Crossword-Solution: OBEAH 5 letters, 84 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

But I fancy that a missionary, preaching on this story to Negroes; telling them plainly that the “Serpent” meant the first Obeah man; and then comparing the experiences of that hapless pair in Eden, with their own after certain orgies not yet extinct in Africa and elsewhere, would be only too well understood: so well, indeed, that he might run some risk of eating himself, not of the tree of life, but of that of death.

Justly, therefore, do our colonial courts punish the Obeah sorcerer, who (though an impostor) is not the less a murderer.

CHAPTER IX OBEAH This conversation in Colonel Menendez’s study produced a very unpleasant impression upon my mind.

Nevertheless, it is a fact beyond doubt that among the negroes both of the West Indies and the United States there is a widespread belief in the powers of the Obeah man.

Bell, the term Obeah is most probably derived from the substantive Obi, a word used on the East coast of Africa to denote witchcraft, sorcery, and fetishism in general.