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According to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary: Mumbo Jumbo is a noun and is the name of a grotesque idol said to have been worshipped by some tribes. In its figurative sense, Mumbo Jumbo is an object of senseless veneration or a meaningless ritual. According to the 1803 Supplement to Encyclopædia Britannica Third Edition:
Mumbo Jumbo commonly refers to: Mumbo jumbo (phrase), an English phrase for a meaningless ritual ... a 1981 song by Squeeze on the album East Side Story "Mumbo Jumbo
Given that the protagonists of the novel are Voodoo practitioners, the novel itself contains a great deal of Voodoo terminology. In the novel, Voodoo is an effective art: PaPa LaBas practices from his Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral, and at one point his assistant is taken over by a loa whom she has neglected to feed.
Jumbo was exported to Jardin des Plantes, a zoo in Paris, and then transferred in 1865 to London Zoo in England. Despite public protest, Jumbo was sold to P. T. Barnum, who took him to the United States for exhibition in March 1882. The elephant's name spawned the common word "jumbo", meaning large in size. [3]
indaba – from Xhosa or Zulu languages – "stories" or "news" typically conflated with "meeting" (often used in South African English) japa – from Yoruba, "to flee" jazz – possibly from Central African languages From the word jizzi”. jenga – from the Swahili verb kujenga meaning "to build". [11] jive – possibly from Wolof jev
International sales and aggregation company LevelK has boarded Danish 3D animation “Mumbo Jumbo.” The project, which has kicked off its pre-production phase, is based on the beloved children ...
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 ...
Black Herman authored Secrets of Magic, Mystery, and Legerdemain, published in 1925 that contains his semi-fictionalized autobiography, directions for simple illusions suitable to the novice stage magician, advice on astrology and lucky numbers, and a sampling of African-American hoodoo folk magic customs and practices.