obeah
- n (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery
- n a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas
- Wenner-Gren's associates prudently hired an obeah (Bahamian voodoo) ghost (10 from a local ghost renter) to assure success at the opening.
- In one scene, a group of pallbearers carries a coffin from door to door so that the obeah, or medicine man, can ask if someone in the house was involved in the death.