10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «OBEISM»
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obeism nella seguente selezione bibliografica. Libri associati con
obeism e piccoli estratti per contestualizzare il loro uso nella letteratura.
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Choice Notes from "Notes and Queries": Folk Lore
OBEISM. Can any of your readers give me some information about Obeism f I am
anxious to know whether it is in itself a religion, or merely a rite practised in some
religion in Africa, and imported thence to the West Indies (where, I am told, it is ...
503. Oats: “ Wild oats,” origin of the phrase, v. 227. 306. “ Ob. q.” meaning of this
abbreviation, v. 127. 188. Obeism, iii. 59. 149, 150. 309. 376; iv. 223. Obelisk
between Yarmouth and Gorleston, v. 78. Objective and subjective, v. 11. 42. 141;
ix.
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Jamaica: Its Past and Present State
OBEISM. 247 eluding the ceremony with dancing, singing, and vociferation,
regarding death as a welcome relief from the calamities of life, and a passport to
the never-to-be- forgotten scenes of their nativity. Not only were the negroes the ...
James Mursell Phillippo, 1843
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Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica
“Obeism is not itself a religion, except in the sense in which Burke says that '
superstition is the religion of feeble minds.' It is a belief, real or pretended, in the
efficacy of certain spells, and incantations, and is to the uneducated Negro what ...
Joseph John Williams, 1934
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The Negro at Home: An Inquiry After His Capacity for ...
OBEISM ! 43 of the whites. As a class, the blacks are indolent, improvident,
servile, and licentious." The religious disposition of these people tends
continually toward African superstition. Notwithstanding the pressure of
surrounding Christianity ...
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The Negro at Home: an Inquiry After His Capacity for ...
OBEISM ! 43 of the whites. As a class, the blacks are indolent, improvident,
servile, and licentious.” The religious disposition of these people tends
continually toward African superstition. Notwithstanding the pressure of
surrounding Christianity ...
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The buccaneer, sir Henry Morgan
He dared no longer practise either obeism or medical manslaughter in any of the
West India islands, at least in any of those belonging to the English. This, for the
present, gave him but little uneasiness, as he had made a very respectable ...
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Three Eyes for the Journey : African Dimensions of the ...
... it is said of poisons, and these practitioners were called Myal men 1843P/
1970P James Myalism and Fetishism were constitu- Resident of Jamaica
Phillippo ent parts of Obeism . . . Myalism is a secret fraternity whose rituals are
not (Spanish ...
Dianne M. Stewart Assistant Professor of Religion Emory University, 2005
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Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora
The Baptist missionary James Phillippo writing in 1843 confirms Long's ideas of
slave religion: Myalism, as well as Fetishism, were constituent parts of Obeism,
and included a mystery of iniquity which perhaps was never fully revealed to the
...
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Collection of African Religion Volume 2:
02. Jamaica. Witchcraft. Part1. IN Notes and Queries, London, January 25, 1851,
we find the following communication. "Can any of your readers give me some
information about obeism? I am anxiousto knowwhether itisin itself a religion, ...
