Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mumbo Jumbo is a West African word often cited by historians and etymologists as deriving from the Mandinka word "Maamajomboo", which refers to a masked male dancer who takes part in religious ceremonies. [1] In the 18th century Mumbo Jumbo referred to a West African god.
Mumbo, also known as The Amazing Mumbo and Mumbo Jumbo, is a turquoise-skinned stage magician who uses his tools of the trade for criminal purposes. He uses a magic wand as his main weapon. Mad Mod
3.3 Claims of hidden survival. 3.3.1 Supposed Continuity in Freemasonry. ... Mumbo-Jumbo (1972), has a Templar Knight Hinkle Von Vampton, who serves as the main villain.
When Mumbo Jumbo magically grows to giant size, he has to go on a dangerous journey with his three friends, to find the scary witch Baba Yaga so she can turn him small again. It is an adventurous ...
Anti-vaccine campaigners who spread “mumbo jumbo” on social media are “completely wrong”, Boris Johnson has said, as figures show that more than a fifth of adults in some parts of England ...
Mumbo Jumbo commonly refers to: Mumbo jumbo (phrase), an English phrase for a meaningless ritual or nonsense; Mumbo Jumbo may also refer to: Music.
Mumbo Jumbo was first published in hardback in 1972 by Doubleday in New York, with its cover featuring a photograph of Josephine Baker chosen by the author, who later recalled meeting Baker in the last year of her life and giving her a copy of the book. [14] The novel has remained continuously in print in the decades since its first edition.
Ludwig, Sämi, Concrete Language: Intercultural Communication in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, Cross Cultural Communication Vol. 2, 1996; reissued in 2015. Dick, Bruce, and Amritjit Singh (eds). Conversations With Ishmael Reed, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.