Lexicographical Neighbors of Obeahed
Literary usage of Obeahed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Five Years in Trinidad and St. Vincent: A View of the Social Condition of by Carmichael (A. C.) (1834)
"It is in vain to reason with them,—" Misses, I'm obeahed—I know I'll go dead,"
is all you can obtain from them. Negroes so firmly believe this, ..."
2. A Twelvemonth's Residence in the West Indies, During the Transition from by Richard Robert Madden (1835)
"... trumpery ingredients used in the practice of obeah were incapable of producing
mischief except on the imagination of the person intended to be obeahed. ..."
3. Memoirs of Father Ripa During Thirteen Years' Residence at the Court of by Matteo Ripa (1855)
"'his is the song of a wife, whose husband had been obeahed by aother woman, in
consequence of his rejecting her advances. ..."
4. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1845)
"This is the long of a wife, whose husband had been obeahed by another woman, in
consequence of his rejecting her advances. A negro riddle : " Pretty Miss ..."
5. The Life and Correspondence of M.G. Lewis: With Many Pieces in Prose and by Matthew Gregory Lewis (1839)
"... or of telling •another that he had been obeahed, he should forfeit, his share
in the next present of salt fish which I meant soon to distribute among ..."
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