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Of all the scary creatures from Caribbean folklore, this one may be the most bizarre. The soucouyant is a cross between a witch, a vampire, and a shapeshifter. By day, she’s an elderly woman who lives down the street. By night, she sheds her skin and buries it. Then she flies away into the night, appearing as a ball of fire that can slip through keyholes and under doors. Once she finds a victim, she sucks its blood through its arms and legs and wears its skin as if its a new cloak.
The only way to defeat her is to find her buried skin and rub salt into it so that it is too painful for her to wear in the morning. There are many versions and variations of the soucouyant character in Caribbean countries. It appears in Dominica, St. Lucian, Trinidadian, and Guadeloupean folklore. It is known as Lougarou in Haiti, and as Hag in the Bahamas. In addition, stories about it have been told in Grenada, Jamaica, Suriname, Guyana, and other Caribbean countries.
I had an encounter when I was 9-10, it was a Saturday around midnight, my mom and I was chilling and talking outside waiting for the cakes and bread to finish baking as is usual for Caribbean people to bake bread for Sunday morning, when suddenly I heard loud rushing sound of wind, a sudden feeling of fear, despair and dread accompanied by goosebumps and chills creeping down( not running because it was slow and taking its precious time to reach my spine). My mother growing up in the day when this things was rampant and sightings was a normal accurace began to look around because she felt it also. Shortly after IT appeared right over our house like a very, very, very low comet or meteor, blazing with bright orange flames, speeding past our property into trees at a neighbor's property, the was a bright flash the nothing but the terrifying barking of all the dogs around. The only thing I could of done was to run as fast as my little skinny would carry to bed to immediately sleep but I had to force myself to forget the horrible image from my mind.
I have also seen marks from where Soucouyant suck the blood from my sister and other people but has never been a victim.
Hope this helps you and you can also search for Caribbean Folklore.
Many people don't believe in these things but they actually existed at one time.
Hat man is scarier. Red eyes, nothing but a hat on and likes to watch people sleep and loves it when they wake up and catch a glimpse of him.