Mumbo-Jumbo

High Priest of Mumbo-Jumbo looks as if he was the lord of the earth.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

High Priest of Mumbo-Jumbo looks as if he was the lord of the earth.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

City; thence overland to the great inland tobacco-mart of Santiago; and so back to Puerto Plata and Monte Christo, where the commission ceased its labors, being discouraged by the Haytians from an exploration within their domain; while Mr. Hazard, resuming his capacity of private citizen, took his life in his hand and ventured into the proud Mumbo-Jumbo republic.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

From the terrifying African God, "Mumbo-Jumbo," to the artistic bronze representations of the Deity of the nations of the East all are marked with awe-enforcing ferocity and ugliness, instead of by the soul-inspiring lineaments of love and beauty.

Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield

Neither Ingersoll nor Bradlaugh saw that the crudest Mumbo-Jumbo idolatry of the savage does really stand for some point of rapport between the seen and the unseen, and that, so long as the mysterious sacredness of life is acknowledged and reverenced, it matters little by what symbols we acknowledge it and do it reverence.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

If you are quite sure that the ladies in Brixton, the moment they give up cooking, will beat great gongs and blow horns to Mumbo-Jumbo, then I will agree that the occupation is at least human and is more or less entertaining.

All Things Considered 1905

We cringe to words; we fawn before proverbs; we are the paid sycophants of Mumbo-Jumbo.

"Emerson the Individualist" 1903

Is not this as childish as the childishness of the savage, and barbarians, in their Mumbo-Jumbo conceptions?

A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga William Walker Atkinson 1897

Mumbo-Jumbo itself if it gave him the slightest hope of protection from Madame Riennes.

Love Eternal Henry Rider Haggard 1890

A man at home who should turn all Yorkshire into one wheatfield, and annually burn his harvest on the altar of Mumbo-Jumbo, might impress ourselves not much otherwise.

A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson 1872