duppies

It is called DupKiller, and is named after cute voodoo evil spirits that are known as "duppies", I think.

IOL Technology 2010

Some say that dogs can predict a death and see duppies or spirits Senior 2003:155-156.

The Dog Daze of Peace Corps 2009

See the soulful sonic youth chantin down the duppies way from the stanzas of boasts.

Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, 1963-2008 Dodie Bellamy 2008

See the soulful sonic youth chantin down the duppies way from the stanzas of boasts.

Archive 2008-08-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008

"You'd tire soon enough of duppies and bone folk," chuckled Mother Patience.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

In such sullen darkness, even a white person might half-hear duppies moaning in the unseen reeds.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

"No, no, massa, dey duppies," cried the guide; "de echo nebber take so long to come back to us."

The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

"Come along," said Archie; "if they were duppies they will be afraid of interfering with white people, and if black fellows, they are still less likely to trouble us."

The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

From their language they appear to believe that hell is a place of torment, and that the devil reigns there; and surely they could not be afraid of duppies (or ghosts) without some idea of a future state; and indeed, nothing is more firmly impressed upon the mind of the Africans, than that after death they shall go back to Africa and pass an eternity in revelling and feasting with their ancestors.

Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845

It's duppy night, featuring stories of duppies and ghosts.

Cayman Net News Daily Headlines 2009