10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MYALIST»
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JSL Companion: Applications of the JMP Scripting Language
myFList I Remove( myDList, {1, 3, 5} ); //{10, I2, 3} myAList I {1, 2, 3}; Insert Into(
myAList, 10, 2 ); //{1, IO, 2, 3} Insert Into( myAList, {15, 22} ); //{1, IO, 2, 3, I5, 22}
XX I {-2, -1}; Insert Into( myAList, xx, 1 ); //{-2, -1, 1, IO, 2, 3, I5, 22 } myAList I {-2, -1
, 1, ...
Theresa L. Utlaut, Georgia Z. Morgan, Kevin C. Anderson, 2011
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Three Eyes for the Journey : African Dimensions of the ...
Although I have not uncovered any conclusive evidence that the Native Baptist (
Christian Myalist) religion included practices of ancestral veneration, food
offerings and animal sacrifice, and herbalism and divination, it is probable that at
least ...
Dianne M. Stewart Assistant Professor of Religion Emory University, 2005
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Reading Erna Brodber: Uniting the Black Diaspora Through ...
Mass Cyrus [Percy the Chick, myalist healer, speaks],-I had said,-no one knows
the stars better than you We 'll send them back to their tacky old ships-we had
said. But they had come [reenactment of the captivity and enslavement). Andjust
...
4
Obeah, Christ, and Rastaman: Jamaica and Its Religion
As these myalist revivals continued, the individuals involved took on a prophetic
function and claimed to have visions; the myal people became 'angel men'. They
declared that Christ was coming and that the end of the world was at hand; ...
5
The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, ...
... bildungsroman, agency in Myal is made possible less by individual will than by
collective ministration. It is less Ella's will, choices, or even consciousness that
drive the narrative than those of the myalist spirits supported by a community ...
6
Familiar Letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky: Describing a ...
The said matter turned out to be the trial of a " myalist," or "black doctor," one of
those persons who hold communion, as is imagined, with departed spirits, and
practice medicine, under their direction, for the cure of the living — the diseases ...
Joseph John Gurney, Henry Clay, 1840
7
Caribbean Religious History: An Introduction
The combination of lowpaying work on the sugar estates, the difficulty of eking
out a living on marginal lands, and inauspicious droughts activated the Myalist
sense of afflictions as resulting from malicious activities of humans and/or ...
Ennis B. Edmonds, Michelle A. Gonzalez, 2010
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The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples
Together, this Euro-Christian revival and the ongoing myalist revival generated a
new Afro-Protestant religion, called “Revival ... faith with myalist beliefs and
incorporated more elements of Baptist Christianity in opposition to obeah as
sorcery.
Stephan Palmié, Francisco A. Scarano, 2013
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Voodoos and Obeahs: Phases of West India Witchcraft
And it cannot be surprising if occasionally the practitioner of Obeah, perhaps for
self-protection, assumed the rôle of Myalist, and "dug up" perhaps the Obeah that
he himself had planted. In public, too, he might became a Myalist Doctor, while ...
Joseph John Williams, 1933
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Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica
As a consequence, there was no abatement in the general fear and terror in
which it was held by Negroes without exception. And it cannot be surprising if
occasionally the practitioner of obeah, for self-protection, assumed the rôle of
myalist, ...
Joseph John Williams, 1934
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The evolution of Myalism – Part 3
"The Myalist then, might be seen as the restorer of order to both the individual and the community." To rid the community of obeah charms and ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Jun 15»
