Assertion: obeah | /r/HasProperty | synonymous
Facets:
value: with evil magic
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In his 1930 review of Martha Beckwith's classic ethnography of rural Jamaican life, Black Roadways (1929), Herskovits points out that, "in the literature on the West Indies, 'obeah' is synonymous with evil magic, and Miss Beckwith tacitly accepts this interpretation.
text: Are you then so ignorant, Sir, of the manners and customs of the people whose cause you profess to advocate, as not to know that Obeah, and death, are synonymous: that the latter is the invariable end and object of the former, and that this imported African superstition is widely different from the harmless tales of witches and broomsticks, which once frightened you in the arms of your nursery maid?