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JUJU

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 546 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JEE-JUN
JUJU , a West
African
  word held by some authorities to be a corruption of
Mandingo
  gru-gru, a charm. It is more generally believed to have been adapted by the Mandingos directly from Fr. joujou, a toy or plaything. The word, as used by Europeans on the
Guinea
 
coast
 , was originally applied to the
objects
  which it was supposed the negroes worshipped, and was transferred from the
objects
  themselves to the
spirits
  or gods who dwelt in them, and finally to the whole religious beliefs of the West Africans. It is currently used in each of these senses, and more loosely to indicate all the manners and customs of the negroes of the
Guinea
 
coast
 , particularly the
power
  of
interdiction
  exercised in the name of
spirits
  (see
FETISHISM
  and TABOO).


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