Case file · Folklore / legend
Hurston among the Maroons
In 1936 Zora Neale Hurston did fieldwork in Jamaica, staying at Accompong with the Leeward Maroons and recording nine-night wakes, duppy beliefs and herbal medicine.
1936 CE · 18.23, -77.74 · status: official
The account
She published the results with her Haitian work in Tell My Horse (1938). The book is lively and personal, and its Jamaica chapters are an important record of 1930s folk belief.