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Trinidadian and wider Caribbean folklore

1 record of Trinidadian and wider Caribbean folklore — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.

SoucouyantShapeshifter · Trinidad and Tobago · Latin AmericaA Creole and African-diaspora night figure of Trinidad and the wider Caribbean: by day an ordinary neighbour, by night a skin-shedder who travels as fire and takes blood. Not a generic European vampire; salt, rice-counting, and dawn belong to this tradition’s own logic.