bagi

plural bagis

1. A voodoo sanctuary or sacred chamber.

   “This is a very important time for Vodou” Papa Baz tells me as he works in the bagi.

   2015, Manbo Paula Wedo, Manbo Jumbo, page 370

   2 more examples

   The bar was deserted, but when Max Beauvoir and I entered the hounfour there were three of them, sitting with their backs to the ochre walls of the bagi.

   1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 89

   The various fronds are fixed in front of the doors of the bagi and the peristyle as well as to the potomitan […].

   2013, Patrick Taylor, Frederick I. Case, editors, The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions: Volume 1, page 1065