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	Obeah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Obeah is a term used in the West Indies to refer to folk magic or sorcery.
		Obeah is also related to anything dealing with blood, blood sacrificing etc. However unlike its Spanish and Brazilian counter-parts, the Spiritual Baptist religion does not.
		Obeah is practiced in the Bahamas and many Christians there include elements of obeah in their religion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Obeah (292 words)

	OBEAH: Afro-Caribbean Shamanism
		Obeah is potent, compelling and in the wrong hands, both deadly and dangerous.
		Obeah is close to witchcraft, but it also includes many elements easily recognizable as Shamanism.
		Obeah can be viewed as "a Tower of Power", an enormous vault of Intelligent-Power (similar in scope to Joriki in Japanese) that can be communicated with by the Obeah in special and secret ways.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/awakening101/obeah.html (3558 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - 'Dem obeah me!' - Wednesday \| July 28, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Obeah and myal have their roots in Africa and are widely practised in Jamaica, though banned in 1760.
		Obeah is primarily used to cause harm and is done out of malice, envy or 'bad mind'.
		The obeah man is often asked to 'put a blow' or 'work' on someone to make them ill, experience undue hardship, bad luck, become mentally ill or, in extreme cases, die.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20040728/health/health1.html (653 words)

	Obeah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	www.askporn.com /faq/obeah.html (1157 words)

	Obeah -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The word Obeah is also used in part, with any religious practicies such has (A person who adheres to Hinduism) Hindu puja and so.
		Obeah is also related to anything dealing with blood, blood sacrificing etc. However unlike its Spanish and Brazilian counter-parts, the (additional info and facts about Spiritual Baptist) Spiritual Baptist religion does not.
		Obeah is practiced in (additional info and facts about the Bahamas) the Bahamas and many (A religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination) Christians there include elements of obeah in their religion.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/ob/obeah.htm (122 words)

	Festival puts Toronto in a Caribbean daze - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Travel
		Obeah (Obeah is strong medicine practiced by Caribbean bush doctors) finds his groove, however, disaster strikes.
		Obeah crumples under the weight of his elaborate getup, and comes crashing to the ground.
		Obeah's best night, but his mishap last year only sharpened the sense of competition at the King and Queen Xtravaganza, a showcase event that kicks off the biggest annual celebration of Caribbean culture in North America, running this year July 28-Aug. 1.
	www.boston.com /travel/articles/2005/07/17/festival_puts_toronto_in_a_caribbean_daze (1205 words)

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		I've established key linkages between obeah and other Caribbean religious rituals and the electromagnetic convergences within Bermuda Triangle by tracking UFO reports throughout the region." "That is fascinating, just absolutely fascinating," Shore murmured.
		"Obeah is a folk religion of African origin practiced throughout much of Latin America," Alan Shore instructed the jury - an ethnically and economically eclectic group.
		Puffy was a member of your family, you accidentally said she was a 'familiar' - a common term for a witch's companion, usually an animal.
	www.virtualseasonx.com /vs11/vs11/Obeah.txt (5212 words)

	Within the Boneherds Cape
		Obeah is a concept that has fascinated many Seekers as they stroll on in the many gardens of knowledge and futility.
		Obeah is in a way eclectic, or rather its vastness allows it to be incorporated into and strengthen the work already being done by the witch or sorcerer.
		The Obeah learned in “The Cult of Obeah de Trinidad” is shamanic in nature and the impulses of medieval and renaissance magic is also to be found.
	www.geocities.com /veritas_de/obeah2.html (1803 words)

	Rendering the shadow – the vampirism of Wide Sargasso Sea
		Obeah is at once the shadow world where the living dead reside, and the practitioners in the art of controlling shadows.
		In the novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, the Obeah are represented by the servant woman, Christophine, who is present throughout the novel, gives Antoinette a potion to seduce Rochester, and becomes embroiled in his consciousness as an echo of his confused and differentiated rationality.
		Antoinette is not Obeah, but she is immersed in its power and she is sensitive to its movement: She is a puppet moved by vampirism.
	www.geocities.com /dracle99/writing/wss (1627 words)

	Obeah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Obeah is the local spiritual system that relies upon the use of herbs as well as sorcery and spells.
		Obeah reappears many times in the novel from the way that Mrs.
		Obeah is a powerful part of the native culture that remains, despite the cultural dominion of the British Empire.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/anniejohn/terms/theme_4.html (200 words)

	Obeah
		Obeah is a folk religion of African origin that uses the tradition of sorcery.
		Those who practice Obeah help people with problems concerning their work, romance, domestic life, and health, but they can also do harm to those who they want revenge on or is jealous of.
		In the Obeah religion the spiritual leader is called an Obeah man. He or she is the one that helps those who are said to be possessed by evil or cannot find a medical excuse for their illnesses.
	condor.admin.ccny.cuny.edu /~lm5786/obeah.htm (707 words)

	Chapter V: Development of Obeah in Jamaica
		Obeah and poison are deserving of a particular consideration, because they were: once seriously alleged by the Agent of Jamaica and other colonists, as great causes of the dreadful mortality which prevails among the slaves in our islands.
		"Obeah is an ignorant, superstitious foreigner, but owing to 'man's eternal sense of awe,' to the indestructible desire deep down in the breast of most human beings to connect themselves with the unseen world, and to that most powerful of all reasons, the thirst of revenge, it has not died out.
		Obeah may be defined in general to be a superstitious belief that certain men and women, known as Obeah men and Obeah women, can exercise certain preternatural power over places, persons and things and produce effects beyond the natural powers of man, by agencies other than divine.
	www.sacred-texts.com /afr/vao/vao07.htm (16786 words)

	Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica: CHAPTER III
		Obeah, as the continuation of Ashanti witchcraft, is professedly a projection of spiritual power with the harm of an individual as an objective.
		As a general rule such cases as are brought to trial under the Obeah Law, which does not distinguish between obeah and myalism, are usually instances of applied magic, and that too of the "white" variety.
		One of the features in many of these cases is that the practitioner of obeah is reported as "speaking in an unknown tongue," which is supposedly a regular characteristic of the practice.
	www.sacred-texts.com /afr/ppj/ppj003.htm (6095 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - What is obeah? - Tuesday \| June 7, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She related that while in England "things happen" that, in Jamaica, would have been attributed to obeah but was not so blamed in England.
		Another member related how a former co-worker believed in obeah and went as far as to bring the obeahman into the workplace to ensure her safety.
		The Europeans did not understand obeah and were afraid of the 'power' these obeahmen had over the enslaved Africans.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20050607/cleisure/cleisure2.html (751 words)

	Obeah
		Obeah is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		Obi is the West Indian God of Evil and an "obeah" man or woman is a type of sorcerer, proficient in Voodoo and other forms of magic.
		Obeah is a healer god, who can also be invoked to bring illness and other calamities to one's own enemy.
	www.experiencefestival.com /obeah (950 words)

	Obeah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Obeah is one of several cults that are merely religious systems with elaborate and complicated rituals, surpassing I would say in intricacy and symbolism most of the Oriental or European religious systems.
		OBEAH -- a religion probably of Ashanti origin; practiced among Negroes in British West Indies; characterized by the use of sorcery and magic rituals, often attended by grave or fatal consequences.
		Obeah doctors are adept in the use of poisonous herbs, ground glass and the like and in the production and fostering of fear,.
	www.davidson.cc.nc.us /mbranson/obeah.htm (2129 words)

	African Religions in Jamaica and Cuba
		At other times, Obeah was to be discovered, or a “shadow” was to be caught; a little coffin being prepared in which it was to be enclosed and buried.
		The obeah man was a private practitioner, hired by his client for a specific purpose, while the myal man was the leader of a cult group devoted to organized religious activity.
		Like the obeah man, he tried to control the supernatural world of the shadows, but protection from obeah was only incidental to his work.
	facweb.furman.edu /~dstanford/jc/africanreligions.htm (1678 words)

	Bahamian Legends
		Cat Island, a quaint and sparsely developed island, is said to be the center of the practice of obeah -- a Bahamian version of voodoo.
		Obeah, which slaves originally brought with them from Africa, is a type of folk religion that brings together bush medicine and witchcraft.
		Obeah is not spoken about openly by believers, but you might see evidence of it in people's yards.
	www.bahamasgateway.com /legends.htm (707 words)

	The Nassau Guardian - Tony Mckay The Obeah Man
		Exuma - "The Obeah Man" as he was known, or rather Tony McKay was a Bahamian entertainer whose work trancended across borders around the world.
		McKay said the Obeah Man was always a mystical serious person who wore colourful robes.
		His most known hits were, Exuma The Obeah Man, which went worldwide, Do Wah Nanny which was the largest selling album in Venezuela ever, Rude Boy, Brown Girl in The Ring, Crawfish Girl, and numerous others.
	www.thenassauguardian.com /social_community/346450188220829.php (627 words)

	Obeah Cards for VTES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Panacea Action Obeah x blood obeah: For each blood spent by the acting vampire, an ally gains 1 life towards their listed life total.
		Anaesthetic Touch Combat Obeah obeah: Strike: 0 damage, but the opposing minion does not untap during its next untap phase.
		OBEAH: For each blood spent by this reacting vampire, the acting minion's stealth is reduced by one.
	www.thelasombra.com /obeah.htm (498 words)

	Obeah Love Spells&Witch Love Spells—Get Immediate Results!
		Although African slaves usually practiced Obeah for "evil" or rather self-interested, instrumental purposes, this faith also aided them as a source of strength and clandestine resistance.
		The practice of Obeah is the belief that one can use certain spirits or supernatural agents to work harm to the living, or to call them off from such mischief.
		However once you get an understanding of Obeah you will know that there is nothing to be scared or worried about.
	www.witch-lovespells.com /faq.html (276 words)

	The Caribbean Planet
		Obeah men or women were often individuals with powerful personalities and with a desire to dominate, who used a paraphernalia of materials for the purpose of harming others e.g.
		In Guyana legal history, many murder cases involving obeah have been tried to the amazement and terror of a partly superstitious populace.
		In the course of her life since she had been dragged back to communing with the spirits, May vacillated between seeing herself as cursed and as blessed.
	www.thecaribbeanplanet.com /folklore.html (1587 words)

	OBEAH
		Obeah spells are too powerful to waste on trivial pursuits!
		Obeah is used when you don't know where to turn, when all other methods have been exhausted.
		Jeannie Hydie, a Missouri resident, says things were going slow for her when she requested an Obeah Spell.
	www.calastrology.com /obeah.html (484 words)

	Dominica's Heritage & Culture: Obeah
		It varies greatly in kind, requirements, and practice, ranging from the simple, such as the use of items like oils, herbs, bones, grave-dirt, blessed communion wafers and fresh animal blood to more extreme ingredients.
		Obeah men or Obeah women are names given to its practitioners.
		The term Pyai, from the Carib for shaman is also used in Dominica relating to the casting of spells.
	www.avirtualdominica.com /heritage.cfm?Id=146 (151 words)

	Bahamas murder suspect believed it was 'obeah' - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		The killings occurred on Cat Island, one of some 700 islands in the Bahamas chain and a center for Obeah, an African religion combining bush medicine and sorcery.
		He allegedly told police the killings were in retaliation for an Obeah curse he believed the two victims had put on him, according to a police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity yesterday.
		Victor Hoyte, 28, was with his girlfriend late Tuesday when he answered a knock on his door, his girlfriend told police.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20041021T210000-0500_68044_OBS_BAHAMAS_MURDER_SUSPECT_BELIEVED_IT_WAS__OBEAH_.asp (270 words)

	Guyana Obeah and Amerindian Practices - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		A number of folk beliefs continue to be practiced in Guyana.
		Obeah, a folk religion of African origin, incorporates beliefs and practices of all the immigrant groups.
		Obeah practitioners may be Afro-Guyanese or Indo-Guyanese, and members of all the ethnic groups consult them for help with problems concerning health, work, domestic life, and romance.
	www.photius.com /countries/guyana/society/guyana_society_obeah_and_amerindian~305.html (207 words)

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	Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine: Shango, Shouter & Obeah: Supernatural Calypso From Trinidad 1934-1940. - sound ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shango, Shouter & Obeah: Supernatural Calypso From Trinidad 1934-1940.
		For anyone familiar with or interested in the "Santeria" (Regla de Ocha) songs of Cuba, or interested in the real "melting pot": African cultures outside the Motherland, this CD is a must.
		Broken into three sections: Shango, Obeah and Shouter, we get an insider's peek into three African American religions, before the oil boom of World War II (and the invention of the steel pan) changed the island, and world music, forever.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1197/is_1_46/ai_84841138 (287 words)

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