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gris-gris

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Unknown. Compare juju (“a fetish or charm”); compare also Mande gerregery or Mandingo gregory, an amulet or curse-object.

noun gris-gris · greegree · gri-gri · grigri · grisgris

An African, or Afro-American, charm or talisman. A horn, or rude image, is sometimes made use of as a means of preserving the medicines of defense, and is worn as an amulet. These images, horns, or other articles, called greegrees, or jeujeus, are not held sacred for a moment after the medicine is found to have lost its power […].

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noun charm

Français	grigri

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@misc{gris_gris_2026,
  title = {gris-gris},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gris-gris},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}