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A bokor (male) (Haitian Creole: bòkò) or caplata (female) is a Vodou priest or priestess for hire in Haiti who is said to serve the loa, " 'with both hands', practicing for both good and evil." [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Their practice includes the creation of zombies and of ouangas (talismans that house spirits).
Bokor Hill was abandoned first by the French in late 1940s, during the First Indochina War, because of local insurrections guided by the Khmer Issarak. It was only in 1962, for the reopening of the "Cité du Bokor", that a casino was established in the new hotels near the lake, (Hotels Sangkum and Kiri).
Bokor is a Hungarian surname that may refer to . Elemér Bokor (1887–1928), Hungarian entomologist; Jeffrey Bokor, American engineer; Jozsef Bokor, Hungarian scientist; Marián Bokor (born 1977), Slovakian javelin thrower
Bokor Church being one of the few churches in Cambodia to have survived the Khmer Rouge massacres, it has become an important place of pilgrimage for the small Catholic community in Cambodia. The church also welcomes many pilgrims from Vietnam, who deposit various devotional objects there: statues of the Sacred Heart and of the Virgin Mary ...
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; ... Bokor is a Vodou sorcerer. Bokor may also refer to Bokor (surname) Bokor, Hungary ...
Jeffrey Bokor is an American electrical engineer.. Bokor earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and completed a doctorate in the same field at Stanford University in 1980.
The 2021 Bokor City Council election were held on 25 July 2021. This is the first Bokor City Council election, City Council elections will serve five-year terms. [1] [2]
Nepenthes bokor, described by Martin Cheek in June 2009, [2] is a later synonym of N. bokorensis. [3] [4] In August 2011, François Mey and Alastair Robinson discovered two large new populations of N. bokorensis on the Mount Bokor massif, which they called "Location B" and "Location C" (the original roadside population being "Location A"). [5 ...