Mumbo Jumbo

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·- An object of superstitious homage and fear.

II. Mumbo Jumbo ·add. ·noun Among the Mandingos of the western Sudan, a bugbear by means of which the women are terrified and disciplined by societies of the men, one of whom assumes a masquerade for the purpose; hence, loosely, any Negro idol, fetish, or bugaboo.

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