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.