sorcery
37 Kiribati words
- tabunea
- Bingham an incantation, sorcery.
- Sabatier te tabunea: magical religious rites, sorcery, magic in general with special names for each kind.
- bunna
- Bingham a young coconut leaf when used in sorcery.
- Sabatier bunnia: immunize, to protect against evil spell or sorcery, to impose the punna.
- nouere
- Sabatier a certain sorcery.
- tabowa
- Sabatier (2) a kind of sorcery.
- kakaiaine
- Sabatier sorcery to get a woman.
- maniwaira
- Sabatier an evil spell, sorcery.
- kioura
- Sabatier sorcery (to arouse love).
- noumamaninga
- Sabatier a sorcery to make forget.
- rubeirubei te nang
- Sabatier (3) sorcery to avert same.
- iterabuaka
- Sabatier sorcery for vengeance, enmity.
- bainrangirang
- Bingham a fetish or instrument of sorcery.
- tobina
- Sabatier to massage (with sorcery formerly).
- karake
- Sabatier to do sorcery to discover a culprit.
- neinei
- Sabatier (2) term for an operation of sorcery.
- ruoia
- Sabatier sorcery in preparation for this dance.
- aintoa
- Sabatier te urianibati: sorcery to make strong.
- kamweuti
- Sabatier Nei Kamweuti: a sorcery to awaken love.
- waea
- Sabatier (4) sorcery using small roasted coconuts.
- nimatata
- Sabatier a small vessel or binobino used for sorcery.
- maraia
- Sabatier an evil spell, bad luck, magical charm, sorcery.
- matarara
- Sabatier fatal result of sorcery, evil spell, baneful day.
- karaiang
- Sabatier a kind of sorcery to avert or calm an enemy's anger.
- kawaia
- Bingham to subject one to sorcery for making his beard grow.
- katei koingira
- Sabatier to do sorcery to help bear pain, to relieve, to cure.
- tabeatu
- Sabatier to raise the head (of corpse), ceremony with sorcery.
- kabungiro
- Sabatier sorcery for dance (cover with shadows the opposing side).
- nimaerere
- Bingham a fish line composed of hair and coconut fibre, used in sorcery.
- kabimaramara
- Sabatier sorcery for fishing net, the biggest haul taken by net, eaten by all.;
- nama
- Sabatier nama, namanama: to thread on to string, to make sorcery to gain affection.
- kiaou
- Sabatier a creeping plant used for medicine, fertilizer for taro, object for sorcery.
- bekarekareka
- Sabatier a certain kind of sorcery formerly practiced by children, supposed to give them vigour.
- bonota
- Sabatier (magic) to hinder, to prevent, to immunize, to secure beforehand, to protect against bad sorcery.
- kabweari
- Sabatier a manner of fumigating people in sorcery ceremonies, a kind of perfumed fumigation of persons and things.
- anna
- Sabatier te anna ni bung: a kind of sorcery to bring back unfaithful partner, using something belonging to the child.
- bangota
- Sabatier a sacred place, covered with gravel and enclosed, used for sorcery and composing songs and dances, cemeteries and family tombs.
- atinikatoka
- Sabatier 1. a flat stone used as table on which were placed items of sorcery, gifts, necklaces, etc.; also used for hiding such things when leaving.
- wanre
- Sabatier to do this sorcery on..., by pointing the little finger (te ukire) towards person or things, to bewitch,... curse, to hinder success, to check, to make a project fail.