Voodoo Shot

Rum and coffee liqueur — named for Haitian Vodou, the West African–Catholic tradition, drawing on Haiti's dual legacies of rum and coffee before the 1791 revolution.

The Voodoo Shot draws on the spiritual and cultural tradition of Haitian Vodou, a syncretic religion that originated among enslaved Africans in the French colony of Saint-Domingue during the 17th and 18th centuries. Vodou combined elements of West African religious practices — particularly from the Fon and Ewe peoples of Dahomey, modern Benin and Togo — with Roman Catholicism, producing a distinctive faith centered on the lwa who mediate between the divine and human worlds. Rum's deep roots in Caribbean and particularly Haitian culture — where sugarcane cultivation and rum production defined the colonial economy — make it the natural spirit for this mystically named drink. Coffee is also deeply connected to Haitian culture, as the country was among the world's leading coffee producers before the 1791 revolution. The Voodoo Shot typically combines rum with coffee liqueur, playing on this Caribbean connection.