Obé, or OBI, the name given to the magical arts or witchcraft practised by Obeah-men and Obeah-women among the negroes of the West Indies and the United States. It is substantially similar to the corresponding superstitions all the world over. See HAYTI, NEGROES, MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT; and H. J. Bell, Obeah: Witchcraft in the West Indies (1890).
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