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maamajomboo
Mandinka · 1700s
"a masked enforcer figure in Mandinka ceremonies"
a costumed ancestral-spirit dancer summoned to settle village disputes
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mumbo jumbo
English · 1700s-1800s
"obscure or meaningless language, ritual, or jargon"
European travelers' accounts mocked the ritual as baffling, shifting its sense to nonsense
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