Date (happened)
c. 1910
"when I was a boy in Barbados", told in A Riddle (nid 1445)
Told / reported
3 November 1969
A Riddle (nid 1445), telling 1445-1, told 1969-11-03
Persons
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.