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obeah

Noun

o=be=ah

WORDNET DICTIONARY

obeah(n = noun.group) obi - (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery; Array

is a kind of cult

obeah(n = noun.cognition) obi - a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas; Array

is a kind of cult, cultus, religious cult

obeah, n.

Same as Obi. B. Edwards. [1913 Webster]

obeah, n. (also obi) a kind of sorcery practised esp. in the West Indies.

Etymology

W. Afr.

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