nounconjure man

• A sorceress, especially one who practices voodoo.

  ‘It takes place in the spacious, quiet home of an ancient conjure woman supposedly aged 285, who has the ability to heal people's souls.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The ghost, the conjure women, and the thrasher all mark moments in the text when characters can actively choose one epistemology over the other.’
  • ‘Some of the grown women in the film not only act as storytellers but also as conjure women whose psychic abilities can change developments and perceptions.’
  • ‘She ignores her advice and asks a local conjure woman, whose bayou shack seems untouched by 20 th-century American accoutrements, to arrange the death of her father.’
  • ‘The woman who closes this paragraph is a conjure woman; she conjures desire in her male listener (for the listener and the teller of her tale is male here).’
  • ‘He kept an old conjure woman among his palace staff…’
  • ‘Within the plot, she is important as a model of female strength for the character, a conjure woman and one of the novel's twin protagonists.’
  • ‘Even more than by planes, however, he is enchanted by his mother, an ‘evil conjure woman,’ drawing his own artistic power from the feminine.’
  • ‘Significantly, he is safe as the tree as long as he has her protection; when this conjure woman can no longer guard him, the tree is felled for lumber.’
  • ‘Back in the slave days, the conjure women used to say that the state's destiny was firmly fixed on an awful night long before, when stars fell on Alabama—in a huge, scarring meteoric shower.’
  • ‘Once before in his life, he had been crushed by a love that he could not understand, and his mother had procured some mojo from a conjure woman in New Orleans that had freed him.’
  • ‘She called silently to the conjure women who had lived before her, whose voices had hummed in her head since the day she was born.’