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Mumbo Jumbo

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Among the Mandingos of the western Sudan a bugbear by means of which the women are terrified and disciplined by societies of the men one of whom assumes a masquerade for the purpose hence loosely any Negro idol fetish or bugaboo

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