Crossword-Solution: GRIGRI
We have 16 clues for the answer “GRIGRI”
| Clue | Answers |
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| African amulet (Var.) | 1 answer |
| African talisman, amulet, or charm | 1 answer |
| An African amulet | 1 answer |
| Climber's belaying device | 1 answer |
| Good-luck charm in Africa. | 1 answer |
| WEST Indies palm | 2 answers |
| Voodoo charm | 3 answers |
| AFRICAN amulet | 4 answers |
| AFRICAN fetish | 5 answers |
| African charm | 6 answers |
| charm Africa | 10 answers |
| ANCIENT AMULET | 10 answers |
| AMULET WORD | 11 answers |
| Talisman | 18 answers |
| Amulet | 24 answers |
| West Indies plant | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GRIGRI (3)
The word _grigri_, also of African origin, simply refers to a charm, which may be used for an innocent or innocuous purpose.
Thus, in a Louisiana Creole song, we find a quadroon mother promising her daughter a charm to prevent the white lover from forsaking her: "_Pou tchombé li na fé grigri._" "We shall make a _grigri_ to keep him." Simultaneously with the publication of "Gombo Zhèbes," Hearn contributed a series of articles[24] to _Harper's Weekly._ (221-227, 230, 232.) These papers, which are commonplace newspaper work, tell of New Orleans, its Expositions, its Superstitions, Voudooism, and the Creole Patois.
Fetishes (native names for them are ‘grigri,’ ‘juju,’ &c.) may be mere curious mysterious objects that strike a negro’s fancy, or they may be consecrated or affected by a priest or fetish-man; the theory of their influence is that they belong to or are made effectual by a spirit or demon yet they have to stand the test of experience, and if they fail to bring their owner luck and safety, he discards them for some more powerful medium.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1954–2021).