gris-gris
Americannoun
plural
gris-grisnoun
Example Sentences
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She falls hard for New Orleans, seeking traces of voodoo, “something more than just a souvenir doll or a little bag of gris-gris or a pink love potion, or a guide who will repeat his stories for twenty bucks,” she writes.
From Los Angeles Times
“Of course. Marie was a fortune-teller. She dealt in charms and curses and gris-gris. I am the goddess of magic.”
From Literature
The “resourceful” grandchild of a “well-heeled gris-gris queen of some renown,” Miss Pearl “wasn’t above adapting one of her MeeMaw’s charms to assure order was fixed in the world she ruled.”
From Los Angeles Times
Ham is bound by old gris-gris magic to New Orleans, Miss Pearl, bad habits and false realities.
From Los Angeles Times
From 1982, "I'll Scry Instead" by London's Monochrome Set is an irresistible little tune, wryly breezing through a laundry list of pseudoscientific superstitions: astrology, palm reading, birth charts, crystal balls, gris-gris, etc., as the luckless and lovelorn narrator sends money to a charlatan hoping for guidance:
From Scientific American
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