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 A sensationalist 1873 Victorian illustration of a "Ju-ju house" on the Gold Coast showing fetishised skulls and bones. Juju is a word of West African origin that refers to the supernatural power ascribed to an object. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
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The Gold Coast was the name of a region in West Africa which is now the nation of Ghana. ...
Western Africa (UN subregion) Maghreb[1] West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. ...
Origin
The word "juju" is commonly credited to West African tribes, namely the Yoruba of Western Nigeria. The other common source is the Bantu languages. This has been disputed by many experts, other theories range from the Hausa language to French joujou. Despite much debate linguists still disagree. The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are a large ethno-linguistic group or ethnic nation in West Africa. ...
Hausa is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by about 24 million people, and as a second language by about 15 million more. ...
Juju Magic Juju is an aura or other magical property, usually having to do with spirits or luck, which is bound to a specific object; it is also a term for the object. Juju also refers to the spirits and ghosts in West African lore as a general name. The object that contains the juju, or fetish, can be anything from an elephant’s head to an extinguisher. One of the most popular juju objects in West Africa, for example, is a monkey's hand. In general, juju can only be created by a witch doctor; few exceptions exist. Juju can be summoned by a witchdoctor for several purposes. Good juju can cure ailments of mind and body; anything from fractured limbs to a headache can be corrected. Bad juju is used to exact revenge, soothe jealousy, and cause misfortune. Contrary to common belief, voodoo is not related to juju, despite the linguistic and spiritual similarities. Juju has acquired some karmic attributes in more recent times. Good juju can stem from almost any good deed: saving a kitten, or returning a lost book. Bad juju can be spread just as easily. These ideas revolve around the luck and fortune portions of juju. The use of juju to describe an object usually involves small items worn or carried; these generally contain medicines produced by witchdoctors. Look up fetish in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Approximate worldwide distribution of monkeys. ...
For other uses, see Hand (disambiguation). ...
A witch doctor (in southern Africa known as a Sangoma) often refers to exotic healers that believe that maladies are caused by magic and are therefore best cured by it, as opposed to science or developed medicine. ...
Voodoo (Vodou, Vodoun, Vudu, or Vudun in Benin, Togo, southeastern Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Senegal; also Vodou in Haiti) is a name attributed to a traditionally uten West African spiritual system of faith and ritual practices. ...
Juju Music -
Main article: Jùjú music Juju is also the name of a popular Nigerian music. Tied closely to Yoruba culture, Juju generally features the tension drum (aka "talking drum') and bright, shimmering guitar lines, often played on a steel guitar. Though the form arose in the early half of the 20th century, it found its first real audience on Nigerian stages in the 1960s following the popularity of Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey and accordionist I.K. Dairo, M.B.E. In the late '60s former Highlife guitarist King Sunny Adé emerged as a force in the music. As the '60s became the '70s, Adé and Obey became the leading lights of Juju, audiences and the press casting Adé as an innovator and Obey as a traditionalist. Jùjú is a style of Nigerian popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion. ...
Fela Kuti remains probably the most well-known Nigerian musician, both at home and abroad Nigerian music has produced many kinds of folk and popular music, some of which are known throughout the world. ...
The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are a large ethno-linguistic group or ethnic nation in West Africa. ...
Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey (born in 1942 in Idogo) is a Nigerian popular musician, a contemporary and rival of some of the countrys biggest stars, including King Sunny Ade and Fela Kuti. ...
Isaiah Kehinde Dairo MBE (1930–1996) was a notable Nigerian Jùjú musician. ...
Sunny Patel (Sunday Adeniyi, born 1992) is by far the most popular performer of South Lake Tahoe]]n Jùjú music. ...
Both Obey and Adé found international audiences in the 1980s, Adé becoming a superstar when he signed with Island Records' in their bid to find an African Bob Marley, and Obey with his breakthrough album Current Affairs (1980). Island Records is a record label that was founded by British record producers in Jamaica. ...
World map showing location of Africa A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second_largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. ...
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Usage in Popular culture - The phrase is used in several John le Carre novels, notably Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
- The phrase is also featured in Graeme Greene's novel The Quiet American where narrator and protagonists Fowler remarks "and I thought to myself 'the juju doesn't work'"
- Juju is a term used to refer to energy: "good juju" is good energy; "bad juju" is bad energy. This popular meaning has found its way to television. The ABC series Grey's Anatomy uses the term in the episode "Superstition", as does the CBS series The Unit, in its 2006 episode, "The Kill Zone." It has also been used by Capitan Sig Hansen of the F/V Northwestern on the Discovery Channel show "The Deadliest Catch."
- In the music industry, Juju plays a big part in the work of J Plunky Branch with his afro-funk jazz fusion music. From 1971 to 1974 his band was called Juju, from 1975 to 1981 Oneness of Juju, from 1982 to 1988 Plunky & Oneness of Juju and from 1988 to present day is known as Plunky & Oneness. The band also had an album in 1984 called Electric JuJu Nation. (This information courtesy of the band's website: http://www.plunkyone.com.)
- The phrase "bad juju" is used occasionally in the British comedy series "The Mighty Boosh."
- Archie Shepp's 1967 album was titled The Magic of Ju-Ju.
- The lyric "JuJu eyeball" appears in the popular Beatles song "Come Together."
- The fourth studio album by Siouxsie & the Banshees is named Juju (1981).
- Alice Cooper has a song titled "Black Juju," and uses the lyric "juju eye" in his song "Zombie Dance."
- Sammy Hagar has a song titled "Serious Juju", located on album "Ten 13"
- Albertsons sells a derivative of Swedish fish called Ju Ju Fish.
- The Phrase "Bad JuJu" also appears twice in the animated feature Ice Age 2: The Meltdown during the dance of the mini-sloths.
- The term 'Juju' also appears in the video game, and its sequels,: "Tak and the Power of Juju".
- The term 'Bad Juju' is used by Hyde in That 70's Show after eating crows cooked by Fez.
- 'Juju' is used as a slang term for marijuana-filled cigarettes in Raymond Chandler's novel [i]Farewell, My Lovely[/i]. On page 73, Anne Riordan says 'I knew a guy once who smoked jujus...Three highballs and three sticks of tea and it took a pipe wrench to get him off the chandelier.'
- In the Walt Disney/Pixar movie Ratatouille one of the cooks, with a Haitian background, says, during a stressful moment, "This is bad juju." [1]
- 'Juju' is referred to as "the art of mentally controlling any enemy" in the Spider-Man story that appears in Marvel Super-Heroes Vol. 1 #14. This is accomplished using a "juju doll", implying a certain amount of confusion with voodoo.
John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born October 19, 1931) in Poole, Dorset, England. ...
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a spy novel by John le Carré, first published in 1974. ...
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ...
This article is about the television series. ...
This article contains episode summaries as well as directing and writing credits from Season 2 of the American medical drama television series Greys Anatomy. ...
The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real life Delta Force (1st Special Forces Operational Detachment - Delta). ...
Archie Shepp is an American jazz saxophonist. ...
The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as part of their first tour of the United States, promoting their first hit single there, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ...
Siouxsie and the Banshees were a British rock band that formed in 1976. ...
After the electronic bent of their last album, Siouxsie & the Banshees returned to a more guitar-based sound for their fourth album Juju. ...
Alice Cooper (born February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans four decades. ...
Samuel Roy Hagar (born October 13, 1947 in Monterey, California, USA), better known as Sammy Hagar (aka The Red Rocker), is an American rock guitarist, singer, and composer. ...
A typical Albertsons store. ...
Tak and the Power of Juju is a video game for PlayStation 2, GameCube, and the Game Boy Advance. ...
That 70s Show logo That 70s Show is a Fox Network television sitcom centered around the lives of a group of teenagers living in the fictional suburb of Point Place, near Green Bay, during the late 1970s. ...
A Cannabis sativa plant The drug cannabis, also called marijuana, is produced from parts of the cannabis plant, primarily the cured flowers and gathered trichomes of the female plant. ...
For other persons named Raymond Chandler, see Raymond Chandler (disambiguation). ...
Farewell, my Lovely, by Susie Cornfield, (published by Garret Books, London UK) is a collection of tails and tributes to much-loved, departed pets, including the author’s own Brains the MagnifiCat The book features stories from Jilly Cooper, David Blunkett and Ann Widdecombe and a foreword from the Daily...
For the company founded by Disney, see The Walt Disney Company. ...
Pixars studio lot in Emeryville Pixar Animation Studios is an American computer animation studio based in Emeryville, California (USA) notable for its seven Academy Awards. ...
For the animated film, see Ratatouille (film). ...
Usage in Military culture Juju is a term used in the United States military (especially in Infantry and combat arms) to describe a superstitious behavior which is believed to put a person at either a a greater risk of bodily or to protect them from harm. This term is almost always used in the negative context, i.e. “bad Juju”. The armed forces of the United States of America consist of the United States Army United States Navy United States Air Force United States Marine Corps United States Coast Guard Note: The United States Coast Guard has both military and law enforcement functions. ...
Infantry of the Royal Irish Rifles during the Battle of the Somme in World War I. Infantry are soldiers who fight primarily on foot with small arms in organized military units, though they may be transported to the battlefield by horses, ships, automobiles, skis, bicycles, or other means. ...
CARS is the Combat Arms Regimental System, under which the combat arms units in the United States Army were organized. ...
For other uses, see Superstition (disambiguation). ...
Juju as military slang is distinct from behavior which could reasonably increase or decrease a person's chances for injury. While not wearing a helmet can be considered “bad juju”, it is not because it leaves the head exposed but because the action seems tempts fate. Juju can also be assigned to signs such as unusual dreams or occurrences. It is often used in reference to behavior indicative of enemy activity, such as a lack of people in a normally crowded market. Juju also has a karmic element to it, especially when relating to people who have been injured. Treating an injured civilian, especially a child, is “good juju”. Stealing personal effects or making fun of a soldier that was injured or killed is considered to be “very bad juju”. This page is a candidate to be copied to Wiktionary using the Transwiki process. ...
A person wearing a helmet. ...
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Dreaming is the subjective experience of imaginary images, sounds/voices, thoughts or sensations during sleep, usually involuntarily. ...
Karmic is Nada Surfs demo EP. All the demos recorded in early 1995 and released in the same year. ...
Juju is the name of a Wayne Shorter Album recorded in 1964.
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