Obia, also spelled Obeah, in west African folklore, a gigantic animal that steals into villages and kidnaps girls on the behalf of witches. In certain cultures of the Caribbean, the term denotes forms of sorcery and witchcraft, usually overpowering and extremely evil. Potent or bewitched objects buried for the purpose of bringing misfortune upon a particular party are sometimes known as obia, and use of the word itself has in some areas been prohibited by law. A specialist using the power of obia is called an obiama or obiaman.
Seems to me that the girls have been kidnapped and OBEY what they are told by the Witches. Isn’t that why the world is under the thrall of Sorcery = Pharmacy RIGHT NOW?
What ever happened to a good: Bugger off, bloke! ????
nZombie is reported to be the oldest of all religions arising our of another jurisdiction in Africa and I have seen NOTHING to dissuade me that that religion has come to its full culmination in this time.
BARHack Obiama then!
This topic is an obvious invitation for some language microscopying..
Lets make the fast and short one first.. (the furlog long coming beneath later)
In Norse languages anything "opposit" is implied by placing an "O" in front of it..
In actuality no PhD in llanguages and especially no one of thoses PhD's for Norse languages yet have relevantly displayed that the "O" is as the glyph and the way to form the sound graphically performed with your mouth as a small o-ed circle to utter the clean vowel sound:made has the obvious symbolically paired analog:
It is similarily litterally "encirceling to lock in" what it focused on..
Luck in a litteral Norse way would be said: "O-luck" meaning "the luck is encircled and unreachable*..
The anti-pose projection of making" o-prepositions" in Norse languages" is a generally understood and an honoured concept by all Scandinaves!
(DanishmNotwegian has it as "U" as is sounding near close enough like the Swedish "O")
The "bei" is homophone close enough for "bay" as Pat pointed out..
Let's assume the mere-made (mermaid) sea pirates assumes "channel ilsands" (treasure island hiding loot stolen from genetal land crabs) in a "bay of their safe harbor" they then likely will "treasure it" and thus hold it as a "No-bay" for you and me..
To make a "No-bay" in Norse would be littetated as a (-n) "O-bay"!!!
O boy!
What do you give me for that!!
O-thanks may be?