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Definition of Jujus
1. juju [n] - See also: juju
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jujus
Literary usage of Jujus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cross River Natives: Being Some Notes on the Primitive Pagans of Obubura by Charles Partridge (1905)
"There are four smaller jujus of similar design, three of which are ... When the
king of this town dies, the big wooden jujus are put over men's heads, ..."
2. The Ashanti Campaign of 1900 by Cecil Hamilton Armitage, Arthur Forbes Montanaro (1901)
"Another unmistakable sign of the near vicinity of a town or village is the finding
of jujus placed on the path, consisting sometimes of buried ..."
3. At the Back of the Black Man's Mind: Or, Notes on the Kingly Office in West by Richard Edward Dennett (1906)
"... and when I found traces of the " jujus" or fetishes into which nails are driven
in some of their temples, swear "jujus " and family " jujus " on the one ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1913)
""Ancestor worship, nature-jujus, secret societies, the principal events of life,
and the commonest actions of the day, all blend inextricably in a ..."
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