 ... may be swept off by its infatuation before the crime is detected ; for, strange as it may appear, so much do the negroes stand in awe of those obeah professors, so much do they dread their malice and their power, that, though knowing the havoc they...  An Account of Jamaica, and Its Inhabitants - Page 257by John Stewart - 1808 - 305 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Stewart - 1823 - 406 pages
...malice and their power, that, though knowing the havock they have made, and are still making, they are afraid to discover them to the whites ; and others,...terrors by being made a Christian : refuse him this boon, and he sinks a martyr to imagined evils. The author knew an instance of a negro, who, being reduced... | |
 | Samuel Reynolds Hole - 1835 - 380 pages
...their malice and their power, that, though knowing the havoc they have made, and are still making, they are afraid to discover them to the whites ; and, others...sinister purposes of mischief and revenge. A negro, under the infatuation of Obeah, can only be cured of his terrors by being made a Christian : refuse him this... | |
 | Oxonian - 1835 - 380 pages
...their malice and their power, that, though knowing the havoc they have made, and are still making, they are afraid to discover them to the whites ; and, others...sinister purposes of mischief and revenge. A negro, under the infatuation of Obeah, can only be cured of his terrors by being made a Christian : refuse him this... | |
 | Oxonian - 1835 - 386 pages
...league with them for sinister purposes of mischief and revenge. A negro, under the infatuation of Obeah, can only be cured of his terrors by being made a Christian : refuse him this boon, and he sinks a martyr to imagined evils. A negro, in short, considers himself as no longer under... | |
 | William Earle - 2005 - 260 pages
...Stewart acknowledges as much: "so much do the negroes stand in awe of those obeah professors... that a negro under this infatuation can only be cured of his terrors by being made a Christian."2 1 John Stewart, A View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica (Edinburgh,... | |
 | Joseph Ennemoser - 1854 - 546 pages
...their malice and their power, that, though knowing the havoc they have made and are still making, they are afraid to discover them to the whites ; and others,...sinister purposes of mischief and revenge. A negro under the infatuation of Obeah can only be cured of his terrors by being made a Christian : refuse him this... | |
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