A loa is a powerful spirit or deity in the voodooreligion. Voodoo believers assign them quite active roles in everyday life, and ascribe them great powers of possession.
... of saints (i. 13, ii. 9, iii. 6,
59). In other works, however, Thomas à Kempis
exalts Mary as the queen of heaven, the efficient
mediatress of sinners, and to her all ...