Concept cluster: History > Afro-spiritual traditions
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Alternative form of albularyo [A Filipino faith healer or witch doctor.]
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A Filipino faith healer or witch doctor.
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A mythical aquatic creature (cryptid) supposed to inhabit the Altamaha River and connected streams and marshes in Georgia in the United States (either considered one specific creature, or a species).
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An art form based on Mexican bark painting from the Otomi culture.
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A male member of the Amish.
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A voodoo sanctuary or sacred chamber.
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(voodoo) An evil spirit in Haitian belief, often in the form of an animal.
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A specific domesticated breed of donkey from the Balkans.
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(Philippines) black magic; sorcery
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A female folk-medicine healer
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(Australia) Alternative form of blackfellow [(Australia, now usually considered offensive) A (male) Australian Aborigine.]
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(voodoo) A voodoo practitioner who deals with malefic as well as beneficial effects; a sorcerer.
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A Malay shaman or witch doctor.
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God, as worshipped in Haitian voodoo.
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Alternative form of bocor [(voodoo) A voodoo practitioner who deals with malefic as well as beneficial effects; a sorcerer.]
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(Scotland) smallholder
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Alternative form of dadny [(India, historical) An advance paid to a craftsman, a weaver, etc. by a trader in the goods produced.]
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A chamber used for initiation rituals in voodoo.
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In Haitian voodoo, a class of loa generally associated with death.
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(now rare, chiefly Scotland) A familiar appellation of civility for a man.
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(Jamaica) obeah, folk magic
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A sacred urn or pitcher in Haitian voodoo, used to hold the spirit of an ancestor.
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In voodoo, one of the dualistic aspects of the soul, responsible for basic biological functions such as blood flow and breathing.
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Resembling or characteristic of a gypsy.
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Obsolete, now-non-standard hiragana.
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(uncountable) A set of spiritual practices and traditions created and concealed from slave-owners by enslaved Africans in North America, based on traditional African beliefs.
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A voodoo temple.
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A (male) voodoo priest.
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(voodoo) The leader of singing in a voodoo ceremony.
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A voodoo initiate; a helper for a houngan or mambo.
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Alternative spelling of juju [(countable) A fetish or charm believed by West Africans to have magical or supernatural powers.]
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(countable) A fetish or charm believed by West Africans to have magical or supernatural powers.
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The practice of juju.
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A practitioner of juju magic.
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(India) An inhabitant of the jungle or wild forest.
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The Devil of the Palo Mayombe religion.
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(South Africa, obsolete, offensive) Synonym of witch doctor
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The writing of a non-Japanese word in katakana
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(voodoo) A sacred or incantatory language used in Haitian voodoo rituals.
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The practice, in Mauritania, of forcibly fattening young girls in preparation for marriage
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A Balinese witch or practitioner of black magic.
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In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
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A voodoo priestess.
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A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
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(Ireland) A little man.
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(Scotland, slang) A policeman.
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(voodoo) The loa with whom a Vodouisant has a particular connection, and with whom they specially identify.
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(Southern Africa) A magician, witch, wizard, or other magic-user, especially in traditional tribal society.
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The soul of a victim of a tsantsa, often regarded as vengeful.
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(Ireland) A person who lives in a Gaeltacht area of Ireland.
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In Haitian voodoo, a class of loa of Yoruba origin.
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(voodoo) A particular family or group of loa (voodoo spirits).
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A magician or witch doctor of the magic craft.
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One who practices voodoo.
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A male practitioner of obeah.
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Alternative form of obeah [A form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean.]
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Alternative form of ovoo (“Mongolian cairn”) [A shamanistic cairn found in Mongolia, usually made from rocks or wood and found on or around mountains.]
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(historical) The narrow strait between the island of Singapore and the mainland.
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A voodoo talisman that houses a spirit.
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Alternative form of houngan [A (male) voodoo priest.]
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A male voodoo priest.
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In Haitian voodoo, a class of loa of uncertain origin, chiefly associated with fierceness or aggression.
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(voodoo) Alternative spelling of Petro [In Haitian voodoo, a class of loa of uncertain origin, chiefly associated with fierceness or aggression.]
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Alternative form of pocomania [A form of Jamaican folk religion that combines revivalism with African elements such as spirit possession]
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(countable) A female vampiric ghost in Malaysian and Indonesian mythology, said to be the spirit of a woman who died while pregnant.
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A sacramental post or pillar in the middle of the peristyle in front of a voodoo temple, used as the focus of certain rituals.
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(Japan) A place believed to contain sacred power.
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In Haitian voodoo, a class of loa of Dahomeyan origin, chiefly associated with warmth and benevolence.
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A religion that emerged in Jamaica in the 1930s out of biblical prophecy and rising black aspirations.
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(historical) A foreign exchange certificate issued to visitors to North Korea from socialist countries.
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(Jamaica) A mythical figure in Jamaican folklore, said to protect bodies of water and the people who pay her tribute. River Mumma is an African retention in the vein of protective water spirits like Mami Wata or the Orisha Yemoja. When it comes to crossing a river she inhabits, she allows those with good intentions to cross her waters; the others either turn back or drown.
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The Saint Patrick's Cross, the pre 1922 flag of Ireland.
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(South Africa and other parts of Southern Africa) A (usually female) traditional healer or herbalist, or witch doctor.
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(Scotland) prophet; diviner
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Synonym of Baroque (“chess variant”)
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(South Africa) teacher, priest, or missionary
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Obsolete form of voodoo. [Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.]
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(obsolete, in the plural) Galligaskins.
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Synonym of Vergina sun
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Alternative spelling of fersommling. [An event where Pennsylvania German language and culture is celebrated.]
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(voodoo) Any of various symbols, like line diagrams, that have religious significance in voodoo, serving as a representation of the loa.
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Alternative form of veve (“voodoo symbol”) [(voodoo) Any of various symbols, like line diagrams, that have religious significance in voodoo, serving as a representation of the loa.]
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Alternative form of voodoo (religion) [Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.]
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A practitioner of voodoo.
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Alternative form of voodooist [A practitioner or student of voodoo.]
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Alternative spelling of voodoo [Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.]
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Alternative form of voodooist [A practitioner or student of voodoo.]
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Alternative form of voodoo [Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.]
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The spiritual beliefs of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin and in the south of Togo.
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A poppet; a doll made to resemble a person in order to cast spells on them or to galvanize some change in them by modifying the doll, often by inserting pins and needles or by binding it.
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(countable) Any voodoo practice.
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Alternative form of voodooism [(uncountable) A religious cult, from Haiti, involving witchcraft and sorcery.]
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Alternative form of voodoo [Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.]
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Alternative form of voodoo (religion) [Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.]
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Alternative spelling of voodoo [Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.]
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Alternative form of veve (“voodoo symbol”) [(voodoo) Any of various symbols, like line diagrams, that have religious significance in voodoo, serving as a representation of the loa.]
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(by extension) Any prophetess, sooth-sayer, or witch.
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(voodoo) A magic spell or charm.
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(folklore) In Native American folklore, a personal guardian spirit in the form of an animal or bird.
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Alternative letter-case form of zalgo [(Internet slang) Text that appears corrupted or creepy due to the deliberate overuse of diacritics.]
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An official in charge of water supplies in Latin America.
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A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.

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