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• Obeah People

  [from purportedly widespread practice of OBEAH there] n. nickname for people from Cat Island. (Black)
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• Obeah man

  [Car.; cf. OBEAH ] n. a practitioner of witchcraft: 1888 "Obeah-men". . are a species of African magicians, who, for a
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• Obeah bush

  [from use as an antidote to obeah; cf. similar use of garlic in Europe] n. a plant, Petereria alliacea: 1920
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• obeah

  obia /ówbiya/ [Pan-Creole; cf. LA Fr. obiah sortilège (Jourdain 1956:297), Cuban Sp. obi brujo (Ortiz 1924:384); cf. Efik ubio a
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• oars

  /owz/ [from the plural] n. sing, or pl. an oar at the stern of a small boat for sculling. =
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