Gris-gris or grigri is a charm, amulet, or fetish.
Gris-gris o grigri es un amuleto o fetiche.
| Front | gris-gris or grigri or greegree \GREE-gree\ |
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| Back | noun A charm, amulet, or fetish. [From French, of West African origin. Earliest documented use: 1698.] "The marabout [a Muslim holy man] produced a small calculator, punched in some numbers, and quoted a price of more than a thousand dollars for the gris-gris. 'With it you can walk across the entire desert and no one will harm you,' he promised." - Peter Gwin; The Telltale Scribes of Timbuktu; National Geographic (Washington, DC); Jan 2011. |
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