Vaudun

"I do not deal in vaudun."
She laughed at that. "You raise the dead, the zombie, and you do not deal in vaudun. Oh chica, that is funny." Her voice sparkled with genuine amusement.
So glad I could make her day.

(The Laughing Corpse, page 40, paragraph 3)
Commentary * Vaudun or voodoo, is the practice of true necromancy. Necromancers can raise the dead and control all manner of dead. Because they have an affinity for the dead, if they are made into human servants, they would have ultimate power over all vampires, since none of the tricks would work on them anymore. There are several terms associated with vaudun itself.

* The White Goat: Euphemism for human sacrifice

* Bokor: Priest of Vaudun (?)

* Bokar: Priestess of Vaudun (?)

* Verve: Symbols of power, drawn on the floor, for the purpose of summoning Lao

* Loa: Gods of Vaudun

* Gris-gris: A charm made to do a specific task. There is a thing that must be done to it in order to keep its power, and there is a thing that must never be done to it, lest the power is lost.
(ex: Zachary had a gris-gris made that kept him as a living and thinking zombie. He had to feed it vampire blood. But once human blood was applied, it lost its power.) Also, certain gris-gris will acknowledge their maker, especially if power was forged into the item by "slicing" a piece of their soul into it.

* Humfo (hougun): Place where once practices voodoo and stores up one's power. Inner sanctum.

* When Anita uses her necromancy powers, they feel like a cool wind which emanates from her body. It's as if all her nerve endings are opened and exposed naked to the wind. She creates a circle of wind that can sift through the dead bodies is the ground and sense them. Combining her powers with Larry, however, doesn't double the circle, but quadruples it.