Obeah: Witchcraft in the West Indies (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Obeah: Witchcraft in the West Indies

Tm; following sketches of West Indian negro life and character were written and strung together during a sojourn of some years in the colonies, and treat princi pally ot' Grenada, which may be taken as a fairly representative type of a West Indian colony.

For the benefit of those (and their name is legion) to whom the name West Indies only vaguely recalls mixed ideas on yellow fever, rum, slaves and buccaneers, I will remind them that Grenada is an English colony, forming one of the Windward group, that it is a small place about the size of the Isle of Wight, and that it contains some fifty thousand in habitants in all shades, who collectively think no small amount of themselves.

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