Obeah
Example Sentences
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The magical systems evoked in much of this folklore, like obeah, have their roots in African religious and spiritual practices.
From New York Times
He studied anthropology at Harvard University and published several papers on Afro-Jamaican folklore and obeah, a spiritual practice combining Christian and African rituals.
From Washington Post
Thus, there gathered a loud convocation of such of our number as claim familiarity with appropriate rites of burial—a meeting of palaver-men, Christian New Lights, obeah priests, and new-made cunning-workers.
From Literature
Stern found himself, with a strange, taut eagerness tingling all through him, facing the obeah and--and not daring to turn his back.
From Project Gutenberg
Yet the warning echoed loudly through Madison Forest; and the obeah hesitated.
From Project Gutenberg
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