"bocor" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 47:",
          "text": "“The bokor who knows the magic can make anyone a zombi—a Haitian living abroad, a foreigner.”",
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          "ref": "1989, James A. Michener, Caribbean:",
          "text": "The corpse is buried in all solemnity, and two days later, at dead of night, the bocor digs it up, stops feeding it salt, and has himself a zombie.",
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          "ref": "1995, Elizabeth McAlister, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, page 305",
          "text": "A bòkò is an entrepreneur, and has a reputation as a man who will “work with both hands,” that is, for healing and revenge."
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          "text": "It seemed to him that he was […] surrendering all agency and becoming hers to command, as if she were a Haitian bokor and he at lunch at Bergdorf Goodman had been administered the so-called zombie's cucumber which confused his thought processes and made him her slave for life.",
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