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What (who) is myalism - definition
myalism
AFRO-JAMAICAN RELIGION
Pocomania; Revival Zion; Myalism
['m???l?z(?)m]
¦ noun a Jamaican folk religion focused on the power of ancestors, typically involving drumming, dancing, spirit possession, ritual sacrifice, and herbalism.
Origin
C19: from myal, in the same sense (perh. from Hausa mayl 'sorcerer'), + -ism.
Myal
AFRO-JAMAICAN RELIGION
Pocomania; Revival Zion; Myalism
Myal is an Afro-Jamaican spirituality. It developed via the creolization of African religions during the slave era in Jamaica.
Pocomania
AFRO-JAMAICAN RELIGION
Pocomania; Revival Zion; Myalism
[?p??k?(?)'me?n??]
¦ noun a Jamaican folk religion combining revivalism with ancestor worship and spirit possession.
Origin
1930s: prob. a Hispanicized form of a local word, the second element being interpreted as -mania.
