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than a ghost; but sometimes he is spoken of as 

 " the Duppy," as if there were but one, and then 

 he seems to answer to the devil. Sometimes he is 

 a kind of malicious spirit, who haunts burying- 

 grounds (like the Arabian gouls), and delights 

 in playing tricks to those who may pass that way. 

 On other occasions, he seems to be a supernatural 

 attendant on the practitioners of Obeah, in the 

 shape of some animal, as familiar imps are supposed 

 to belong to our English witches ; and this latter 

 is the part assigned to him in the following "Nancy- 

 story : " — 



" Sarah Winyan was scarcely ten years old, when 

 her mother died, and bequeathed to her consider- 

 able property. Her father was already dead ; and 

 the guardianship of the child devolved upon his 

 sister, who had always resided in the same house, 

 and who was her only surviving relation. Her 

 mother, indeed, had left two sons by a former hus- 

 band, but they lived at some distance in the wood, 

 and seldom came to see their mother; chiefly from 

 a rooted aversion to this aunt; who, although from 

 interested motives she stooped to flatter her sister- 

 in-law, was haughty, ill-natured, and even sus- 

 pected of Obeahism, from the occasional visits of 

 an enormous black dog, whom she called Tiger, 

 and whom she never failed to feed and caress with 

 marked distinction. In case of Sarah's death, the 

 aunt, in right of her brother, was the heiress of his 

 property. She was determined to remove this ob- 



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