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Obeah

obeah

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

obeah a kind of sorcery practised especially in the Caribbean. Recorded from the mid 18th century, the word comes from Twi, from bayi ‘sorcery’.
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