Supernatural Caribbean Legends and Superstitions

2. This giant bulletproof serpent lives for centuries and inhabits rivers and lakes which never dry out while it lives there. Anyone who tries to kill or capture it dies.
5. Where many Caribbean folklores and superstitions originated from.
8. The practice in which a dominant culture, for example a colonizing nation, attempts to negate, suppress, remove and, in effect, erase the culture of what is thought to be a subordinate culture. The idea of “civilizing” other people is a form of cultural erasure.
12. She is usually depicted with the upper body of a beautiful woman with long snake-like hair, and from her waist downwards she is known to have a serpentine body that twists into coils.
13. An evil woman who killed all her male lovers, free or enslaved and now haunts the grounds of Rose Hall Plantation in Montego Bay.
15. To kill one you must beat the creature with a stick which has been anointed with holy water and holy oil for nine days.
16. Taking the role of trickster, he is also one of the most important characters of West African, African American and Caribbean folklore.
18. The traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth.
20. A mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse.
22. The act of retaining the culture of a specific ethnic group of people, especially when there is reason to believe that the culture, through inaction, may be lost.

1. To break her spell one must turn their clothing inside out and walk home backward, away from the area she was spotted in.
3. They are normally very frightening and dangerous but they can also visit you in dreams to give you the winning numbers to the lottery!
4. (of a manifestation or event) attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature.
6. The region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (including the West Indies), and the surrounding coasts.
7. In her true form, as a fireball she flies across the dark sky in search of a victim to suck their blood.
9. A ghost that appears as a red eyed bull that hauls heavy chains behind it and haunts the roads and countryside at night.
10. This being is a magical creature that can shapeshift between the forms of a cat and a woman.
11. Often called the "keeper of the forest", he is thought of as the protector of the forests and their flora and fauna.
14. This immensely tall spectre stands at crossroads under the full moon straddling the road.
17. If a traveler meets one and treats it well, they will be rewarded with good luck, while treating one badly will result in bad luck and hard times.
19. If they hear a child's name, they can then call to the child in a parent's voice and try to lure the child into the forest.
21. A name given to a sea monster said to exist in the region of the blue holes nearby Andros, an island in the Bahamas.