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"John Crow" is the Jamaican name for the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura), a common scavenger bird. Culturally, it symbolizes death, ugliness, or evil, frequently used in Jamaican, or Patois, as an insult (e.g., "dirty John Crow"
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