🕊️🪶 Folklore Month Feature – Moko Jumbie 🪶🕊️ October is Folklore Month in Trinbago, and we are celebrating by bringing our folklore spirits to life on screen! These videos are adapted from the book Folklore Spirits of Trinidad & Tobago by Richard A. J. Ramirez. Graceful, towering, and otherworldly — the Moko Jumbie walks high above the earth, his wooden stilts lifting him closer to the heavens. In the old African tongue, “Moko” means healer, while “Jumbie” means spirit. Together, he is the S

Tradition Thursday. Moko Jumbie The Moko Jumbie is a masked figure walking on tall stilts and dancing in the streets during Carnival. He is said to watch over his village, and due to his towering height, he is able to foresee danger and evil. His name, Moko literally means “diviner” and he would be represented by men/women on towering stilts and performing acts that were unexplainable to the human eye. In one remote tribe, the Moko rises from a regular man's height to the skies fluidly with no h