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Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Colombia: Duppies

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
Posted 5 June 2008 12:33 GMT

“The silk cotton tree…is traditionally associated with duppies and jumbies, spirits who inhabit its vast, buttressed trunk, and who exact their revenge on anyone foolish enough to take an axe to the tree, or otherwise inflict damage”: Trinidadian blogger Nicholas Laughlin is a duppy for a day.

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