Obeah is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 45 anagrams from letters in obeah (abeho).
1750-60; compare Gullah, Jamaican English, Guyanan English, Sranan óbia magic, charm; Twi ɔ-bayifó sorcerer (compound with -fo person), Igbo díbìà folk healer (compound with dí- expert in)
And with a formless roar of killing-rage, Stern swung on the obeah, with the rifle.
But the obeah, with a whining plaint, spat away his tobacco-leaf.
obeah can be worked by either alone, and is not tied to the presence of the snake.
But already, with a chattering howl, the obeah was running forward.
The obeah man agreed to cure him, provided he received ten dollars for his pains.
The ceiba is the sacred tree of the negro, the temple of Jumbi the proper home of obeah.
There, already recovered from the blow which would have killed a man ten times over, he saw the obeah snarling after him.
Up he brought the automatic, till the bead lay fair upon the naked, muscular breast of the obeah.
obeah, on the other hand, kills only by poison—does not show the blood at all.
Yet the warning echoed loudly through Madison Forest; and the obeah hesitated.
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