Rolling Calf
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See also: rolling calf
Jamaican Creole
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Pronunciation
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[edit]Rolling Calf
- a calf demon with fiery eyes which makes its presence known by rattling chains
- As a yute, mi cousin dem use fi tell me nuh fi guh a bush a night-time, for Rolling Calf deh a bush.
- When I was little, my cousins used to tell me not to enter the forest at night, because the calf demon was there.
- 2020, Simone Morgan-Lindo, “Woman believes demons killed her granddaughter”, in The Jamaica Star[1] (in English):
- “And hear this - fi months nuhbaddy nuh walk back desso, because as far as they were concern - a rolling calf was on the loose […] ”
- Now hear this - nobody went there again for months, because as far as they were concerned, a calf demon was on the loose […]
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 476