A meaning of the phrase forced itself upon the attention; and an emotional listener's fetichistic mood might have ended in one of more advanced quality.

耳边听着，不由自主地就想起句话的意义；要是富于感情的聆听者有物神崇拜的思绪，就会升华到高的境界。

His evidence was the precise slit in the victim's neck and a body drained of blood—a divine tribute that is condemned as juju, or black magic, in West Africa.

他给出的证据是受害人脖子上精确的切口和鲜血流尽的躯体—一责为juju(某些西非部族所用的物神)的“神圣”礼物，或者可称为西非的巫术。