| 单词 | obeah |
| 例句 | Thus, there gathered a loud convocation of such of our number as claim familiarity with appropriate rites of burial—a meeting of palaver-men, Christian New Lights, obeah priests, and new-made cunning-workers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Butterflies are a relatively harmless vice, but giant moths are like heroin: “The moth eater is always moved to begin again,” an obeah woman tells Xavier. Review | ‘Popisho’ imagines a magical realm teeming with memorable characters 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z The magical systems evoked in much of this folklore, like obeah, have their roots in African religious and spiritual practices. How Black Horror Became America’s Most Powerful Cinematic Genre 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z He studied anthropology at Harvard University and published several papers on Afro-Jamaican folklore and obeah, a spiritual practice combining Christian and African rituals. Edward Seaga, Jamaican prime minister who charted conservative path, dies at 89 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Scotch witches had modes of working destruction to the persons or property of those to whom they meant evil, which were strikingly like the negro obeah or mandinga. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages It also corresponds with the obeah of the West Indies, the ubio of the Efik race, a charm put into the ground to hurt or kill. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Your obeah charlatans are grovelling in their cellars. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories Stern saw--and rejoiced in the sight--that the obeah's jaw hung surely broken, all awry. Darkness and Dawn The negroes practising obeah are acquainted with some very powerful vegetable poisons, which they use on these occasions, and by which they acquire much extensive credit. Thaumaturgia He seemed to see again the obeah, as that monster advanced upon the girl, clutching, supremely hideous. Darkness and Dawn By the glare Allan noticed that the man's jaw hung oddly awry, even as the obeah's had hung, in Madison Forest. Darkness and Dawn Up he brought the automatic, till the bead lay fair upon the naked, muscular breast of the obeah. Darkness and Dawn There, through the fleshy part of his forearm, thrust clean from side to side by a lightning-swift stroke, he saw the obeah's spear! Darkness and Dawn But the obeah, with a whining plaint, spat away his tobacco-leaf. Darkness and Dawn Stern found himself, with a strange, taut eagerness tingling all through him, facing the obeah and--and not daring to turn his back. Darkness and Dawn Stern saw a little round bluish hole take shape in the obeah's ear, and red drops start. Darkness and Dawn Then Stern saw the obeah, his jaw hanging oddly awry, all loose and shattered, fall headlong in the path. Darkness and Dawn And with a formless roar of killing-rage, Stern swung on the obeah, with the rifle. Darkness and Dawn Yet the warning echoed loudly through Madison Forest; and the obeah hesitated. Darkness and Dawn But already, with a chattering howl, the obeah was running forward. Darkness and Dawn For with a cry, a hoarse and frightful yell of passion, the obeah leaped--leaped like a huge and frightfully agile ape--leaped the whole distance intervening. Darkness and Dawn They had seen blood--had heard the obeah's cry; they knew! Darkness and Dawn There, already recovered from the blow which would have killed a man ten times over, he saw the obeah snarling after him. Darkness and Dawn |
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