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Pocomania|pəʊkəˈmeɪnɪə|
Also with lower-case initial.
[Origin unknown: prob. Hispanicized form of native name, with second element interpreted as mania.]
A Jamaican religious rite combining revivalism with ancestor-worship and spirit possession; the cult in which this rite is practised. Also attrib. Hence pocoˈmaniac, an adherent of this cult; pocomaˈniacal a.
[1929M. W. Beckwith Black Roadways 176 Revivalist and Obeah Man unite in the particular religious cult known as the Pukkumerian... The Pukkumerians hold their meetings near a grave-yard, and it is to the ghosts of their own membership that they appeal when spirits are summoned to a meeting... ‘They jump and dance and sing and talk in a secret language because the spirits do not talk our language.’] 1938Z. N. Hurston Voodoo Gods (1939) ii. 10, I went to the various ‘tables’ set in Pocomania, which boils down to a mixture of African obeah and Christianity enlivened by very beautiful singing. 1957F. Henriques Jamaica x. 184 Of the specifically native cult groups Pocomania is the most powerful and active. Ibid. 185 Native churches..incorporated a degree of physical enthusiasm, evinced in dancing, violent singing, and clapping... It is from this type of activity that such cult groups as Pocomania arose. 1957Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Oct. 612/4 The second part of the book is a study of contemporary Jamaican life... He deals with..the significance of cult-groups such as the Pocomaniacs. 1959A. Salkey Quality of Violence ii. 36 He told them that the Jamaican celebration of Pocomania closely resembled Haitian Voodoo. Ibid. iv. 54 There were about twenty-five people gyrating and uttering Pocomaniacal prayers. 1971J. Brunner Honky in Woodpile iv. 31 They broke up religious ceremonies, in particular pocomania, rites of possession using the yoma-xi drug. 1974L. Watson Romeo Error i. iii. 80 In Zambia, traditional healers cast out evil spirits by holding a patient's head under a blanket and over a smoking brazier, where he is forced to hyperventilate by breathing very rapidly and shallowly... The pocomania ceremonies in Jamaica are built round ‘tromping’, which is a rhythm of foot-stamping and peculiar breathing sounds. 1976Boot & Thomas Jamaica 82/2 When..the Pocomaniacs feel the spirit quickening in them, they jump and shout and testify till they get so drunk with righteous heaven-sent electricity they froth at the mouth. |