obeah / ˈoʊ bi ə /

📖毕业后词汇愚人节淫威淫秽物品淫秽

obeah 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a form of belief involving sorcery, practiced in parts of the West Indies, South America, the southern U.S., and Africa.
  2. a fetish or charm used in practicing obeah.

obeah 近义词

obeah

等同于 voodoo

更多obeah例句

  1. The same missionary told me that in Sierra Leone, also, Obeah and poisoning go hand in hand.
  2. But the pièce de résistance of the day was to be the examination and probable committal of the Obeah-man of those parts.
  3. That spirit belongs to the Obeah, or Fêtish-man; and he puts it, by magic ceremonies, into any object which he chooses.
  4. The ceiba is the sacred tree of the negro, the temple of Jumbi, the proper house of Obeah.
  5. The rumor got about that Maumee Niña had become an Obeah woman,—a voodoo worker, a witch.