Who remembers the story of the john crow on the coffin in the early 1970's? There were "sightings" reported all over the island and each such reported sighting of a self propelled coffin with a john crow on top sent the named community into a state of panic! I remember when it was reported to be on its way into Treasure Beach: Judgment!!! :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuhPDU7AMvY
(MR BROWN)Bob Marley
Sorry the wrong Mr.Brown i was trying to post Bob Marley song relating to the above posting,must\ve cross-up somewhere
Guess that story was fabricated by someone who knew that it would drive the weak- of- heart into a panic.
Ever heard of ' belief kill and belief cure' ? ……and what about the ghost stories they told us as kids?
Duppy in white without head, duppy calling out your name while you were asleep…and of course the Black Art/ Heart man who would lay-wait you in the bushes ?….and of course your head would swell or grow when a duppy was near.
I remember back in the day when someone dies and they would put a white cloth over their face while they were laying in their coffin. It was pretty scary. Days after the burial there was always someone to profess that they had seen the deceased walking at nights.
Thank God and thanks to electricity and car lights and the smell of gasoline, someone like me was never able to experience any of this.
TB, I kind of wondered when I saw the title and the saw the video. lol.
Here's the link you were going for, I think. Its one of my favorite songs of his.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amGI5T0JGDc
Thank u TBNet.I heard the story was used in Kingston at the market to lower people from their goods so other could rob them ,it was put together by some con artist.
Earl we all know that everything has an explanation so let me see if this will help.
A certain Funeral Parlor had two funerals in an area somewhere in Clarendon, but had one available hearse. so they took up both dead in the one hearse, drop off one casket(coffin) on the bank of the road and went down a lane to deliver the other.
The body must have sent up an attractive odor to Mr. John Crow so he came down sat on the casket (coffin).
Now here is the funny part.
The casket sitting on one of those Parlor trolly must have been a bit pivot and when Mr. Crow sat on one end (the road a down hill)it roll off the bank and down the road.
Ever see a one man fisherman manned his boat?. That's what it looks like from a distance.
You guys can call me a liar and I will agree because I wasn't there.
Earl, that story sounds like a fabrication, but sometimes diseased persons are kept so long before internment, that they begin to smell and attract a johncrow or two.
Well, Bowl, Raymond, I don't know how it got started (so one story is as good as another) but it certainly took on a life of its own back then! :-)