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jumby Chiefly W. Indies.|ˈdʒʌmbɪ|
Also jumbee, jumbi, jumbie, zumbi.
[ad. Kongo zumbi fetish.]
A ghost or evil spirit among American and West Indian Blacks. Cf. zombie.
1871C. Kingsley At Last II. x. 56 Out of the mud comes up—not jumbies, but—a multitude of small stones. 1876R. F. Burton Two Trips Gorilla Land II. 124 There was no danger of the Zumbi, or ghost. 1887W. H. Bentley Dict. & Gram. Kongo Lang. 505 The fetish Zumbi is supposed to bring good luck with it. It sometimes consists of a bundle of charms, at others it is an image, or even an animal. 1891‘J. Evelyn’ Baffled Vengeance iv. 60 The ‘jumbies’ (evil spirits) that haunted the ill-omened spot. 1894‘A. Spinner’ Study in Colour iv. 47 To tremble over the terrible tales of the Jumbi and Duppies, that..terrify belated travellers. 1918C. W. Beebe Jungle Peace (1919) vii. 138 Sam had formerly been a warden in the Georgetown jail, and rumour had it that he left because he saw ‘jumbies’ in the court where one hundred and nine men had been hanged. 1951E. A. Mittelholzer Shadows move among Them i. ii. 18 A pencil drawing of an ugly face—the face of a jumbie as imagined by Berton. Ibid. ii. ix. 239 Believe in fairies and ghosts and jumbies and goblins. 1955Caribbean Q. IV. i. 32 Caribs..delight in telling as a matter of fact how they met a certain ‘jumby’ in the road after dark. 1973Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 21 Sept. 25/3 To comb your hair at night is an open invitation for the Jumbies to call. (Jumbies are West Indian ghosts.)
b. attrib., as jumby-bead, the hard seed of any of several West Indian plants; jumby-bean = jumby-tree; jumby-bird, a bird of ill omen, esp. an owl; jumby-tree, any of several West Indian trees, esp. the lead tree, Leucæna glauca.
1802H. Swinburne Let. 17 Feb. in Courts of Europe (1841) II. 339, I gathered to-day, a handful of Jumbee beads. 1871C. Kingsley At Last II. xiii. 197 Hedges of dwarf Erythrina, dotted with red jumby beads. Ibid. xvi. 276 The scarlet flowers of the Jumby-bead bush. 1934J. Rhys Voy. in Dark i. vi. 66 The niggers say that jumbie-beads are lucky, don't they? 1956Caribbean Q. IV. iii. 198 They also sold charms made of ‘Jumby beads’ (abrus precatorius and allied species).
1920Britton & Millspaugh Bahama Flora 162 Leucaena glauca... Probably native of continental tropical America. Jumbie Bean.
1871C. Kingsley At Last II. xiii. 206 The obnoxious bird was not an owl, but a large goat-sucker, a Nycteribius, I believe, who goes by the name of jumby-bird among the English Negros. 1893A. Newton Dict. Birds ii. 471 Jumby-bird, a Negro name for almost any kind that is of bad omen, but especially for an Owl. 1923E. Ingersoll Birds in Legend 168 The ‘jumbie-bird’, or ‘big witch’, of the West Indian region..is the dead-black ani, a kind of cuckoo. 1960J. Bond Birds W. Indies 120 Barn Owl Tyto alba. Local names: Owl; Screech Owl; Night Owl; Death Owl; Death Bird; Jumbie Bird.
1928M. Summers Vampire 265 The occult silk-cotton tree (bombax ceiba, often known as the Devil's tree or Jumbie tree). |