Word: macumba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cooks answered with a macumba, a Brazilian form of sorcery much practiced by the poor and ignorant. Black chickens were killed at street intersections in the dark of the moon, crossed chicken bones were mailed to the former President...
Last week Linhares was still in the Copacabana. He had stayed out of airplanes, appeared in good health, had not hired a cook. Said one taxi driver: grateful ex-Cook Rosa must be blessing Linhares' fingernail parings, sacrificing white chickens at dawn-working a countet-macumba...
Horacio Guimares, a workman, lived in the village of Nilopolis,an hour's ride from Rio de Janeiro. Next door lived Ricardina Rosario da Silva, "Mae de Santo" (High Priestess) of a fetishistic, voodoo-like cult which Brazilians call "Macumba." Pious worshipers filled Ricardina's yard, clapped and stomped, chanted and sang, screamed and shouted outside Horacio's door...
...Macumba devotees the chicken has great significance as a receptor of evil spirits. A practical-joking American in Brazil once put a dead chicken outside a friend's house. The servants vanished...
...best by far, couldn't be kept off the Hit Parade with a shot-gun and to boot there is dancing by Bill Robinson and the chorus, and song by Nancy Noel and Bill Johnson. Another eye-opener is "It's A Big, Wide, Wonderful World" and "The Macumba" with Imogene Coca and Candido Bothello's delightful voice...