Obeah vs Null - What's the difference?
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A form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in Africa and practised in parts of the Caribbean.
* 1997', James D. Rice, '''''Obeah'' , entry in Junius P. Rodriguez (editor), ''The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery ,
* 2001 , Holger Henke, The West Indian Americans ,
* 2011 , Margarite Fernández Olmos, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Creole Religions of the Caribbean ,
A magician or witchdoctor of the magic craft.
* 1860 , R. W. Emerson, The Story of West-Indian Emancipation'', Moncure Daniel Conway (editor), '' ,
* 1986 , Kurt E. Koch, Occult ABC , 2nd Edition,
A spell performed in the practice of the magic craft; an item associated with such a spell.
* 1893 , Publications of the Folklore Society (Great Britain) ,
* 2009 , Lond Schiebinger, Scientific Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World'', Bernard Bailyn, Patricia L Denault (editors), ''Soundings in Atlantic History ,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between obeah and null
is that obeah is a form of folk magic, medicine or witchcraft originating in africa and practised in parts of the caribbean while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.obeah
English
(wikipedia obeah)Alternative forms
* obi, obea, oby, obiaNoun
page 477,
- Although lacking a self-perpetuating institutional structure, Obeah was a crucial element of Afro-Caribbean religions everywhere from Suriname's Maroon societies (communities of runaway slaves) to the Leeward Islands' slave societies.
page 89,
- However, quite often it is also applied to protect from obeah' spells which the client feels himself or herself to be suffering from. Since '''obeah''' can also cast protective spells (e.g., against other ' obeah spells), it is not entirely correct to dismiss it as an evil practice.
page 155,
- Obeah —a set of hybrid or creolized beliefs dependent on ritual invocation, fetishes, and charms—incorporates two very distinct categories of practice.
page 651,
- but he went down to death, with dusky dreams of African shadow-catchers and Obeahs hunting him.
page 299,
- I asked him if he had been charmed as a child by an Obeah'. ' Obeahs are the magicians of the Carribean islands.
page 254,
- Mr. M. J. Walhouse then read a paper on "Some Indian Obeahs'", and exhibited some photos of Kurumbars, and a piece of the bone of an elk and an iron cock's spur, with which a man had been murdered, both of which had been regarded as ' Obeahs .
page 320,
- Although Adair suspected that obeahs often employed poisons, he emphasized that the diseases induced by obeahs resulted from “depraved imagination, or a powerful excitement or depression of the mental faculties.”
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.