As a small boy in Barbados, coming naked out of the sea toward the rock where he had left his clothes, he was startled w

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
  1. c. 1910 stated · preferred
    Source A Riddle ¶39"when I was a boy in Barbados", told in A Riddle (nid 1445)
Place
Persons
Told / reported
  1. 3 November 1969 stated
    Source A RiddleA Riddle (nid 1445), telling 1445-1, told 1969-11-03
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.)