As a small boy in Barbados, coming naked out of the sea toward the rock where he had left his clothes, he was startled when a black fisherman mending his nets called out that he was going to castrate him - and the joke revived a vivid memory of the same thing actually happening to him in the distant past.
Date (happened)
c. 1910
unresolved
- c. 1910
Place
Persons
Told / reported
- 3 November 1969
Sources
Source
- A Riddle ¶39 (He said to me, “Come here, I’m going to castrate you!” But memory fades. I recalled it vividly at that moment and I was scared to death at what he said.)