Footnotes

*1 Because the proper names for Plough Monday and the Confraternity of the Plough use the British spelling of the word plow, the British spelling has been retained for this word and its variations in all instances. All other words with alternate British spellings have been Americanized.

*2 A “hand” is a bag containing various magical items, appropriate to the desired function of the “hand.”

*3 Maroons were escaped slaves living in self-sufficient communities in remote places and largely unmolested by the authorities. Obi is equivalent to the “instruments of Obeah”, or a horn containing items that might be in a “Hoodoo hand,” “Nation Sack,” or “Mojo” in American parlance.