{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas146.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas146.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas146.htm","text":"Sarah Findley, Santa Cruz Mountains.\nAn ol' man an' a wife was travelling going on walk when they hear a nice music was playing an' the ol' man say to his wife, \"O Quasiba,[2] hear dat sweet music singing over yonder. I like\n[2. Two school-mistresses in Bethlehem, Santa Cruz Mountains, gave the following list of \"born-day names\" which belong to negro children in Jamaica according to the day of the week upon which they are born. See Jekyll, int. x (l. C.).\nAn old woman who was telling me of some obeah practises assured me that the obi-man (sorcerer) did not use a man's common name when he wanted to bewitch him, but his \"born-day\" name.\n| | Boys | Girls | \n| Sunday | Quashy | Quashiba | \n| Monday | Quaco | Juba | \n| Tuesday | Cubena | Cuba | \n| Wednesday | Cudjo | Bennie | \n| Thursday | Quaw | Abba | \n| Friday | Cuffy | Pheba | \n| Saturday | Quamin | Benneba. | \n]\n{p. 177}\nto know where dat music come from.\"--\"Ol' man, you tak time walk an' we soon hear where dat music from But Bruddie, dat ol' Cumbolo dat was singing las' night!\"--\"Den you mus' come let we dance de Cumbolo, Susan, we all a Cumbolo!\" (sing and dance)--\n Su-san, da'we all a Cum-bo-lo. Sus-an, da'we all a Cum-bo-lo.[1]\n[1. The music was recorded by a colored boy who was organist in the church at Bethlehem. The dance (also called \"calimbe\") is performed at wakes, two men holding a couple of sticks parallel while a third dances upon them to the strains of the song.]","title":"146. The Cumbolo.","type":"page"}