Maybe both, indirectly, as we saw, Morwen.

The term charactonym does not cover the whole scope of devices that, for example, modern novelists use for "speaking names". The link was just to give you some idea.

"Old" folksongs are sometimes underestimated in their usage of indirect language, which we rather expect from literature. Well, in other cases they are overestimated, as amply exemplified at Mudcat.

Bottom line: our Jamaica expert is still wanted.