Crossword-Solution: GRIGRI 6 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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.