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Definition of Duppy
1. a ghost [n DUPPIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duppy
Literary usage of Duppy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke (1904)
"The duppy. After a person has been dead for three days it is believed that a
cloud of smoke will rise out [of] the grave, which becomes the duppy. ..."
2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"This duppy is a curious being, capable of assuming various forms of men and other
... It is said that the duppy can attack and ruin both man and beast. ..."
3. Negro Nobodies: Being a Series of Sketches of Peasant Life in Jamaica by Noël de Montagnac (1899)
"€A duppy box myself 'pon Richmond Hill last year,' observed Scott ... •Scotty
and all see duppy upon Rich- 68 Negro Nobodies mond Hill. ..."
4. Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Ring Tunes, and by Walter Jekyll, Alice Werner, C. S. Myers, Lucy Etheldred Broadwood (1907)
"At death the God-given spirit flies up upon a tree, and goes to heaven the third
day. The other spirit remains on earth as duppy. Its abiding place is the ..."
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