Pocomania

Treasure Beach Forum: Dem Good ole Days : Pocomania
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By TB on Saturday, March 06, 2010 - 07:51 am: Edit Post

I remember as a kid in the early seventies when the Pocomanian will come at the beach and have their revival meeting and they will always warn us about fishermen going to be lost at sea but their favourite message were (wo unto the inhabitants of the sea coast)as a kid it used to drive the fear in me. I think one of the woman who use to preach was call Madda,lots of drumming,chanting ,and people getting into the spirit,anyway it was quiet a revival i am just wondering if such an event happen in Treasure Beach still.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By turey on Saturday, March 06, 2010 - 05:06 pm: Edit Post

Trucks with Poco people would pass us often in Kingston during the fifties and sixties TB. They left a trail of spirited drumming behind.

Like John Canoe, by the eighties things started to fade. I don't know if there is enough water in Bedwards pool in the Hope River to do a baptism now.

Funny!? That's about when the god Tee Vee took our collective attention too.

Modern 'Science' indeed eh.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Curious on Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 12:23 pm: Edit Post

Anyone knows if there's a connection between Poco and Obeah, or even Santeria? I remember seeing Poco only wearing white garbs, while, for example, Santerias wear only white during their first year of initiation.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Reminisce on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 09:26 am: Edit Post

Yes, The Pocomania religion still exists even till today. I remember when I was in JA about 2 years ago, there was a 'Madda' warning. It still drives the fear in me. Everyone in earshot stopped what they were doing and listened carefully to her warnings. Sometimes some of them came through, whether by coincidence or what - I don't know. They love to wrap their heads with a red cloth and stick a pencil in it, and they are usually in a white gown.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kris on Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 06:42 am: Edit Post

This Cult came to my country (Panama) many years ago. In Panama they call it Jumpy Jumpy. During the construction of the Panama Canal a lot of West Indians came to Panama to work on the canal especially Jamicans. My mom was a devote jumpy jumpy imagine Pocomania but the service is in Spanish my mom was a Madda of the table.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Christie. on Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 07:23 pm: Edit Post

Do Jamaicans still practice obeah? Are Celtic black magic practices used in some areas? This may be names on parchment, nails in wood/clay likenesses. This is called sympathetic magic. The use of botanical, animal and mineral substances has been commented on by some researchers in 18th Century Jamaica.

A great source of occult practices in the WI are found in the books of Zora Hurston.

I practice natural magic. The use of our god given faculties and facilities with love and humour.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Leo Africanus. on Wednesday, February 02, 2011 - 11:00 am: Edit Post

Christie, the lack of response to your questions means either that we really are a Christian country or....

Cuba; Santeria, Haiti; Voodoo, Jamaica...

Dig deep enough and you'll find what's going on.

Hint: Many Africans refer to Jamaica as 'Little Africa'.

Yet it's always an individual choice. Truth, denial, deception or sleep.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By T.B on Tuesday, February 08, 2011 - 07:26 pm: Edit Post

does the pocomania still come to treasure beach, just wondering.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Curious on Friday, January 06, 2012 - 09:16 pm: Edit Post

This is an old post but still topical.

A couple days ago I had a conversation with a friend who told me that he saw a madda in Jamaica who told him everything that was going on in his life back in the USA. He said she was a total stranger but was 100% accurate in how she described his circumstances.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By just asking on Friday, January 06, 2012 - 11:52 pm: Edit Post

Hi curious did she talk to someone you know?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Curious on Sunday, January 08, 2012 - 07:01 pm: Edit Post

Just Asking, my friend was brought to the madda by a relative. I skeptically asked him if this relative had spoken to the madda before he went there and he said no.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By just asking on Monday, January 09, 2012 - 09:29 am: Edit Post

Curious ,I am not buying your relative stories he/she is pulling your legs.Take everything you hear with a grain of salt.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By TBG on Monday, January 09, 2012 - 10:00 pm: Edit Post

Is pocomania still around.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Curious on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 08:25 pm: Edit Post

This is a friend Just Asking, not a relative. I take your point but I'm not as dismissive as you are. It's true that there are sometimes people who are gullible, and who will stretch the truth. However I also believe that there are many mysteries in this Dimension that we do not understand, much less even know about. I admit I know little of such things and am always willing to explore with an open mind.

Believing that there are people in this World who have extraordinary abilities means that we can open our minds to the shaman in the Amazon, to the bush doctor in the African jungle, to the Native American medicine man, or to the yogi in India who claims the ability to transcend what we think of as reality.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Spooky Dude on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 03:25 pm: Edit Post

Well curious, if the average man in Jamaica today cannot transcend reality in some way 'im kana daak!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By christian on Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 01:01 pm: Edit Post

Do not believe in them.They always predict things that will or should be happening in different areas.For instance, they have predicted on more than one occasion that tidal wave would wash away the people of the sea-coast and to this day nothing of the sort has happened.[edited by TB.Net]


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Curious on Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 11:25 pm: Edit Post

True enough christian, but I've also heard of a group of people who believe that the Earth was created in seven days, and that it is really only a few thousand years old.

Speaking of prediction, this group has also been waiting for over two thousand years for a Rabbi from Nazareth to return from the dead. That's amazing, isn't it? Imagine a dead person coming back to life! I agree: don't belive it.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By turey on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 04:42 pm: Edit Post

Do we tend to favour the incredible over the reasonable? More exciting? Still how much do we really know?

eg: The Earth will continue around the sun for millions of years, humans or not....Boooring.

The Earth will be swallowed by the Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy on Dec 21 2012....Wow! Did you hear......

PS: nothing gwine happen, but my grandson's first birthday party.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By tom and jeanie on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 06:34 pm: Edit Post

So Jah bless you and your grandson!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Earthling on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 08:09 pm: Edit Post

Hay guys madda used to say wow unto the unbeliever so be ye careful.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By turey on Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 10:06 am: Edit Post

Thing is Earthling, believe in which version of Reality as proclaimed by who?

Or else! Right?

And thanks T and J.