| 单词 | grigri |
| 例句 | Thus, in a Louisiana Creole song, we find a quadroon mother promising her daughter a charm to prevent the white lover from forsaking her: "Pou tchomb� li na f� grigri." Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z They do not profess Mohammedanism and have implicit confidence in their "grigris." Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century According to Mungo Park, the natives of all portions of the Dark Continent are accustomed to wear written charms, called saphies, grigris, or fetiches, whose chief use is the warding-off or cure of disease. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery The amulets or charms, called "grigris" by the African priests, are of similar 170description. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing An essential article, hung round the neck or slung to the body, is the grigri, ta'awíz, or talisman, a Koranic verse or a magic diagram enclosed in a leathern roll or in a flat square. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I The word grigri, also of African origin, simply refers to a charm, which may be used for an innocent or innocuous purpose. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z All the rest of the crew were negroes, hypocritically denominated Government prisoners, whose whole costume, as a rule, consisted of a monkey-skin cap and a string of grigris, or charms, round their waists. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville "We shall make a grigri to keep him." Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z |
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