Can someone please tell me what a duppy is? There is an article in the Gleaner today on how to keep the Duppy away. I think it is a spirit. Am I right? Are they good or bad?

whoa!!! girl duppy a bad sumpum fe see, believe me, you dont want fe see one,

and that means Duppy, alias (ghost, spirit, poltergeist aparition, rolling calf, spook ) more or less the same thing, ALL BAAAD !!!!

It's all in the mind.There is no such thing as a duppy.
It's believed that it's the work of the devil. He takes on the appearance of a person who has recently died ( especially one whose soul is considered to to be in hell.

As a matter of interest, it is believed that duppies are non-existent now-a-days because of the hugh amount of car lights and electricity.Remember ,they are creatures of the dark and they do not like light!!!!

A duppy can be of evil or good nature.....

It's possible the word descended from the Taino word 'opi/opia' for non incarnate frightful spirit. Anyone with Cassidy and LePages Dictionary of The Jamaican Language? check what they say.

Another and more modern useage is in reference to an incarnate being who is considered empty or lacking Itality/Vitality..."cho, him a duppy!".

Maybe 'canada' can tell us what "duppy know who fi frighten" means!

There are superstitions, "old wives" tales and folk beliefs in every culture, Jamaica included.
Many people city and country, educated or not, believe in duppies living in cottonwood trees, in the morning dew, in the ocean where babies under age 3 are never bathed as well as obeah, white and black. No John Edwards-style tv charlatans, however.

Tee if yu think duppy good, you should camp out one night in duppy hole in Sandy bank

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Davy Jones' Locker is an idiom for the bottom of the sea — the resting place of drowned seamen. It is used as a euphemism for death at sea (e.g. to be "sent to Davy Jones' Locker"); Davy Jones is a nickname (used primarily by sailors) for what would be the devil of the seas.

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Origin
The earliest known reference to Davy Jones occurs in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett, published in 1751:

This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes, ship-wrecks, and other disasters to which sea-faring life is exposed, warning the devoted wretch of death and woe. [1]
He is described as having saucer eyes, three rows of teeth, horns, a tail, and blue smoke coming from his nostrils.

The term appears to have been common among sailors, as the name Davy Jones appears often in popular nautical literature.

As is common with slang, the exact origin of "Davy Jones" is hard to discover. These explanations have been proposed: [2] [3]

A pub owner named David Jones who used to incapacitate hapless drinkers in his ale locker, and send them off aboard ships.
Duffer Jones, a notoriously myopic sailor who often found himself overboard.
Davy comes from Duppy, a West Indian term for ghost, or from Saint David, also known as Dewi, the patron saint of Wales, while Jones comes from the prophet Jonah.
A euphemism for a "Devil Jonah"; Jonah being a term referring to any bad luck on the ocean.
David Jones, a pirate on the Indian Ocean in the 1630s. - Jan Rogoziński, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Pirates, Ware, Hertfordshire, 1997
The last two do not explain the locker. The name may have originated in Wales, as David Jones is a common name there.

Duppy has a long tradition in Treasure beach, I believe that it came about as a means of controlling the younger heads. People would get not go out late at night by themselves because "duppy a walk". Eventually those children grew up being afraid of duppy and then the next generation were born afraid of duppy. I guess it has become a part of the treasure beach culture, although its kind of dying out (no pun intended). People would get even more scared after someone in the community dies, and especially if somebody see something in the moonlight, word would spread like wildfire sey duppy down a burying ground or Issac pond bottom. Does anybody remember Me One? It was a well put together artificial duppy that would sit on a corner in lewis town. It cause many people to stay home at night back in the old days. Even after people knew it was a fake, they were still scared of it. I miss those days. Anybody know any good treasure beach duppy story? Anybody remember the Abna Puss?

NO SUCH THING AS A DUPPY.I LOST MY PARENTS AND AND IF THEY WOULD SHOW THEMSELVES TO ME I WOULD NOT BE AFRAID.I WOULD THINK OF THEM AS MY GUARDIAN ANGELS.PUT GOD IN YOUR HEARTS READ YOUR BIBLE AND DO NOT THINK OF "DUPPY"

Ghost Buster, I am from Sandy Bank but I have never heard of this Duppy Hole? where exactly is this?

Just recently in Treasure Beach, and everyone was still talking about Duppy, One guy told me the place he is staying at he sees duppy there every night. Another one told me that the house he is staying the duppy is there every night sitting on the porch, he said the dead man won't leave his house him gone to hell.