http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog/2006/04/14/of-kites-and-bobolees/ The Caribbean's first podcast - almost live from Trinidad and Tobago! Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:56:00 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog/2006/04/14/of-kites-and-bobolees/comment-page-1/#comment-440984 Bert Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:10:14 +0000 http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog/?p=412#comment-440984 Where can I get instructions on how to make a Trinidad Mad Bull kite? Thanks Where can I get instructions on how to make a Trinidad Mad Bull kite? Thanks

]]> http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog/2006/04/14/of-kites-and-bobolees/comment-page-1/#comment-13278 Georgia Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:02:37 +0000 http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog/?p=412#comment-13278 No you didn't, you were too busy beating the tambourine! No you didn’t, you were too busy beating the tambourine!

]]> http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog/2006/04/14/of-kites-and-bobolees/comment-page-1/#comment-13277 Jonathan Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:53:09 +0000 http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog/?p=412#comment-13277 For the record, I didn't join in the singing of "The Bobolees' Picnic". For the record, I didn’t join in the singing of “The Bobolees’ Picnic”.

]]> http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog/2006/04/14/of-kites-and-bobolees/comment-page-1/#comment-13275 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Don’t go near the sea on Good Friday, and other Caribbean Easter traditions Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:37:40 +0000 http://www.caribbeanfreeradio.com/blog/?p=412#comment-13275 [...] Caribbean Free Radio took a less impressive ready-made kite to the Queen’s Park Savannah in Trinidad and also made a failed attempt to find a Good Friday bobolee, an effigy of Judas Iscariot which is traditionally hung in a public place and beaten. The bobolee is not, however, the weirdest Caribbean Easter tradition: that distinction would have to belong to the Good Friday prohibition against sea-bathing, which Barbadian Campfyah recalled in her Good Friday post: I vividly remember the no going to the Beach on Good Friday. Boy that was a definite for the villagers, don’t dare be caught near the beach. Also the breaking a fresh egg out in the sun at pricesly midday. whatever shape the eggs form is your destiny for the coming year. Eg. a ship or anything resembling a boat means you going away. [...] [...] Caribbean Free Radio took a less impressive ready-made kite to the Queen’s Park Savannah in Trinidad and also made a failed attempt to find a Good Friday bobolee, an effigy of Judas Iscariot which is traditionally hung in a public place and beaten. The bobolee is not, however, the weirdest Caribbean Easter tradition: that distinction would have to belong to the Good Friday prohibition against sea-bathing, which Barbadian Campfyah recalled in her Good Friday post: I vividly remember the no going to the Beach on Good Friday. Boy that was a definite for the villagers, don’t dare be caught near the beach. Also the breaking a fresh egg out in the sun at pricesly midday. whatever shape the eggs form is your destiny for the coming year. Eg. a ship or anything resembling a boat means you going away. [...]

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