What is "bocor"

Usage examples of "bocor".

Not a supernaturally revived corpse, but a sort of combined kidnap and poisoning victim, released or abandoned by her captor, her bocor, after three decades.

He knew her intimately now—he'd been up scrambling like an ape in the high spars when they rerigged her, he'd swung an axe when they chopped down the forecastle structure and most of the railing, he'd sweated with saw and drill when they opened new ports for more cannon, and, for more hours than he could yet bear to remember, he'd sat in a sling halfway between the gunwale above and the sand or water below, and, foot by foot, chiseled charred seaweed and barnacles off her hull and dug out the teredo worms, and hammered into the wood little brass drogues, carved and chanted over by Davies' bocor to be powerful antiworm charms.

They claim it keeps their gums red, but all old bocors have white gums anyway.

But before he went back to England he came to New Providence with us, and lived a few weeks with the bocors.

The bocors and the houngans knew that, always had a human sacrifice awaiting their dreaded lord.

Few of the bocors in Haiti today really understand it, their knowledge merely having scratched its surface.

Even he was nervous, a high priest whose powers were far greater than any of the black houngans or bocors, flinched at the prospect of summoning the Master himself.

He stared at them for a long moment, then decided he needed to learn more about Bocors and Houngons before tomorrow morning.

Because Lavelle evidently was one of the most powerful Bocors who had ever drawn a sieve, there was good reason to believe that he would be able to maintain control of the Gates and that, in time, when the Carramazzas were disposed of, he would be able to cast back the creatures that he had permitted out of Hell.