She tucked the gris-gris bag back into her pocket. From Wordnik.com. [Black Dust Mambo] Reference
You are about to set sail with some new gris-gris. From Wordnik.com. [The Bushman Way of Tracking God] Reference
It was as if someone had put a gris-gris on him, yes. From Wordnik.com. [A Call to Arms]
Take a black marking pen and write G-G for gris-gris on your left pinkie. From Wordnik.com. [The Bushman Way of Tracking God] Reference
Augustine gave her back the gris-gris bag, then coiled the pendants and their chains into the palm of her hand. From Wordnik.com. [Black Dust Mambo] Reference
Kallie tried to stand, hoping against hope that, despite the still-present thrumming, the gris-gris bag had been the problem. From Wordnik.com. [Black Dust Mambo] Reference
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
Carry your flag with you at all times, for your tiniest fingernail carries a message, a declaration that there is gris-gris at hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Bushman Way of Tracking God] Reference
So the Ya-Yas fly to New York on a mission, make an intervention, and bring Sidda home to the land of gumbo and gris-gris to face her demons. From Wordnik.com. [Titanic Performer] Reference
No broken, haunted captive lived to flee the jackal-born terrors of Nirvana, where the King of the Living Dead, a strange, gleaming-eyed scientist, ruled with the dread hand of ancient gris-gris. From Wordnik.com. [The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna] Reference
These folks grew up on gris-gris and know how to cast a spell. From Wordnik.com. [JamBase] Reference
She told fortunes and healed the sick, dispensing charms and potions called gris-gris. From Wordnik.com. [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
With razor wire and fragmentation grenades and tesla coils and wolfbane and garlands of voodoo gris-gris. From Wordnik.com. [Ace of Spades HQ] Reference
There are, naturally, voodoo shops in the French Quarter that sell gris-gris, statues, fetishes, incense and masks. From Wordnik.com. [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Haley Barbour of Mississippi and Mark Sanford of South Carolina have likewise put the gris-gris on their states 'shares. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessReport.com stories: RSS Headlines] Reference
I need to know what's in the box because gris-gris has been regrettably absent from my personal explorations of spirituality. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Hey Saints fans -- you might have your Voodoo and "gris-gris", but try beating THIS act of good karma on NFC Championship weekend!. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Norseman] Reference
The mythical Ol 'Boudreaux was feared by generations of French kids, because he might put the gris-gris on them if they misbehaved. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3] Reference
On a day when the Saints looked destined to suffer their first defeat, their gridiron gris-gris suddenly and improbably kicked in again. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference
He commonly wears dresses of white or blue cotor, or silk, with a great many gris-gris, covered with plates of gold or silver, sewed about his dresses. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805] Reference
You may not buy into voodoo or make sense of the gris-gris Dr John sings about, but New Orleans exudes a special quality that charms people into coming back again and again. From Wordnik.com. [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
This village was formerly the residence of the kings; and to this day, when the King wishes to go to war, he always goes there to have his gris-gris (amulets) made, and to prepare himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805] Reference
The Love Potion No. 9 candle - a secret recipe that includes peach and rose scents - is infused with a special gris-gris that Sumrall swears is effective for attracting romance, plus a voodoo chant (optional) printed on the label. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference
These people "have much veneration for a sort of mistletoe, which they call tob; they carry leaves of it on their persons when they go to war as a preservative against wounds, just as if the leaves were real talismans (gris-gris).". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference
You can actually go to a store and buy gris-gris and veve designs and spells! ". From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
There’s a voodoo shop on Dumaine Street in the Quarter that will make you a gris-gris bag. From Wordnik.com. [The Bushman Way of Tracking God] Reference
Some of the R&B standards that I’ve known forever from Dr. John the Night Tripper and his satchel of gris-gris and Mama Roux!. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » Allen Toussaint] Reference
He called it a gris-gris or something. From Wordnik.com. [Clean Kill]
Maybe I needed a gris-gris for protection. From Wordnik.com. [Violets Are Blue]
I could use some good gris-gris, I thought. From Wordnik.com. [All That Glitters] Reference
A gris-gris bag. From Wordnik.com. [Black Dust Mambo] Reference
I put gris-gris on all the opposing quarterbacks. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference
"gris-gris". From Wordnik.com. [katrina and the waves] Reference
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