🔄 Synonyms of "Obeah"
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| Word | Definition |
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| obinoun | A sash worn with a kimono. |
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| Word | Definition |
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| obinoun | A sash worn with a kimono. |
| voodoonoun | Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana. |
| voodooismnoun | (uncountable) A religious cult, from Haiti, involving witchcraft and sorcery. |
| sorcerynoun | Magical power; the use of witchcraft or magic arts. |
| goozoonoun | (Jamaica) obeah, folk magic |
| pocomanianoun | A form of Jamaican folk religion that combines revivalism with African elements such as spirit possession |
| balmyardnoun | (Jamaica) A place where obeah and related healing rituals are performed. |
| orpekonoun | (East Africa) A form of spirit possession or spiritual sickness among Maasai people, especially women. |
| macumbanoun | (religion) A type of Afro-Brazilian folk religion combining elements of Roman Catholicism with traditional African religious beliefs and practices; or a specific cult or ceremony of such religion. |
| mundunugunoun | An African witch doctor. |
| africanjujuismnoun | (fantasy) An Afrocentric subgenre of fantasy fiction that draws on African spiritualities and cosmologies. |
| bomohnoun | A Malay shaman or witch doctor. |
| perogunnoun | (Caribbean) A kind of shrine to the orishas. |
| pukkumeriannoun | (Jamaica) A practitioner of pocomania. |
| myalismnoun | (Jamaica, historical) A syncretic set of religious practices among Jamaican slaves, having African and Christian elements. |
| jujunoun | (informal) The (usually negative) karmic consequences of an action or behavior. |
| mentonoun | a folk music genre of Jamaica, featuring acoustic instruments and voices. |
| cohobanoun | A hallucinogenic drug derived from ground seeds of trees of the genus Anadenanthera. |
| balm yardnoun | Alternative spelling of balmyard. [(Jamaica) A place where obeah and related healing rituals are performed.] |
| mambonoun | A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre. |
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