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Re: mary seacole
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackStar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It looks like Seacole's mother may have been an obeah woman although they don't call her that.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">Mary Seacole was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1805. Her father was a Scottish soldier, and <span style="font-weight: bold">her mother was a practitioner of traditional Jamaican medicine</span>. More... </span></div></div> </div></div>
<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">Seacole's mother was a "doctress", a healer who used traditional Caribbean and African herbal remedies. </span></span>
That's not really obeah though is it? </div></div>
I will have to disagree with blackstar here.
while Derek is right that obeah working is commonly seen as doing evil. Healing is not to be automatically classified as obeah.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackStar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It looks like Seacole's mother may have been an obeah woman although they don't call her that.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic">Mary Seacole was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1805. Her father was a Scottish soldier, and <span style="font-weight: bold">her mother was a practitioner of traditional Jamaican medicine</span>. More... </span></div></div> </div></div><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">Seacole's mother was a "doctress", a healer who used traditional Caribbean and African herbal remedies. </span></span>
That's not really obeah though is it? </div></div>
I will have to disagree with blackstar here.
while Derek is right that obeah working is commonly seen as doing evil. Healing is not to be automatically classified as obeah.
for 2.5 years while I attended UWI in the early 1980s. I still have good friends from Seacole days. Also had Chancellor boyfriend for a short time... so so you know I was all that! 
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