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Obeah, or Obayi, is an ancestrally inherited tradition of Akan witches of Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Togo and their descendants in the African diaspora of the Caribbean. Inheritors of the tradition are referred to as "obayifo" (Akan/Ghana-region spiritual practitioners) and its priests as "bayi komfo" and "bonsam komfo", which translates to "obeah priest/priestess".

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  • Obeah (auch Obi) ist eine auf den Westindischen Inseln gebräuchliche Bezeichnung für Praktiken und Lebensvorgänge, die den ethnischen Religionen zugeordnet werden. Die Vokabel "Obeah" entstammt vermutlich dem Igbo (Nigeria) und wird vor allem benutzt in Bezug auf volkstümliche Zauberbräuche und -riten, sowie allgemein zur Beschreibung von in der westindischen Inselwelt üblichen religiösen Praktiken afrikanischer Herkunft. (de)
  • L’obeah (parfois orthographié Obi, Obeya ou Obia) est un ensemble syncrétique de pratiques spirituelles, médicales et judiciaires occultesCreole_slave_society,_obeah,_and_the_law_»_2-0" class="reference"> né dans les sociétés esclaves ouest-africaines des Antilles. (fr)
  • Obeah, or Obayi, is an ancestrally inherited tradition of Akan witches of Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Togo and their descendants in the African diaspora of the Caribbean. Inheritors of the tradition are referred to as "obayifo" (Akan/Ghana-region spiritual practitioners) and its priests as "bayi komfo" and "bonsam komfo", which translates to "obeah priest/priestess". According to historians, Obeah (sometimes also spelled Obi, Obeya, or Obia) is a system of spiritual healing and justice-making practices brought over by enslaved West Africans to the West Indies. Obeah is said to be difficult to define, as it is believed by some to not be a single, unified set of practices, since the word "Obeah" was historically not often used to describe one's own practices. Obeah is the justice-seeking arm of the Akan religion, and, in its original, traditional form (as opposed to its Caribbean form), is similar to other African diaspora religions such as Palo, Haitian Vodou, Santería, and Hoodoo in that it includes communication with ancestors and spirits and healing rituals. Nevertheless, Caribbean obeah differs from religions like Vodou and Santeria in that there is no explicit canon of gods or deities that is worshipped, and the practice is generally an individual action rather than part of a collective ceremony or offering. Traditional obeah, however, does have a specified set of deities, namely the Abosom and the Abonsam. According to some early colonial accounts, Obeah differed from Myal in that Obeah was viewed as nefarious while Myal was a more positive influence. Variants of Obeah are practiced in the Caribbean nations of the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Turks and Caicos Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Virgin Islands, as well as by the Igbo people of Nigeria. In some cases, aspects of these folk religions have survived through syncretism with Christian symbolism and practice introduced by Europeans. (en)
  • L'Obeah (a volte indicato come Obi) è un termine utilizzato per indicare le pratiche magiche e religiose originarie dell'Africa centrale e occidentale, per questo motivo essa condivide diversi elementi, oltre che le sue origini, con altre pratiche magico-religiose quali Palo, Vudù e Santeria.Questa particolare fede è praticata nel Suriname, Giamaica, Isole Vergini, Trinidad e Tobago, Guyana, Belize, nell'isola di Barbados e nelle Bahamas, oltre che in altre isole caraibiche. Questa pratica magico-religiosa è associata sia alla magia bianca che nera ed in molte zone caraibiche essa si è mescolata con elementi di altre religioni quali quella cristiana e dell'induismo pūjā, anche se in maniera impropria diversi testi associano questa pratica con la religione di Thelema. (it)
  • Obeah (soms gespeld als Obi) is een vorm van volksmagie of tovenarij die zijn oorsprong vindt in Centraal- en West-Afrika. In Obeah wordt gebruikgemaakt van zowel goede als zwarte magie. In dat opzicht is het verwant aan religies als Palo Monte, Vodou, Santeria en hoodoo. Tegenwoordig wordt het nog gepraktiseerd in Suriname, Haïti en vroegere Britse kolonies als Jamaica, de Maagdeneilanden, Trinidad en Tobago, Guyana, Belize, de Bahama's, Saint Vincent en de Grenadines en Barbados. (nl)
  • Obeah é uma forma de religião ou culto de ancestrais africanos que tem raízes em comum como o candomblé do Brasil, com a santeria de Cuba e com o vodu do Haiti. Também é associada à igreja Batista espiritual. No patois local, Obeah Mon ou Obeah Man significa "pai dos santos". É uma mistura de rituais e práticas tradicionais da África ocidental com crenças (principalmente cristãs) que foram ensinadas aos escravos africanos pelos seus captores europeus. (pt)
  • Obeah (lub Obi) – nazwa synkretycznych religijnych praktyk magicznych; część folkloru czarnoskórej ludności wysp Małych i Wielkich Antyli (Jamajka, Bahamy, Barbados, Wyspy Dziewicze, Trynidad, Tobago), a także Belize. Nazwa pochodzi z języka aszanti z zachodniej Afryki i oznacza "czarnoksięstwo". (pl)
  • Ormkult eller ofiolatri är religiös dyrkan av ormar och förekommer i flera gamla kulturer, särskilt i religioner och mytologi, där ormar sågs som symboler för styrka och återskapande. I etniska religioner förekommer ormkult i Afrika och Nordamerika. I det antika Grekland dyrkades heliga ormar, helgade åt Asklepios, vars symbol var ormen. I Egypten var glasögonormen symbol för elden och solskivan och fick därför smycka solgudens och faraos krona. Ormen som urtidsväsen är också vanlig i all världens myter. (sv)
  • Змеепоклонство (офиолатрия) — общераспространенный культ, известный во всех частях света, за исключением Австралии. Змей представляется как воплощение злого начала (древний змей), но и в то же время как целительный символ, например у греков — как эмблема Эскулапа. В гностическом учении офитов под формой змея представлено божественное слово, корень эонов, сил, идей, духов, всего сущего. (ru)
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  • Obayi, Obeya, Obia, Bayi (en)
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  • Obeah (auch Obi) ist eine auf den Westindischen Inseln gebräuchliche Bezeichnung für Praktiken und Lebensvorgänge, die den ethnischen Religionen zugeordnet werden. Die Vokabel "Obeah" entstammt vermutlich dem Igbo (Nigeria) und wird vor allem benutzt in Bezug auf volkstümliche Zauberbräuche und -riten, sowie allgemein zur Beschreibung von in der westindischen Inselwelt üblichen religiösen Praktiken afrikanischer Herkunft. (de)
  • L’obeah (parfois orthographié Obi, Obeya ou Obia) est un ensemble syncrétique de pratiques spirituelles, médicales et judiciaires occultesCreole_slave_society,_obeah,_and_the_law_»_2-0" class="reference"> né dans les sociétés esclaves ouest-africaines des Antilles. (fr)
  • Obeah (soms gespeld als Obi) is een vorm van volksmagie of tovenarij die zijn oorsprong vindt in Centraal- en West-Afrika. In Obeah wordt gebruikgemaakt van zowel goede als zwarte magie. In dat opzicht is het verwant aan religies als Palo Monte, Vodou, Santeria en hoodoo. Tegenwoordig wordt het nog gepraktiseerd in Suriname, Haïti en vroegere Britse kolonies als Jamaica, de Maagdeneilanden, Trinidad en Tobago, Guyana, Belize, de Bahama's, Saint Vincent en de Grenadines en Barbados. (nl)
  • Obeah é uma forma de religião ou culto de ancestrais africanos que tem raízes em comum como o candomblé do Brasil, com a santeria de Cuba e com o vodu do Haiti. Também é associada à igreja Batista espiritual. No patois local, Obeah Mon ou Obeah Man significa "pai dos santos". É uma mistura de rituais e práticas tradicionais da África ocidental com crenças (principalmente cristãs) que foram ensinadas aos escravos africanos pelos seus captores europeus. (pt)
  • Obeah (lub Obi) – nazwa synkretycznych religijnych praktyk magicznych; część folkloru czarnoskórej ludności wysp Małych i Wielkich Antyli (Jamajka, Bahamy, Barbados, Wyspy Dziewicze, Trynidad, Tobago), a także Belize. Nazwa pochodzi z języka aszanti z zachodniej Afryki i oznacza "czarnoksięstwo". (pl)
  • Ormkult eller ofiolatri är religiös dyrkan av ormar och förekommer i flera gamla kulturer, särskilt i religioner och mytologi, där ormar sågs som symboler för styrka och återskapande. I etniska religioner förekommer ormkult i Afrika och Nordamerika. I det antika Grekland dyrkades heliga ormar, helgade åt Asklepios, vars symbol var ormen. I Egypten var glasögonormen symbol för elden och solskivan och fick därför smycka solgudens och faraos krona. Ormen som urtidsväsen är också vanlig i all världens myter. (sv)
  • Змеепоклонство (офиолатрия) — общераспространенный культ, известный во всех частях света, за исключением Австралии. Змей представляется как воплощение злого начала (древний змей), но и в то же время как целительный символ, например у греков — как эмблема Эскулапа. В гностическом учении офитов под формой змея представлено божественное слово, корень эонов, сил, идей, духов, всего сущего. (ru)
  • Obeah, or Obayi, is an ancestrally inherited tradition of Akan witches of Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Togo and their descendants in the African diaspora of the Caribbean. Inheritors of the tradition are referred to as "obayifo" (Akan/Ghana-region spiritual practitioners) and its priests as "bayi komfo" and "bonsam komfo", which translates to "obeah priest/priestess". (en)
  • L'Obeah (a volte indicato come Obi) è un termine utilizzato per indicare le pratiche magiche e religiose originarie dell'Africa centrale e occidentale, per questo motivo essa condivide diversi elementi, oltre che le sue origini, con altre pratiche magico-religiose quali Palo, Vudù e Santeria.Questa particolare fede è praticata nel Suriname, Giamaica, Isole Vergini, Trinidad e Tobago, Guyana, Belize, nell'isola di Barbados e nelle Bahamas, oltre che in altre isole caraibiche. (it)
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  • Obeah (en)
  • Obeah (de)
  • Obeah (fr)
  • Obeah (it)
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  • Obeah (pl)
  • Obeah (pt)
  • Змеепоклонство (ru)
  • Ormkult (sv)
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