duppy

No duppy to hang around and haunt the living.

The duppy can only operate at night and will expect a reward on returning to its grave.

This is a song played for the duppy while he or she is told stories by the elders.

She tells the boys about the duppy in order to prevent them from acting mischievously.

First he saw a blonde woman who claimed to be a duppy, and now he heard voices.

The leader of the ceremony greets the duppy (spirit) and then the night song begins.

She uses her abilities to defeat an evil Obeah-man and his duppy.

After dat no duppy can do me harm.

In this episode, a duppy is discussed between a Caribbean woman and the two boys she has been hired to babysit.

Those who feared attack from a duppy would sprinkle tobacco seed in its path as a sure method of repulsion.

Rhyging continues to play a role in Jamaican culture as a duppy (bogeyman) used to scare children.

I suppose you're another duppy.

Originating in Central Africa, the duppy is part of Bantu folklore.

Apparently, I'm a duppy myself.

Yellowman released an album titled Duppy or Gunman.

Duppy is a Jamaican Patois word of Caribbean origin meaning ghost or spirit.

Duppy: facts are facts buddy.

A duppy can be either the manifestation (in human or animal form) of the soul of a dead person, or a malevolent supernatural being.

There were a few examples of 'duppy' being used as the verb 'to kill' so I could make the tentative conclusion that this is what it meant."

In those days, people would gather outside in the moonlight to sing, play games and relate Anancy and Duppy (ghost) stories.

Duppy Know Who Fi Frighten" - Elephant Man "

It's revealed that the duppy is Mi-Jeanne (Ti-Jeanne's mom).

The frog turns out to be a duppy, which comes to terrifying life when an unpleasant employer takes the liberty of looking uninvited through the servant's possessions.

Duppy Jamboree (Cambridge University Press, 1992)