obeah

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈobia/

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A form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean. / A magician or witch doctor of the magic craft.

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Many villagers avoided the old healer's hut because they believed an obeah had been practiced there.

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意味（1）

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.

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意味（2）

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.

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意味（3）

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.

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obeahs （ 複数形 ）