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obeah
Part of Speech: Noun
Results: 2
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- Also, Lemaire came from Martinique, which, after Haiti, is the headquarters of Obeah, and worse, of voodoo. - "Beggars on Horseback", F. Tennyson Jesse.
- Holding, as they did, in great dread all fetish, or obeah, practices; usually someone amongst them, more cunning than the rest, professed an acquaintance with the supposed diabolical ritual; and gained influence with, and extorted money from, his more timid comrades. - "The History of the First West India Regiment", A. B. Ellis.