Monthly Archives: March 2023

Mama D’leau

Like her husband Papa Bois, Mama D’leau is associated with nature, specifically rivers and river dwellers. Just like La Diablesse, she is deceptively beautiful until exposed as a monster. For Mama D’leau, the transformation occurs when she is angered. She becomes a monster with a scaly upper body and snake-like appendages, including her snake-strand hair […]

Soucouyant

Tales of bloodsuckers preying in the night go back throughout almost all of human history. From vampires to incubi and succubi, most cultures have detailed folklores about mysterious creatures draining one’s life essence while they sleep. A soucouyant is a version of a succubi, a female blood-sucking demon. In Caribbean and Creole mythos she is […]