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Atlas NoctisA nocturnal atlas of folklore

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Trinidad and Tobago

One entry in one subarea: 1 at grade B. The points fall where the entry was collected, not where the story is set. Hover a point to see the subarea, click it to open the entry.

The anglophone and francophone Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Haiti, Grenada, Barbados, the Bahamas and Louisiana
BSoucouyantTrinidad and Tobago — The anglophone and francophone Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Haiti, Grenada, Barbados, the Bahamas and Louisiana

The entries, in brief

The folklore of Trinidad and Tobago documented in this atlas: Soucouyant. Every entry is placed on the map at the point where it was collected or attested — not where the story is set — and carries its declared grade of documentation (1 at grade B), with the sources it comes from.

Soucouyant B
By day she is an elderly woman living alone who keeps to herself, and her skin looks strangely wrinkled from repeated use. By night she slips off her skin and puts it away — canonically in a mortar — and flies as a ball of fire,…

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