ASK relatives and neighbours about Iris Jacques and they will tell you about the lady who would stand outside her gate, bag in hand, looking for someone, anyone, to give that bag to.
Inside the bag would be a piece of meat, a live chicken or even a piglet. "One thing about 'Goddy' you know, she nuh want to have anything that gives anybody trouble," one of Jacques' many godchildren, Paulette McIndoe said.
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| Iris Jacques would give away any animal she had that would give trouble. (right) Iris Jacques and her son Earl Jacques |
"If she have a fowl - sometimes you see Goddy at the gate with something in a bag. And you hear her say 'you want this fowl yah?' and I would ask her why she giving it away and she would whisper 'it start to give trouble'," McIndoe said. "Goddy, give away the fowl.
"Sometimes mi pass and mi seh 'Goddy how you stand up out here so? Goddy have a little bag in her hand. Guess what Goddy have? A piece of meat, looking for somebody to give it to. And sometimes she say 'is not you mi want to see today enuh. You see Cherry?' And I will go and call Cherry and Cherry come and get her parcel. She always try to give more than what she ask for. Goddy don't ask for anything, she always try to have something to give. She don't ask. You have to feel like giving Goddy something. But she always have something to give. She just wants to give something," McIndoe said. Read more:
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