Psychic Phenomena Of Jamaica. Chapter Vii : CHAPTER VII CONCLUSIONS IN JAMAICA, from time to time, we hear of cases of table-rapping, planchette-writing, ouija board, and other manifestations, pretty much as they are reported over the rest of the world, except that the circles in which they are held are restricted to a narrow group which h...
Psychic Phenomena Of Jamaica. Chapter I : CHAPTER I ASHANTI CULTURAL INFLUENCE IN JAMAICA THE Reverend William James Gardner, a Congregational Minister, came to Jamaica in 1849, and after nearly a quarter of a century of observation and research published in 1873 "A History of Jamaica", which is characterized by its scholarly...
Psychic Phenomena Of Jamaica. Chapter Iii : CHAPTER III APPLIED MAGIC DESPITE the fact that obeah is clearly defined as regards its origin in Ashanti witchcraft, and its early development among the Jamaica slaves, in course of time it has become so confused with voodoo and other superstitious practices that now the word is used as a generic...
Psychic Phenomena Of Jamaica. Chapter Iv : CHAPTER IV POPULAR BELIEF IN GHOSTS SR HENRY HESKETH JOUDOU BELL, who recently retired as Governor of Mauritius, spent many years in the British Colonial Service in the West Indies, where he began his career in 1882. Writing of his experiences in Granada and describing Quashie's "love...
Psychic Phenomena Of Jamaica. Chapter Ii : CHAPTER II JAMAICA WITCHCRAFT IN "Notes and Queries", London, January 25, 1851, we find the following communication. "Can any of your readers give me some information about "obeism"? I am anxious to know whether it is in itself a religion, or merely a rite practised in some religion in Afric...
Psychic Phenomena Of Jamaica. Bibliography : BIBLIOGRAPHY Space restricts us to such works as may be found in the Boston College Library, Chestnut Hill, Mass. ANONYMOUS. Acts of Assembly, passed in the Island of Jamaica from 1681 to 1737, inclusive, London, 1743. Acts of Assembly, passed in the Island of Jamaica from 1681 to 1754, inclusive...
Psychic Phenomena Of Jamaica. Documentation : DOCUMENTATION CHAPTER I--ASHANTI CULTURAL INFLUENCE IN JAMAICA (1) W. J. Gardner, "History of Jamaica", London, 1873, Preface, p. 4. (2) ditto, p. 184. (3) Edward Long, "The History of Jamaica", London, 1774, Vol. II, p. 472. (4) ditto, p. 473. (5) ditto, p. 474. (6) ditto, p. 474. (7) ditto, p...
Psychic Phenomena Of Jamaica. Chapter V : CHAPTER V FUNERAL CUSTOMS ONE of my fondest memories of Jamaica, and carrying me back to the closing days of the year 1906, has already been told in "Whisperings of the Caribbean". As you leave Falmouth, travelling east, and abandon the shore road, the ascent leads you up through the Trelawney...
Psychic Phenomena Of Jamaica. Chapter Vi : CHAPTER VI POLTERGEIST IT WAS about three years ago that Lord Olivier, a former Governor of Jamaica, wrote to me: "The occasional outburst of this 'poltergeist' phenomenon in Jamaica is remarkable. I investigated with some care the evidence as to one case which occurred when I was in Jamaic...
