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Jumbies This has not occurred to me but might as well have. When I was a little girl me and my friends, whenever the electricity when out in our town would go outside, meet up and tell each other stories about the dead, witches and evil spirits. This went on for years and some of my friends well one special one in particular would get nightmares and get woken up by ghost in the middle of the night. some nights as her mother told us she would wake up and have her hands hold by invisible hands and they would not let her talk she would not make any noises because as she told us she never could have talked while they were around her the bed shook wildly but when her mother came in the room there use to be these loud screams but when her mommy looked it never was her making them. I live in the Caribbean and I believe in them just like anyone else around here would. The ghosts were I live are call jumbies. Some are very evil and love the smell of Rum; some say and sometimes confessed that they beat you when you are drunk and you don't even feel it until the next day (this happens to drunken people on the whole) but they beat you so badly that the next morning you cannot even wake up. When this happens the dogs follow the person to where ever they are going to and they would howl and moan behind you. I have seen this happen and when I do my boyfriend would say "that one getting cut ass tonight". His step daddy has a problem with drinking and every weekend he goes, get drunk come home and wake up hurting all over. In the night you would hear his grandmother moaning and telling the jumbies to get out of her room, well my boyfriend says she usually fights them. I have seen the Montel show and Silvia says that old people and children see the dead more than anyone else, well I told her to just ignore them but sometimes you hear her talking to them. Early this year she misplace her hip. I was not there to help but my boyfriend told me that she was running out her bedroom and fell. She said one of them was running after her. It saddens me that they could actually harm me. Before I moved into my boyfriend's house, the night before we was having a going away sleep over because me and my boyfriend were moving out from one island to another, we were also leaving all our friends, well his cousins and brother that were there started telling me that I should be scared to go live there, I was wondering why, they did not seem like they were joking, well his cousin RJ told me that whenever he sleeps in my boyfriend's room there he gets Hagged ( which means beaten up in our slang) and he gets beat from something he cannot see. My boyfriend told me that it happens to him, and one night while checking on his grandmother (did I mention she is 93) they chased him from her room into his room and hagged him. They all told me what not to do to get them mad, including sleeping on your stomach, they like when you do because they slash your back with a whip like in the slave days. Note that the house they live in has a small house next to it that the grandmother says lived all her parents and grandparents and so on. They built the house in the land so I believe that these are slaves from the days that are angry and upset about their past. My mother also told me a story about how a Haitian man tried to sell her soul but because she was married and had changed her last name legally and spiritually they could not have the bargain made. I am a Dominican and my mother told me that if you go Haiti you will see people you know but are already dead just walking around like nothing she says this is when their souls are sold and they are trapped in the country with the person who bought them. I don't believe in VOODOO but I have heard about it a lot. When I was in school one of my friends that was in my class told me that her sister got possessed and that when this was going on her voice would change and while her mother was out, she tried to stab her older sister with a knife. She told me that when the exorcism was going on they told her to get out of the room because the demon or ghost can get inside her instead. I could go on all day. I have been reading your stories for quite a while and always wondered if I should share this with you, my believe is that if you mess with them they come for you, and I feel like talking about them opens a door, I don't really want to, but I am so curious. Could I get into it if I speak about it, can you please tell me if you know or heard anything about Jumbies? Because I have many more stories about them and how they use to treat some of my friends. If you want to hear anything else about them I am here to help. I have also been asking some of my friends about them and some could tell me but some are too scared to. Nicka Mart
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