Obeah
Obeah noun - A religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas.
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Voodoo
Voodoo noun - A person skilled in using supernatural forces.
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Obeah and voodoo are semantically related in black magic topic. You can use "Obeah" instead a noun "Voodoo".
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- In the Monsters episode "Hostile Takeover", the rather slimy Corrupt Corporate Executive Villain Protagonist is concerned that his use of voodoo magic to get a leg up on his business rivals has made him the target of a demon named Obeah.
Source: Sympathetic Magic - In Live and Let Die, as in the novel, the villain uses Voodoo, as his mistress/servant Solitaire, who has "the power of the Obeah" (which supposedly lets her see the future), to maintain an iron grip over his island nation and drug empire.
Source: Scooby-Doo Hoax
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