Usage examples (5)

• Everyone dresses in white on Reveillon, to honour the sea/macumba goddess, Iemãja
• Indeed, it's our memory of Sarno's film, with its arousingly percussive score, that pointed out the inadequacy of macumba SEXUAL's anemic and overly aerated synth score,...
• Según el cónsul de Haití en Brasil, George Samuel Antoine, la culpa había sido de la macumba y de la raza: "O africano em si tem maldição.
• According to Haiti's consul in Brazil, George Samuel Antoine, the fault lay with macumba, or African spiritism, and the race: "The African himself is damned.