Suriname folk-lore

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b) Yorka.¹

1 The Yɔrka, in the Bush as on the Coast, are the ghosts. The fact that the word zombe occurs in the body of the song is interesting in view of the Haitian word zombi as applied to certain special ghosts, or the West Indian djombie, a generic term for the spirits of the dead.

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A di' a dis' [si]man Zom-be [A-]- (26 times)