Virgin Island Tales and Legends

1. When you are having a social gathering and you want to give the cue to your guests to leave, you must put a broom upside down by the door and throw salt over the doorstep.
    
2. Trouble with jumbis (evil spirits)?  Keep a chicken, especially a shaggy one because spirits don’t like them. Or you can scatter ninety-nine grains of corn outside your door and the spirits will be preoccupied with looking for the 100th and will not come in.
    
3. If you hear a sound in the streets at night it is the ghost of a pirate clanking their chains.  (Not a hermit crab bouncing his shell along the pavement)
   
4. Point a pen at an evil spirit and it will leave quietly.
    
5. To begin your week right, your first customer should be the mother of a man child.
    
6. On moonlight nights you may hear the ghosts of pirates making merry.
    
7. In St. Croix, Judge Soctman’s murdered daughter’s spirit still walks at night.
    
8. Governor Peter von Scholten’s Creole mistress still walks on the staircase of their country palace, dressed in all her finery.
    
9. A barking dog is a prophet.
    
10. A white feather means a letter is coming in from a foreign port.
     
11. The Virgin Mary can be seen in fish scales taken off your dinner fish.*

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