Maiombola
nounpl.pluralReviewed
Portuguese definitions
- 1
- Sorcery by means of which a living person becomes inanimate, an automaton.
- State of being enchanted.
- Witchcraft; magic.
- Note: Said of persons whom, according to popular belief, sorcerers deprive of life through the diabolical power of their spells and whom, by the same means, they resurrect to do with them as they please; and, once resurrected, they walk and speak like the living, yet retain the coldness of a corpse.