jumbie
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English
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Etymology
From Kongo zumbi (“fetish”). Doublet of zombie.
Pronunciation
Noun
jumbie (plural jumbies)
- (chiefly Caribbean) A ghost or evil spirit.
- Coordinate terms: duppy; see also Thesaurus:ghost
- 1882, G.H. Hawtayne, “Occasional notes: West Indian Folk-lore”, in Timehri: Being the Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, volume 1, page 145:
- If one wants to see “jumbies” “duppies” ghosts, all that is necessary is to put in your eye the tears from the eyes of a pie-bald horse. It is no use explaining to a negro that what he has taken to be a “jumbie” or apparition, is a tree or rock or other natural object.