10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OBIISM»
Discover the use of
obiism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
obiism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Furthermore, obiism and conjure on the one hand, and vaudoux and voodoo on
the other, are two distinct conceptions. The first is African witchcraft as actually
practised by negroes the world over. The second is the French conception of ...
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Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica
Note:—This letter of James Platt drew forth the following reply from James
Hooper of Harwich in Notes and Queries for July 29, 1899: “If the Reverend H.
Goldie's etymology as quoted by Mr. Platt, is correct, Dr. Brewer's account of
obiism, ...
Joseph John Williams, 1934
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Collection of African Religion Volume 2:
47. Note:This letter of James Plattdrew forth the followingreply from James
Hooper of Harwich in Notes andQueries for July 29, 1899: "If the Reverend H.
Goldie's etymology as quoted byMr. Platt, is correct,Dr. Brewer's account of
obiism,as he ...
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The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects ...
But that which is more likely to brush away the rite of Obiism and other "
heathenish devices" is, the disappearance of the old African negroes, who
imported and pursued these superstitions of their country. The decline may with
more ...
Mos-r readers have, perhaps, seen accounts of the African rite of Obiism. In a
recent work we find it stated that since the abolition of slavery in the West Indies,
the spread of education and Christianity, it is believed that the practice has gone
out ...
This superstition, called " Obiism," is quite common in the outer islands. It is
believed by the negroes that if any one but the rightful owners should eat the fruit
from a tree on which this spell has been placed, he will swell up and burst. We
were ...
George Burbank Shattuck, 1905
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Curiosities of Medical Experience
We still find necklaces of this substance suspended by fond mothers and nurses
round the necks of infants. In the West Indies these chaplets are worn by the
negroes as a magic protection against Obiism, and they even affirm that the
colour of ...
John Gideon Millingen, 1839
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Roget's Thesaurus of English words & phrases: classified & ...
... 82 - the helm 705 obfuscate dark 421 opaque 426 obfuscated drunk 959 obi
992 obiism 992 obit death 360 interment 363 post - 360, 363 obiter dictum
irrelevant 10 occasion 134 interjacent 228 obituary di . i;// 360 biography 594
object шв0 ...
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Collection Of Famous Author "Bram Stoker":
Obiism andFantee ism havebeen exercisedinmy own presence,andtheir results
proved by the evidence ofmyown eyes and other senses. So, too, have stranger
rites, with the same object and the same success, in the far Pacific Islands. So,
too ...
... diablerie [Fr.], bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism,
feticism†; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism†; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism (
Esquimaux), vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment,
mysticism, ...
