...ges and kidnaps girls on the behalf of witches. In certain cultures of the Caribbean (Bay Islands of Honduras), the term denotes forms of sorcery and witchcraft
[[Category:West African folklore]]
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...oo''' (Lagahoo or Loup Garou) is a kind of werewolf in Trinidad and Tobago folklore.
[[Category: Caribbean mythology]]
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The '''Douen''' is a spirit from Trinidad and Tobago folklore,
*Julie Carthy. ''Folklore in the Oral Tradition, Fairytales, Fables and Folk-legend''. Yale-New Haven
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...h. This phenonemon is widely believed in by people in the English-speaking Caribbean states that were colonized by the British and which practised "Obeah", a fo
...aica in the north and as far south as Trinidad have had a long held set of folklore that include the jumbie.
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'''Papa Bois''' is the old man of the forest in Trinidad folklore and is known by many names, including "Maître Bois" (master of the woods)
[http://www.triniview.com/TnT/Folklore.htm Trinidad View]
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'''Gang Gang Sara''' was a famous witch in the folklore of Tobago island.
[[Category: Caribbean mythology]]
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...ma Dglo''' is one of the lesser known personalities of Trinidad and Tobago folklore.
[http://www.triniview.com/TnT/Folklore.htm Trinidad View]
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...'''Mama Dlo''' or '''Mama Dglo''' is a water spirit in Trinidad and Tobago folklore.
[[Category: Caribbean mythology]]
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The '''ciguapa''' is a magical creature similar to a [[mermaid]] in the folklore of the Dominican Republic.
[[Category: Caribbean mythology]]
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'''La Diablesse''' is a devil woman in Trinidad and Tobago folklore.
[http://www.triniview.com/TnT/Folklore.htm Trinidad View]
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In Jamaican folklore, '''duppies''' are restless spirits of the dead that are believed to haunt
...is word of West African (Bantu language) meaning ghost or spirit. Jamaican folklore contains a significant amount of duppy stories in various forms. Jamaican s
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...ogy)|group]]. The academic and usually [[ethnology|ethnographic]] study of folklore is known as [[folkloristics]].
...als; only in the 20th century did ethnographers begin to attempt to record folklore without overt political goals. The [[Brothers Grimm]], Wilhelm Grimm|Wilhel
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The loogaroos are often witches, in the folklore of Haiti and other islands in the West Indies, who made pacts with the devi
[[Category:Caribbean mythology]]
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...es in Manaus, in the central Amazon, and often draws on Amazon history and folklore in his works.
...rians that emerged about 30 million years ago and roamed the Americas, the Caribbean, and Antarctica. With large claws that curled under and faced backward when
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A '''zombie''' is traditionally an [[undead]] person in the Caribbean spiritual belief system of [[voodoo]]. Essentially a dead body re-animated
In 1937, while researching [[folklore]] in Haiti, Zora Neale Hurston encountered the case of Felicia Felix-Mentor
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The [[Siren]]s of Greek mythology are sometimes portrayed in later [[folklore]]; in fact in some languages the name ''sirena'' is used interchangeably fo
Tales of mermaids are nearly universal. The first known mermaid [[folklore|stories]] appeared in Assyria, ca. 1000 BCE. Atargatis, mother of Assyrian
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...sts throughout the United States a widespread system of African American [[folklore|folk]] magic belief and practice known as [[hoodoo]]. The similarity of the
...an religious traditions and was retained in modified form by slaves in the Caribbean who were held captive by Catholics, but in the USA, most of the slaves came
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...extremely variable in different traditions, and are a frequent subject of folklore, cinema, and contemporary fiction.
...mainly bite the victim's neck, extracting the blood from a main artery. In folklore and popular culture, the term generally refers to a belief that one can gai
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The '''Kraken''' is an enormous [[sea monster]] in Norwegian sea [[folklore]], which would sometimes attack ships and feed upon the sailors. It was sai
A Kraken is a monster in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. It is summoned by Davy Jones to destroy the ships carryi
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Anne planned and wrote large parts of The Tale of the Body Thief while on a Caribbean cruise, recalling later that she became Lestat, figuring how to escape from
...usual assault on Dora after his freedom from Memnoch? I am speaking of the folklore of the veil. I am speaking of a blood connection. Of course, Lestat's blood
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