"jumbie bead" meaning in English

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          "text": "“Dat too much. You pick de jumbie bead by de wayside, and run piece o’ string through dem, an’ you chargin’ me four dallaz? You got to be crims-crams. You crims-crams?” I asked.",
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          "ref": "2012, Robert Wyndham Nicholls, The Jumbies’ Playing Ground, page 12:",
          "text": "In the Eastern Caribbean, Abrus seeds (Jumbie beads, John Crow beads in Jamaica) are made into necklaces and bracelets to serve as protection against Jumbies and malevolent forces.",
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