obeah

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean.

   “Although lacking a self-perpetuating institutional structure, Obeah was a crucial element of Afro-Caribbean religions everywhere from Suriname's Maroon societies (communities of runaway slaves) to the Leeward Islands' slave societies.”

2. isim A magician or witch doctor of the magic craft.

   “[…] but he went down to death, with dusky dreams of African shadow-catchers and Obeahs hunting him.”

3. isim A spell performed in the practice of the magic craft; an item associated with such a spell.

   “Mr. M. J. Walhouse then read a paper on "Some Indian Obeahs", and exhibited some photos of Kurumbars, and a piece of the bone of an elk and an iron cock's spur, with which a man had been murdered, both of which had been regarded as Obeahs.”

4. fiil To bewitch using this kind of folk magic.

   “A poor old woman who thinks she has been Obeahed lies ill in an isolated hut on the short cut to New Castle. I discovered her while out shooting, and promised to send her medical aid. Her case is pressing.”