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/boʊˈkoɹ/ · noun
(voodoo) A voodoo practitioner who deals with malefic as well as beneficial effects; a sorcerer..
A bòkò is an entrepreneur, and has a reputation as a man who will “work with both hands,” that is, for healing and revenge.
“The bokor who knows the magic can make anyone a zombi—a Haitian living abroad, a foreigner.”
The corpse is buried in all solemnity, and two days later, at dead of night, the bocor digs it up, stops feeding it salt, and has himself a zombie.
It seemed to him that he was […] surrendering all agency and becoming hers to command, as if she were a Haitian bokor and he at lunch at Bergdorf Goodman had been administered the so-called zombie's cucumber which confused his thought processes and made him her slave for life.
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Bocor means (voodoo) A voodoo practitioner who deals with malefic as well as beneficial effects; a sorcerer..
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A bòkò is an entrepreneur, and has a reputation as a man who will “work with both hands,” that is, for healing and revenge.
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