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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈəʊbɪə/Part of speech nounSorted abehoStarts with OEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A West Indian spiritual and folk-magic tradition with West African roots.

Word origin

Uncertain; apparently from a Caribbean creole, probably ultimately from a West African language. The Oxford English Dictionary points to Igbo abià (“knowledge, wisdom”), obìa (“doctor, healer”). Cognate of Aukan obiya, Saramaccan obia, and Sranan Tongo obia.

Used in a sentence

  • […] but he went down to death, with dusky dreams of African shadow-catchers and Obeahs hunting him.
  • A Jamaican Christian came to me for counseling. […] I asked him if he had been charmed as a child by an Obeah. Obeahs are the magicians of the Carribean^([sic]) islands.
  • Although Adair suspected that obeahs often employed poisons, he emphasized that the diseases induced by obeahs resulted from "depraved imagination, or a powerful excitement or depression of the mental faculties."

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