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Macumba

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umbandanounAn Afro-Brazilian religion that blends elements of African religions with Catholicism.
quimbandanounAn Afro-Brazilian religion.
candomblénounA religion, practiced mostly in Brazil, that blends African and Roman Catholic elements.
maracatunounA Brazilian performance genre from Pernambuco involving parades and music.
afoxenoun(music) A genre of Afro-Brazilian music
capoeiranoun(uncountable) A martial art developed in Brazil, involving complex acrobatic maneuvers and flowing movements.
sambanoun(music) A Brazilian musical genre, to which the aforementioned dance is danced, which has its roots in West Africa via the slave trade.
maculelenounAn Afro-Brazilian dance and martial art in which a number of people gather in a circle and rhythmically strike sticks together to accompany singing.
manbonounAlternative form of mambo (“voodoo priestess”). [A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)]
mambonounA Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.
candombenoun(music) A musical style of Uruguay originating from African slaves.
kuminanounAn Afro-Jamaican religion involving music, dancing, and the practice of bringing down spirits of the dead to briefly inhabit the bodies of the faithful and share ancestral wisdom.
baiaonounA South American dance similar to a samba.
batucadanounA style of repetitive, fast-paced percussive samba.
bambuconoun(music) A traditional music genre from Colombia, formed in the 19th and 20th centuries as a blend of Basque folk music and the European waltz.
bloconounA type of Brazilian street carnival featuring traditional Brazilian music and dance such as samba and frevo, often with hundreds of thousands to millions of people in attendance.
marrabentanoun(music) A genre of popular Mozambican dance music.
kimbanguismnounA Congolese religion based on Christianity.
macahubanounArchaic form of macauba. [The palm tree Acrocomia aculeata.]
obeahnounA form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean.

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