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Mumbo jumbo   /mˈəmboʊ dʒˈəmboʊ/   Listen
Mumbo jumbo

noun
1.
Language or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion.





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"Mumbo jumbo" Quotes from Famous Books



... the direct interposition of malevolent and benevolent spirits. Their gods are numerous as in Greek religion, and likewise one of them is usually set up as the superior deity, to be the Tirawa of the Indian, the greater Atua of Polynesia, and the Mumbo Jumbo of a West African negro. There is no centralization of the supernatural powers, as in the Jehovah of Judaism and the still subtler Brahma of the Asian. Then, too, the gods must be concretely materialized for purposes of worship and sacrifice; consequently idols are made, to be regarded ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton
... face seemed to darken. "Ten years," he said in a low voice. "Ten years that inhuman monster has been loose on Earth. He's become a legend. He's replaced Satan, the Bogeyman, Frankenstein's monster, and Mumbo Jumbo, Lord of the Congo, in the public mind. Read the newsfacs, watch the newscasts. Take a look at popular fiction. He's everywhere at once. He can do anything. He's taken on the attributes of the djinn, the vampire, the ghoul, the werewolf, and every other horror and hobgoblin that the mind ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett


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