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JAMAICA DICTIONARY: O
Published Mar 2, 2001Do all your Jamaican friends laugh at you every time you open your mouth and try to speak Jamaican? Jamaicanize your vocabulary here with our words that start with O
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obeah: a brand of witchcraft practiced in Jamaica
obeah man: a man who practices obeah
obeah ooman: a woman who practices obeah
oddah: other
ongle: only
ooman: woman
oonu: you
ova: over
ow: How
owt: out
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Obeah is more than "a brand of witchcraft practiced in Jamaica". When Africans were taken from Africa to slavery in the Caribbean, they brought lots of things with them, including religion. When Christianity/Catholicism was being pushed on them they rebelled by incorporating aspects of their own African religions that they already had with the Catholicism that was thrust on them. The result was obeah.
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