Voodoo and Obeahs: Phases of West India Witchcraft
- ISBN-10
- 1770830227
- ISBN-13
- 9781770830226
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-05-02
- Publisher
- Theophania Publishing
- Author
- Joseph J Williams S J
Description
Just as fetishism was for a long time accepted as a generic term covering all that was nefarious in the customs of the West African tribes, so in the popular mind today, Voodoo and Obeah are interchangeable and signify alike whatever is weird and eerie in the practices of the descendants of these same tribes as they are Just as fetishism was for a long time accepted as a generic term covering all that was nefarious in the customs of the West African tribes, so in the popular mind today, Voodoo and Obeah are interchangeable and signify alike whatever is weird and eerie in the practices of the descendants of these same tribes as they are.
