duppy

As the negroes are extremely superstitious, and very much afraid of ghosts (whom they call the duppy), I rather wonder at their choosing-to have their dead buried in their gardens; but I understand their argument to be, that they need only fear the duppies of their enemies, but have nothing to apprehend from those after death who loved them in their lifetime; but the duppies of their adversaries are very alarming beings, equally powerful by day as by night, and are not only spiritually terrific, but can give very hard substantial knocks on the pate, whenever they see fit occasion, and can find a good opportunity.

Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845

For those unfamiliar with Jamaican slang, a duppy is a ghost and the main character finds himself a duppy as he dies on the first page.

Funny books Tripp 2008

For those unfamiliar with Jamaican slang, a duppy is a ghost and the main character finds himself a duppy as he dies on the first page.

Archive 2008-03-01 Tripp 2008

A "duppy" in Jamaican folklore is a spirit creature, usually with bad intent.

Archive 2007-02-01 2007

Blown ridin more hard from thrash to down tempo with anti-duppy weapons of sonic death.

Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, 1963-2008 Dodie Bellamy 2008

Blown ridin more hard from thrash to down tempo with anti-duppy weapons of sonic death.

Archive 2008-08-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008

"Yah, yah," he roared, "me no 'fraid ob shark; I'se tink him ider one duppy or de debbil, for suah, when um touch me on de shin-bone!"

The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

I returned the coin to Noah, assuring him that I had no further need of it, and he went away well pleased, assured of the protection of the white man's duppy -- the token of the good spirits which he venerates as much as he fears the bugaboos.

Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

This aunt was an Obeah witch, the duppy, or devil ghost, that was her familiar, appearing as a great black dog that she called Tiger.

Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate 1879

Everybody fears the jumbie, or evil spirit that walks the night; and the duppy, the rolling calf, the ghost of the murdered one; all pray that they may never meet the diablesse, the beautiful negress with glittering eyes, who passes silently through fields where people are at work, and smiling on any one of them compels him to follow her, -- where?

Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate 1879