Use "obeah" in a sentence

1. She spent the next two hours online, jumping from site to site, reading about Obeah

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2. It was a little like voodoo, except that while Obeah people used oils and herbs and communed with spirits, voodoo practitioners had their deities and their sacrifices

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3. Yet of the two, Obeah was supposed to be the more powerful

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4. Probably because Obeah men had a powerful influence over slaves, and they would give slaves spells to work on their masters

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5. Laws had been created to stop the practice, and even though nowadays it was still illegal in Jamaica, Obeah was still very popular, especially among rural folks

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6. “Then when I told Aunt Beryl about it, she told me all about the curse that an Obeah woman had put on us years ago

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7. I saw the Obeah woman myself

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8. How could you convince someone that their life was in danger, that an Obeah woman’s curse was supposed to send them hurtling off a cliff in less than six weeks, when you didn’t have a pinch of evidence to back up your claim? When their life was on the upswing, while yours was speeding steadily towards the ground? After one week of being in New York, Manda was at a loss

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9. She wanted to see what books she could find on Obeah, and possibly pass by Noah’s reading for a bit

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10. What was she so afraid of? Why should she leave? Why should she let Noah Kato intimidate her? She would just go in, pass by the reading for a moment, and then find books on the occult, or religion or whatever Obeah was considered, and head straight for the registers

11. If the captains of the Titanic had taken Obeah seriously, the ship would never have sunk

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12. Obeah: Mystery and Magic

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13. She ended with what Aunt Beryl had said about the curse put on them by Dar, the Obeah woman, all those years ago

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14. “Some of those Obeah people are wickeder than the devil himself

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15. Once, when she mentioned to Daniel about Aunt Beryl’s refusal to use her own front door, and that she had been looking for an Obeah person to put a protection spell over it, Daniel had accused her aunt of playing with fire

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16. He said Obeah was evil and unbiblical, just another form of black magic, and people would do best to stay away from it altogether

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17. She called Angie at her restaurant and told her she wanted to go see the Obeah man as soon as possible

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18. A man insisted Obeah was a religion and should be respected like all other religions, and Sierra told him Sistah Britain was a goddess and should be respected too

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19. ” Before she hung up, she gave Manda the address and directions to the Obeah man’s house

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20. It wasn’t long before she was receiving letters from listeners who were angry about her attacks on Obeah

21. Manda begged her to stop goading Obeah followers, but Nik believed the controversy was good for the show, and he urged Sierra to milk it for all it was worth

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22. At least two of her nightmares had been about Obeah men

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23. The Obeah man lived in a house in Bedford Stuyvesant that was painted white on the outside

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24. “I can sense her,” the Obeah man said, nodding

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25. Manda told him all about Dar, how the Obeah woman had put a curse over her and Sierra, and about what had happened on the eve of her wedding, ending with the vision she had seen in her car

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26. The Obeah man gazed at her with his two yellow eyes

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27. “All kinds of herbs,” the Obeah man said

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28. The Obeah man paused and gave her an amused look

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29. Finally, the curtain parted and the Obeah man beckoned for her to come in

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30. The Obeah man nodded

31. “Well,” the Obeah man walked towards her

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32. “Is this really necessary?” she asked the Obeah man

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33. She was barely inside when the curtain parted and the Obeah man re-entered the room

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34. The Obeah man watched her, chuckling to himself

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35. The Obeah man closed his eyes for a good minute

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36. Finally, the Obeah man went over to the bookcase

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37. Was that a Blackheart book, the same kind of witchcraft bible that Dar used to consult? She wondered if it was something all Obeah people possessed

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38. The Obeah man stood by his table, as still as a statue

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39. “I don’t give refunds,” the Obeah man said

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40. As they drove on in silence, Manda thought about the Obeah man’s words

41. “It’s…” Manda paused as she remembered what the Obeah man had said

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42. “But first tell me, what happen with you and Tee’s Obeah man

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43. And she can’t bring herself to believe what some old Obeah woman said before she was born

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44. “Nik, don’t you think this whole Obeah bashing has gone on long enough?”

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45. And what with seeing ghosts and visions, visiting an Obeah man, worrying about Sierra and everyone else, and not to mention the hell Daniel had put her through lately, and now the surprise arrival of Sherrie’s baby…it was a wonder she hadn’t lost her bloody mind, let alone the keys

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46. After twenty minutes of listening, the subject of Obeah hadn’t come up, and Manda crossed her fingers, hoping it never would

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47. For a moment she wondered if this was Obeah at work, but then dismissed the thought as just paranoia

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48. No Obeah person could be that powerful

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49. But it was strange though, how it had happened right when Sierra had said the word Obeah

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50. What did it matter? Either way, it was over, and there was a reasonable, logical explanation behind it that had nothing to do with Obeah

51. “Some of them Obeah people – they have the devil’s power behind them

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52. Remember that last hurricane that did nearly mash up Jamaica? Some people think it was Obeah that cause it

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53. The one who would bring about the Obeah woman’s curse

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54. “Put it in her food?” She remembered how she had tried to get Sierra to drink the special tea the Obeah man had given her, but Sierra wouldn’t touch it

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55. But whatever power it was supposed to possess, the Obeah oil couldn’t stop what was about to come

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56. She had to cancel her trip to a local ATM, where she wanted to get some money to pay Angie back for the Obeah oil

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57. “I think you should get a refund for that Obeah oil,” Manda said, through the cloth of the mask that covered her own nose and mouth

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58. She wanted to see if Sierra had finally dropped all the talk about Obeah, but she kept the volume low so that Angie wouldn’t hear it

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59. But after the interview when Sierra started taking calls, a woman got on the phone and brought up the subject of Obeah again

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60. Darette Brown? Could this be the same Darette Brown Aunt Beryl had told her about? The same Darette Brown who was once their father’s fiancé? The Obeah woman’s daughter?

61. It was Sierra, who had gone on the air to tell her audience that the letter-writing culprit had been caught, and lo and behold, it was an Obeah woman herself

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62. But when getting run down by a bicycle delivery man didn’t do it, or being gored on the train, or gashed by a knife – when almost electrocuting herself just changing a light bulb, and even nearly drowning in the East River still didn’t do it, the one misfortune that Sierra considered so awful that it put an instant stop to her goading of Obeah practitioners, was an attack on the part of her body she valued the most

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63. “Have you ever heard of Obeah?”

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64. An Obeah woman put a curse on us, through our mother, and so far our lives are playing out just as she predicted

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65. Those visions confirm everything the Obeah woman said

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66. And you think the Obeah woman is haunting you

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67. A nurse who was into Obeah

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68. Dar, the Obeah woman

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69. ” Angie cursed when Manda told her about the visit to the Obeah woman

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70. She hadn’t understood the warning from the Obeah man in Brooklyn