Lexicographical Neighbors of Jumbie
Literary usage of Jumbie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1867)
"... jumbie—jumbie all around us." My friend laughed, and I scarcely noticed the
remark, in the hurried preparations for starting which followed. ..."
2. Camps in the Caribbees: The Adventures of a Naturalist in the Lesser Antilles by Frederick Albion Ober (1886)
"Soon again, he jumbie take to go in ze canoe all about ze coast; ... One day ze
canoe swamp an' ze jumbie make to drown, but ze Carib men he no drown ..."
3. Around the World by Angelo Heilprin (1894)
"Their belief in the last is very curious ; according to them a jumbie is an invisible
... When the assumed form, animal or bird, is killed, then the jumbie ..."
4. Treasure by Gertrude Singleton Mathews (1917)
"... an orchid's home—logs are the green-rooms of the fairy people—with mushrooms
which form " jumbie " or fairy umbrellas, red ones jumbie-tables, ..."
5. The US Virgin Islands Alive! by Harriet Greenberg, Douglas Greenberg (2006)
"jumbie is the West Indian word for ghost. Trunk Bay Take a Surrey bus to jumbie
Bay because the lot holds only six cars. Fifteen minutes from Cruz Bay, ..."
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