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It goes a little something like this: A bokor is a voodoo sorcerer in Haiti, and it is said that he has the power to turn people into zombies essentially by sucking out a victim's soul and trapping it in a bottle.
Pajiba Dustin Rowles 2010
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Haitian zombies were once normal people, but underwent zombification by a "bokor" through spell or potion, and are afterwards used as slaves.
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And now, in the sewer of the French Quarter, she had placed her trust in these two members of the Circuit, previously just names in a chat room: the dusky-hued White Witch named Mikhu, and Theo, a hot voodoo bokor—practitioner—who both lived in New Orleans and confirmed that a new vampire doyenne—queen—was in town.
Crusade Nancy Holder 2010
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Skye had conjured the original glamour spell on herself, and the witch and the bokor had given it a boost.
Crusade Nancy Holder 2010
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He was dressed as a voodoo bokor, with a bone necklace and a round, feathered cap.
Crusade Nancy Holder 2010
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The dancers carry a bokor, an engraved bowl made from silver or aluminium, laden with flowers.
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The most maleficent of sorcerers, a bokor, can supposedly manipulate the forces of darkness—even Satan himself—to command the dead to inflict terrifying punishment on a victim.
Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher 2007
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The most maleficent of sorcerers, a bokor, can supposedly manipulate the forces of darkness—even Satan himself—to command the dead to inflict terrifying punishment on a victim.
Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher 2007
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The most maleficent of sorcerers, a bokor, can supposedly manipulate the forces of darkness—even Satan himself—to command the dead to inflict terrifying punishment on a victim.
Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher 2007
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I would have thought that a model of demonic possession might have been more compatible with his world-view: the image of a staggering, nearly zombie-like body given hellish life by a loa under the direction, perhaps, of a bokor called the See-el-see rather appeals to me.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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