 What do you mean by shadow-catcher?' 'Him ha coffin, (a little coffin produced), him set for catch dem shadow.' 'What shadow do you mean?' 'When him set obeah for summary (somebody), him catch dem shadow, and dem go dead'; and too surely they were soon...  Sketches and Recollections of the West Indies - Page 2451828 - 330 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Barclay - Black people - 1827 - 596 pages
...catch dem ' shadow.' ' What shadow do you mean ?' ' When ' him set obeah for summary (somebody), him ' catch dem shadow and dem go dead ,•' and too surely...abolition to the importation of more African superstition. In a few years it will most likely be extinct ; meantime, it is quite in consistency with Mr Stephen's... | |
 | 1830 - 480 pages
...little coffin produced], " Mm set for catch dem shadow." — " Wbat shadow do you mean Í"-*-" When him set Obeah for summary" (somebody) " Aim 'catch dem...their shadows, by whatever means it was effected. The practice of it, is now made punishable by death. I WAS NOT FALSE TO THEE. I WAS not false to thee,... | |
 | Frederic William Naylor Bayley - West Indies, British - 1830 - 1388 pages
...for catch dem shadow.' What shadow do you mean ?' ' When him set obeah for summaryi (somebody) 'him catch dem 'shadow and dem go dead;' and too surely...their shadows, by whatever means it was effected." When this practice was found to be attended with such dreadful consequences, the governments of the... | |
 | Frederic William Naylor Bayley - Hurricanes - 1833 - 780 pages
...shadow.' What shadow do you mean?' ' When him set obeah for summary' (somebody) 'him catch dem'shadow and dem go dead;' and too surely they were soon dead...their shadows, by whatever means it was effected." When this practice was found to be attended with such dreadful consequences, the governments of the... | |
 | Charles Joseph Galliari Rampini - Black people - 1873 - 218 pages
...as the great one, to whom the smaller serpents are subjected. — Prichard, p. 527. (somebody) him catch dem shadow and dem go dead.' And too surely...their shadows, by whatever means it was effected." 1 The same superstition was found by Mr. Waddell in full force in Calabar ; and it may assist in enabling... | |
 | Frederic G. Cassidy, Robert Brock Le Page - Foreign Language Study - 2002 - 578 pages
...'What shadow do you mean?' ' Whin him in obi ah for iummsry (somebody;, him calch dim shadow and dim go dead' ; and too surely they were soon dead, when he pretended to have caught their shadows. SHADOW-CATCHING vbl sb. Releasing a SHADOW that has been bound by obeah and restoring it to its owner.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1827 - 500 pages
...for catch dem shadow." " What do you mean ?" — " When him set obeah for summary, (somebody,) him catch dem shadow and dem go dead ;" and too surely...their shadows, by whatever means it was effected. — Barclay's Slavery in the West Indies. 448 OF THE ENGLISH MAGAZINES, NO. 12.] BOSTON, MARCH 15,... | |
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