jumbien.

1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane i. 38 (note) This [sc. wild liquorice] is a scandent plant, from which the Negroes gather what they call Jumbee Beeds [sic].

1838 E. L. Joseph Warner Arundell I. xi. 99 I asked him if he thought it was a jumby (spirit).

1894 ‘A. Spinner’ Study in Colour iv. 47 To tremble over the terrible tales of the Jumbi and Duppies, that..terrify belated travellers.

1952 E. Mittelhölzer Children of Kaywana (1959) 75 He say this where our father used to sleep. Hannah, suppose we see his jumbie in de night?

1997 P. Melville Ventriloquist's Tale (1998) iii. 339 In the morning mists one of the children looked out of the window and thought they were jumbies and woke up the whole village.

1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane i. 38 (note) This [sc. wild liquorice] is a scandent plant, from which the Negroes gather what they call Jumbee Beeds [sic].

1802 H. Swinburne Let. 17 Feb. in Courts of Europe (1841) II. 339 I gathered to-day, a handful of Jumbee beads.

1956 Caribbean Q. 4 iii. 198 They also sold charms made of ‘Jumby beads’ (abrus precatorius and allied species).

2003 Amer. Forests Autumn 37 If you got home late at night and didn't have jumbie beads in your lamp..you had to walk into your house backwards or the jumbies would follow you in.

1862 R. Hunt Handbk. Industr. Dept. Internat. Exhib. 1862 II. 385 Bracelets and bags, made of the seed of what is called locally ‘jumbie beans’, but which are the seeds of Desmanthus virgatus, a species of mimosa.

1918 N. L. Britton Flora of Bermuda 169 Leucaena glauca..Jumbie Bean... Its seeds, strung on thread, are made into necklaces.

2011 R. A. T. George Trop. Veg. Production xi. 132 Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit.—jumbie bean, white popinac—jumbie bean is an erect semi-shrub-like plant.

1827 Trinidad Guardian 2 Oct. in L. Winer Dict. Eng./Creole Trinidad & Tobago (2009) 475/2 He face tan like Jumbee-bird Owl.

1969 I. McDonald Humming-bird Tree (1992) v. 171 A jumby bird hooted from one of the plum trees along the path of the road.

2011 E. Lovelace Is just Movie 232 The douens with their little children bodies..calling, hoot! Hoot! Hoot, like jumbie birds, as they ran through the forest playing.

1860 Dublin Univ. Mag. Nov. 614/1 The African race..have a curious belief that these disembodied beings take up their lodgings generally..in the lofty branches of the great silk cotton tree, which in consequence is often called jumbie tree.

1931 H. C. Sampson Rep. Devel. Agric. Bahamas iv. 19 Very great value is placed on the Jumbie tree (Leucaena glauca), for all types of stock which chew the cud.

2006 South Florida & Caribbean Parks Exotic Plant Managem. Plan & Environmental Impact Statement (U.S. National Parks Service) I. 277 Among these special plants are ‘magic’ and ‘jumbie’ trees or plants, related to beliefs about spirit trees in West Africa.