Then you need some gris-gris pronounced “gree-gree”: some voodoo/hoodoo medicine that aims to ward off a problematic spell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bushman Way of Tracking God] Reference

Their paganism takes the form of gross superstition, as seen in their constant use of gree-gree charms and in their sassa-wood ordeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Liberia Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science] Reference

At this epoch the important fact is announced by the gree-gree woman to the purchaser or future husband, who, it is expected, will soon prepare to take her from the retreat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

If the gree-gree catches you you will be struck upon the brow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason] Reference

Betea will not seek us, for he naturally believes we were killed by the gree-gree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason] Reference

None dare lock their doors when the gree-gree walked, and only the King himself was invulnerable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason] Reference

But we must get out of here before dawn, run past the gree-gree if he is about, and make a dash for the open forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason] Reference

"The gree-gree!" he gasped, looking round in fear, while at that moment there sounded two ear-piercing blasts upon a horn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason] Reference

With noiseless tread we stole along the sacred grove and were nearly at the end when, without warning, the hideous gree-gree, with a fiendish yell of triumph, sprang out of some bushes upon us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason] Reference

27 This article has different names in different tribes; thus it is called a bian among the Fan, a tarwiz, gree-gree, etc., on other parts of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

"The gree-gree is out to-night!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason] Reference

As for Stedman, he still went bare-footed, still quarrelled with his colonel, still sketched the scenery and described the reptiles, still reared gree-gree worms for his private kitchen, still quoted good poetry and wrote execrable, still pitied all the sufferers around him, black, white, and red, until finally he and his comrades were ordered back to Holland in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference

He never imagined that the year 1773 would behold him beneath the rainy season in a tropical country, wading through marshes and splashing through lakes, exploring with his feet for submerged paths, commanding impracticable troops and commanded by an insufferable colonel, feeding on gree-gree worms and fed upon by mosquitoes, howled at by jaguars, hissed at by serpents, and shot at by those exceedingly unattainable gentlemen, "still longed for, never seen," the Maroons of Surinam.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference