"duppy" meaning in Jamaican Creole

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          "english": "Are you afraid of ghosts?",
          "text": "Yuh fraid a duppy?",
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          "english": "The poltergeists are wrecking the place.",
          "text": "Di duppy dem a mash up di place.",
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          "english": "Once there were poltergeists in my home. I had trouble sleeping because of them […]",
          "ref": "2018, “Man uses obeah to chase duppies from house”, in The Jamaica Star (in English):",
          "text": "“Duppy did inna me house one time. Dem did a mek me couldn’t sleep […]”",
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          "word": "Blackheart Man"
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          "word": "Rolling Calf"
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