Juju
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- For other uses, see Juju (disambiguation).
A Juju in West Africa refers to the supernatural power ascribed to object or fetishes. Juju can be used pejoratively and can be synonymous with witchcraft. The beliefs surrounding juju, such as the manipulation of good and bad spirits may be origin of the American Voodoo. Also, some West Africans become indoctrinated into Christianity and Islam, they refer to aspects of traditional African religions as juju.
[edit] Pop culture trivia
• Juju is a term used in the ABC series Grey's Anatomy, in the episode "Supersition". In this instance it is used as a good-luck ritual before surgery, in the form of hot chocolate.
"Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery refers to these good luck tokens via the West African term "juju", injecting a much-needed note of ethnic and racial diversity to a show that was, until now, desperately lacking in that regard."
"Don't diss the juju from wherever it comes." - Meredith Grey
