the Frog.
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Like many other religions and practices, people learn about voodoo and hoodoo through movies and TV shows, where it has gained the popularity it has today as a form of entertainment. Though unprecedented, the local Catholic priest let Marie practice Voodoo in the Catholic Church, and as a result, she became famous, leading (along with others) many in Louisiana to believe in Voodoo. Marie was a pacifist and known for healing people. Voodoo originally entered the United States via immigrants from Africa and Haiti such as Marie LaVeau, "the voodoo queen of New Orleans". Marie LaVeau, an American Voodoo priestess from the nineteenth century This spirit can speak for the gods or dead people you love, and can also help to heal or do magic. Having a spirit come into is wanted, and important.

In voodoo people often believe that a spirit is in their body and controlling the body. Drums are used to make most of this music. Voodoo often has rituals with music and dancing. The spirits of family members who have died are especially important. Both spirits of nature and of dead people are important. In voodoo many gods and spirits are prayed to or called on. The word vodún is the Fon-Ewe word for spirit. The roots of voodoo in the Americas come from the Fon, Ewe, and Yoruba people of Africa. Ancestors' 'spirits' are called upon for inspiration, protection or other influences over the material world. Animism includes belief in a person's spirit surviving the death of the body. That is, all aspects of the natural world are seen as having spiritual identity immune to physical death. Religion, on the other hand, is based on formal organization, myths and dogma in texts, buildings constructed for worship, and a hierarchy of ordained leaders. Voodoo has variations from tribe to tribe. It is a supernatural ancestral connection, passed from generation to generation by word of mouth ( oral tradition), rituals and spiritual practices. The word voodoo, which has many different names and spellings (like vodun, vodou, voudou, vudu, vodoun, vowdown, vooodooo, vundun) is the name of a West African animist, spiritual folkway.
