| Informal social control occurs through peer pressure, gossip, and fear of harmful magic known as obeah. |
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| Some still fear the African-derived black magic called obeah that is common in the Caribbean region. |
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| The obeah woman gave her associate an igloo and told him to go and buy some bags of ice from a gas station in the next parish. |
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| Although it has been illegal for a long time, obeah, the traditional witchcraft of the Caribbean, still exists. |
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| Together they unravel and expose the island's medicine woman who delves into the dark secrets of obeah, an ancient mystical practice similar to voodoo. |
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| Her mother and father took her to the doctor, who gave her some medicine, and then her mother had Ma Jolie, an obeah woman, come to see her. |
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| Myalist, bush doctor, iyalorisha, curandera, four-eye, even obeah woman for them who don't understand. |
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| This complicated paradise, which merged starched hand-embroidered linen and potions from the obeah woman, was shattered by the author's own emergence into sharp-tongued independence. |
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| He holds a Bachelor's of Science degree from Purdue University in Biology and comes from a family that includes several practicing obeah people. |
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| The practice of obeah is illegal in the Bahamas and punishable by law. |
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| They include blood oaths, the esoteric practice of Obeah, Ananse Spider trickster tales, day names, and a strong belief in transmigration. |
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