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- 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.
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- 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.