Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
Any one who has ever paid a flying visit to New Orleans probably knows something about those various culinary preparations whose generic name is “Gombo”--compounded of many odds and ends, with the okra-plant, or true gombo for a basis, but also comprising occasionally “losé, z...
“The good servant’s tail is cut off.”--Reference to the condition of a dog whose tail is cut off: he can’t wag his tail, because he has no tail to wag![17]--[_Martinique._]
4. Part 4[82] Anyone who has ever seen a heap of live crabs in a basket, will comprehend the fun of this saying--intimating that the sinews of the gawkish person are tangled up as hopele...
3. Part 3[45] The Martinique dialect gives both _oti_ and _outi_ for “où”: “where.” Mr. Bigelow gives the curious spelling _croquez_. The word is certainly derived from the French, _accr...
1. Part 1Any one who has ever paid a flying visit to New Orleans probably knows something about those various culinary preparations whose generic name is “Gombo”--compounded of many odds...
5. Part 5[118] This proverb is certainly of West Indian origin, though I first obtained it from a Louisianian. In consequence of the depredations committed by rats in the West-Indian can...
6. Part 6[146] In the Guyane patois, they say: “_Ça qui gadé gran boi yé kôlé pa brûlé yé_.” (_Celui qui regarde les grands bois avec des yeux colères ne les brûle pas._)