| 词条 | Yumboes |
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DescriptionYumboes are the spirits of the dead and, like many supernatural beings in African beliefs, they are completely of a pearly-white colour. They are sometimes said to have silver hair.[3] They stand about two feet tall. The Yumboes live beneath the Paps hills and come out to dance in the moonlight. They feast on large tables, waited on by servants who are invisible except for their hands and feet. Yumboes eat corn (which they steal from the humans) and fish (which they catch on their own). They invite both natives and foreigners to their feasts. BackgroundThe only source for yumboes is Thomas Keightley's book The Fairy Mythology. Keightley received his account from a woman who had lived on Goree Island, off the coast of Senegal, when she was a child. She had heard about the yumboes from a Wolof maid. Keightley remarked on the yumboes’ resemblance to European fairies. However, they are also examples of the ancestral ghosts described in many African countries.[4] In popular cultureOn Pottermore, yumboes appeared as African house elves and the mascots of Senegal’s national quidditch team.[5] References1. ^"Yumboe" is a Lebou word. Although the Lebou people speak the Wolof language, the Wolof language itself comes from the Lebou people, it was their original language. Goree is also Lebou country not Wolof. Various tribes also inhabit(ed) Jolof (Jallof). {{Africa-myth-stub}}2. ^Keightley, Thomas. "The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries", George Bell and Sons (1892), pp. 495-496.[https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Fairy_Mythology.html?id=atoUZqxPZYIC][https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41006/41006-h/41006-h.htm] 3. ^Allardice, Pamela. Myths, Gods & Fantasy. ABC-CLIO (1991), p. 227. {{ISBN|978-0874366600}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=8Po3AAAAMAAJ] 4. ^{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/mythologyofallra71gray|title=The Mythology of all races ...|last=Gray|first=Louis H. (Louis Herbert)|last2=Moore|first2=George Foot|last3=MacCulloch|first3=J. A. (John Arnott)|date=1916|publisher=Boston, Marshall Jones Company|others=Duke University Libraries}} 5. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/history-of-the-quidditch-world-cup|title=History of the Quidditch World Cup - Pottermore|work=Pottermore|access-date=2018-08-28|language=en}} 2 : Wolof mythology|West African legendary creatures |
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