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[broo-huh-ree-uh, broo-khe-ree-ah]

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noun

1. a form of witchcraft practiced in Latin America and parts of the West Indies, rooted in a blend of African and Indigenous traditional religions and later influenced by Catholicism.
  Prior to the Spanish colonization of both the Aztecs and the Taíno people, ��í�� was not stigmatized as being dark or evil.
2. Usually ��í�� a spell, curse, or other instance of this witchcraft.
  His recent trips have been afflicted with so many challenges that I almost wonder if there’s some form of ��í�� at work.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of ��í��¹

First recorded in 1830–40; from Spanish bruj(a) bruja ( def. ) + -��í�� -ery ( def. )

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They crystallize as you witness her onstage or in her music videos, conjuring a kind of pop-girl brujeria, with a look that says: I’m a grease-stained postapocalyptic baddie who is making art and dropping it low in the face of life’s paradoxes.

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Bomba Estéreo, “��í��” Don’t hate me — El Búho is not Latino!

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Other times it leaned into more Latino-specific concerns, such as comparing candidate Joe Biden to Latin American dictators or claiming that Black Lives Matter activists were using ��í�� — that is, witchcraft.

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When the contest was over, Aja performed two songs from a Halloween-themed EP they’d released the previous year and “��í��.”

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Carinés A. Moncada, the host, claimed that a co-founder of Black Lives Matter practiced “��í��” — witchcraft.

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bruja brujo

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