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- noun Irish darling; -- an Irish term of address expressing affection.
- noun A popular dance music of Brazil, derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult.
- noun a Brazilian religious cult of African origin; combines voodoo elements with singing a chanting and dancing.
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- noun A
religious cult , having elements ofsorcery ,ritual dance andfetishes , fromBrazil
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- noun popular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult
- noun a Brazilian religious cult of African origin; combines voodoo elements with singing and chanting and dancing
- noun (Brazil) followers of a religious cult of African origin
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Examples
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These spiritual items can be associated with Roman Catholicism and other practices like candomblé, curanderismo, espiritismo, macumba and santerÃa, says Wiki.
Angora Holly Polo: The Get Rich Bubble Bath Angora Holly Polo 2012
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These spiritual items can be associated with Roman Catholicism and other practices like candomblé, curanderismo, espiritismo, macumba and santería, says Wiki.
Angora Holly Polo: The Get Rich Bubble Bath Angora Holly Polo 2012
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These spiritual items can be associated with Roman Catholicism and other practices like candomblé, curanderismo, espiritismo, macumba and santerÃa, says Wiki.
Angora Holly Polo: The Get Rich Bubble Bath Angora Holly Polo 2012
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These spiritual items can be associated with Roman Catholicism and other practices like candomblé, curanderismo, espiritismo, macumba and santería, says Wiki.
Angora Holly Polo: The Get Rich Bubble Bath Angora Holly Polo 2012
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Everyone dresses in white on Reveillon, to honour the sea/macumba goddess, Iemãja
Those 100 things to do before you die. Ann Althouse 2008
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Indeed, it's our memory of Sarno's film, with its arousingly percussive score, that pointed out the inadequacy of MACUMBA SEXUAL's anemic and overly aerated synth score, which does nothing to communicate the power of Tara's effectively staged macumba rite or to resonate with any of the bizarre African nick-nacks adorning her desert lair.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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Indeed, it's our memory of Sarno's film, with its arousingly percussive score, that pointed out the inadequacy of MACUMBA SEXUAL's anemic and overly aerated synth score, which does nothing to communicate the power of Tara's effectively staged macumba rite or to resonate with any of the bizarre African nick-nacks adorning her desert lair.
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Según el cónsul de Haití en Brasil, George Samuel Antoine, la culpa había sido de la macumba y de la raza: "O africano em si tem maldição.
Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news 2010
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According to Haiti's consul in Brazil, George Samuel Antoine, the fault lay with macumba, or African spiritism, and the race: "The African himself is damned.
Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word macumba
"The Americas were my district, a territory where you made a pile of money in a month of sweat and lost it in a night of gambling and women, where the Southern Cross blinked out its torrid message in the hot sky—WELCOME TO SOUTH AMERICA, CONTINENT OF CONTRASTS AND ROMANCE—not my kind of territory at first, hard and gritty and tough on the liver for a pure white man, yet once it got in your blood, you couldn't get over it even if you lived five lives more, because that macumba magic gets under the skin, those nights on the sand of the copacabana with the jet black mountains at your back and that purple ocean before your eyes, savage and sexy like a jaguar prowling for porterhouse steaks in a summer rain, or out there on the grassy flatness they call the pampas, under the stars so close down to a man he can touch 'em with his fingertips, so close he'd have to crawl on his belly just to get to his blanket spaced between sky and earth ... Well, sirs, a man gets to love it so much it near spoils 'im for any other life."
-Tintin in the New World by Frederic Tuten, p 168
July 10, 2008
bilby commented on the word macumba
"The Nordestino religion, called among other things macumba or candomblé, is a patchwork of voodoo, spiritism, animism and debased Catholicism, but the central ritual is cleansing.
- 'The São Francisco', Germaine Greer in The Madwoman's Underclothes.
September 1, 2008
mollusque commented on the word macumba
The arrangement of glass cases along the sides, the alchemical altar in the center, the liturgy of a civilized eighteenth-century macumba--this was not accidental but symbolic, a strategem.
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 13
September 29, 2008