blue devils

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Their group has organised workshops, where youngsters can come to learn about blue devils and other aspects of Carnival, including wire-bending to make costumes.

From BBC

The “blue devils” then gather at the town’s crossroads, spitting fake blood, to terrify the children of their neighbors, or of visitors from the island’s nearby capital of Port of Spain.

From The New Yorker

“I’m well, but you sound like you’ve got a bit of the blue devils!”

From Time

The blue devils were drawn up in formation in the middle of a big meadow cupped within hills.

From Project Gutenberg

Archibald, duke of Argyle, was haunted by blue phantoms—the origin of our epithet for melancholy, "blue devils."

From Project Gutenberg