Why this word is great
BOCOR — [Noun] A voodoo practitioner who wields both malefic and beneficial forces, a sorcerer straddling the line between healer and hexer. From Haitian Creole bòkò, rooted in the Fon bókɔ́nɔ̀ ("soothsayer"). Unlike a houngan (who serves benevolent spirits exclusively) or a shaman (a cross-cultural term for healers), the bocor is duality incarnate—a figure who may mend with one hand and curse with the other. It is the flicker of candlelight on a jar of grave dirt, the whisper of a name to the wrong spirit, the sudden fever that follows a stranger’s sidelong glance—proof that power, like the world, is neither kind nor cruel, but both at once.