Voodoo Pseudoscience questions? Can anyone help its pretty easy?

Ok Pseudoscience is the study of things that ain't real such as, mermaids, werewolves, big foot and so on. I am doing a report on Voodoo. So if you can help answer these: Why do people believe in this subject? What if any scientific evidence is there to support this topic? and last, what supportive evidence is missing? thanks a lot!

hate to brake it to you but whether Voodoo is real is an opinion and it not being real is not a fact, its an opinion.

Cryptozoology?
I've honestly never even heard of it.

Voodoun - aka Santeria - is a folk religion, a blend of Catholicism and indigenous east African magic practices.

It's a religion, not a pseudo science. It makes no claim to be scientific.

Also, you would do well to investigate it with some care - it is terribly real to the worshipers, and blundering around calling it names is kind of impolite.

There are scientific theories of magic. The best one is by Isaac Bonewits, done as his doctoral thesis I believe, and it is compelling. I suggest you look up his book, Real Magic, by Isaac Bonewits.

Peace.

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What do you mean by real? Reality is just in our minds

Voodoo relies on two very good strategies.
The first is a concoction of herbs and poisons applied in seemingly innocent ways dust blown in face, or put on something the person will touch(absorbed by skin).

Second the placebo effect, if you think something will happen it usually will.

There is also a very real pathway for magic and it takes a very experienced and knowledgeable person to perform it.

Our thoughts are electrical, our entire body works on electrical pulses. Our environment is a soup of impulses, those who are very practiced can manipulate the environment and peoples thoughts even around the world. There is a very real biological reason and possibility for magic.

Prayer is a form of this magic.

pseudo science is probably about some of the healing/ cursing techniques rather than the "umbrella term" Voodoo. Pseudoscience would be like the little electronic device the Scientologists use or quackery in other healing rituals.

If you can access Derren Brown clips in your country you MUST see this video...

Some people are susceptible to suggestions.

For every bit of nonsense in the world, there's people ready and willing to believe it. Voodoo has been around a long time - came with the Negro slaves into the Caribbean Islands. It probably wasn't originally a Negro religion - because I don't think it exists in Africa. But there are some of the same practices in Voodoo as in village religions in Africa. These African practices got all mixed up with Catholic practices.

So Voodoo has been around a long time - it's just an attempt to guide mother nature and get what you want - cast spells and all that sort of thing. And people become emotionally attached to their odd beliefs even when they know perfectly well they're nonsense.

I think my friend Hawk properly corrected you. If you've never explored magic, who are you to say that it is non existent?

Often, Pseudoscience is better defined as that for which there is no concrete explanation. (yet)

Hope that I can help you...well, the people doping these matter the voodoos and their ritual, simply because they don't believe in God. They know that themselves have a power to fight with spirits which is the bad or evil spirits. Some commit themselves to Satan or we may call that they are atheist.

Scientific evidences...well in my opinion it does not have any scientific evidence that I've known because it is a battle between evils.

1. Voodoo is a Religion.
2. Pseudoscience is what "proves" global warming.

1. It is a religion that mixes African rituals and the catholic beliefs. It was started in the south and in the Caribbean islands, by the slaves brought over from Africa.

#2.It biases its practice on superstition, witchcraft, shamanism and is mixed with idolatry. The evidence is in records of the spells and incarnation of spirits on people.

#3.Evidence missing is that it is no more then superstition, and controls by fear.

You really should read about for yourself. I made this comment last night and was in violation of Yahoo answers because I didn't want to do some kids work for them, but encouraged them to do it on their own. I hope this helps you.

Pseudo-science is more like the "magical" tradition of science that gave way to a more "modern" tradition of science that we have today:
(Astrology -> Astronomy), (Alchemy -> Chemistry), (Numerology -> Calculus)
- Voodoo would be more like Cosmo-biology - (combination of cosmology & biology, as bio-chemistry is bio and chem).

Science is objective (in the modern tradition). Pseudo-science is more subjective (magical tradition). There is "evidence". but it is not empirical, so it cannot be tested objectively. its evidence is experience-based, but not sense-experience based. Science exists to make predictions (like an eclipse). So does magic. One is better at it.