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  • In Brazil, a variation on the Yoruban traditions is called Candomblé, and it’s called Macumba in Trinidad.

    Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002

  • In Brazil, a variation on the Yoruban traditions is called Candomblé, and it’s called Macumba in Trinidad.

    Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002

  • Yolen's short film "Macumba," about an American couple who accidentally stir up the forces of black magic in Costa Rica.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • Or Tim Murphy throwing to batterymate Leonel "Macumba" De Los Santos?

    unknown title 2008

  • When selling our edible wares on the beach, we'd step around the remains of Macumba rituals.

    The Feijoada From Ipanema Nani Power 2012

  • Huey is the coolest dude in town, his New York spitfire riff always appearing relaxed, even though he speaks a mile a minute and his choice of music is noisy, to say the least: Jane's Addiction, Guns N' Roses, Grandmaster Flash, Macumba a band that combines samba with, um, bagpipes.

    Rewind radio: Trevor Nelson; Gemma Cairney; Huey Morgan; Today – review 2011

  • Os Mutantes and Of Montreal turn "Bat Macumba," a piece written by Messrs.

    At Long Last, a Red Hot Return to Rio Martin Johnson 2011

  • I attended a Macumba black-magic ceremony on night in a hot room where everyone dressed in white as a squawking chicken lost its head to a blade that flashed silver, then crimson.

    Lea Lane: Ten Extraordinary Things About Rio, Including a Man Called H 2009

  • Some day, said Latz, he would like to raft right down the Finke River in flood, from its beginnings south of the Tanami Desert, all the way to the Simpson Desert, and on down the Macumba River into the vastness of Lake Eyre.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Some day, said Latz, he would like to raft right down the Finke River in flood, from its beginnings south of the Tanami Desert, all the way to the Simpson Desert, and on down the Macumba River into the vastness of Lake Eyre.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

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