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What (who) is obeah - definition
Obeah
·noun ·same·as Obi.
II. Obeah ·adj Of or pertaining to obi; as, the obeah man.
obeah
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(also obi '??bi)
¦ noun a kind of sorcery practised especially in the Caribbean.
Origin
Akan, from bayi 'sorcery'.
Obeah
Obayi, better known as Obeah, is an ancestrally inherited tradition of Akan witches of Ghana, Ivory Coast, and their descendants throughout the African diaspora in the Caribbean & South America. The ancestral inheritors of the tradition are referred to as "obayifo" (Akan witches) and its priests as "bayi komfo" and "bonsam komfo", which translates to "obeah priest/priestess".
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Obeah
Obayi, better known as Obeah, is an ancestrally inherited tradition of Akan witches of Ghana, Ivory Coast, and their descendants throughout the African diaspora in the Caribbean & South America. The ancestral inheritors of the tradition are referred to as "obayifo" (Akan witches) and its priests as "bayi komfo" and "bonsam komfo", which translates to "obeah priest/priestess".
