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Obeah   Listen
noun
Obeah  n.  Same as Obi.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Obeah" Quotes from Famous Books



... you with a horse-hair pie! Your obeah charlatans are grovelling in their cellars. Only our courage and our two hands can save us to-day. Come! (Beating the floor with her crutch.) A hundred man slaves on the estate, and not one to help us save the house! ...
— The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories • Gertrude Atherton

... Kahunaism, in the devil and animal ghost worship of the black races, completely exemplified in the arts of the Fetich wizard on the Congo; in the "Uchawi" of the Wasequhha mentioned by Stanley; in the marriage customs of the Soudan devil worshipers; in the practices of the Obeah men and women in the Caribbees—notably their power in matters of love and business, religion and war—in Jamaica; in the incantations of the kahuna in Hawaii; and in the devices of the voodoo or conjure ...
— The Witchcraft Delusion In Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) • John M. Taylor



Words linked to "Obeah" :   West Indies, cultus, obi, the Indies, religious cult



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