Mrs. W. E. Wilson (Wona) thinks that the second version of the story,
told by Jekyll, 70–72, is not a true negro form, because of the great
respect in which Jamaica negroes hold the rites of the established
church.
Compare Cronise and Ward, 133–145; Fortier, 24–27.
As a device for getting victims cooked and eaten, the story is related
to numbers 16 and 38 in this collection.