Gris-Grisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Unknown. Compare juju (“a fetish または charm”); compare also Mande gerregery or Mandingo gregory, an amulet or curse-object.^[1]

名詞

gris-gris (複数形 gris-gris)

1. An African, or Afro-American, charm or talisman.
   • 1865, David Livingstone and Charles Livingstone, Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries:

     A horn, or rude image, is sometimes made use of as a means of preserving the medicines of defense, and is worn as an amulet. These images, horns, or other articles, called greegrees, or jeujeus, are not held sacred for a moment after the medicine is found to have lost its power […].

   • 2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books 2009, p. 61:

     The Bambara were not Muslim, but they knew how to make gris-gris.

参考

• gris-gris on Wikipedia.
• conjuration
• conjure (noun)
• hoodoo

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