How To Use Obeah In A Sentence
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Many Creoles and Garifuna believe in obeah, or witchcraft.
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This aunt was an Obeah witch, the duppy, or devil ghost, that was her familiar, appearing as a great black dog that she called Tiger.
Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate
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Cudjoe, reputed to be a powerful Obeah man; that is, a necromancer, or what the North American Indians would call a medicine-man.
The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley
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Although it has been illegal for a long time, obeah, the traditional witchcraft of the Caribbean, still exists.
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Together they unravel and expose the island's medicine woman who delves into the dark secrets of obeah, an ancient mystical practice similar to voodoo.
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You see somebody with a beautiful religious artifact, and you don't want to touch it - you're afraid of some obeah jumping out of it to get you.
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Parliament will be ensured, and the relapse into obeahism, devil - worship, and children-eating be inaugurated.
West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
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He was sometimes called upon by other missionaries to travel to distant places during a revival of obeah and myalism during the early 1840s.
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The other, myalism, was intended to counteract obeah.
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Some still fear the African-derived black magic called obeah that is common in the Caribbean region.
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The obeah woman gave her associate an igloo and told him to go and buy some bags of ice from a gas station in the next parish.
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Informal social control occurs through peer pressure, gossip, and fear of harmful magic known as obeah.
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They don't believe the Africans have a rite to their obeah and vodun, which if you look closely into them, are the basis for all religion, with me assuming original religion came out of Africa same as man.
Jumpin' Off a Riff, Part 2