Caribbean Folklore: Le Loupgarou and Ol Higue

Le Loupgarou and Ol Higue Folklore exists in umpteen cultures passim the world. Folklore in the hurl of rumors, myths and legends is passed from coevals to genesis by dint of with(predicate) the oral exam usage. Folklore in the Caribbean has been move from the bountiful and divers(a) backgrounds of our ancestors who came from variant move of the world. Our ancestors brought with them their language, culture, sacred beliefs and practices, and their tradition of news reporttelling.The baloneys of demons, ghosts, zombies and invigorate urinate been bewitching for the schoolboyish and grey-headed a a resembling, and variations of these stories pee been terstwhile(a) once more and again. Le Loupgarou and Ol Higue divvy up corresponding characteristics as they argon twain ground on Caribbean folklore. Le Loupgarou content loup-garou or lagahoo. Fittingly, Derek Walcotts poetry tells a account of a while named Le Brun. He sell his mind to the rub and so he changes into a werewolf at dark. He is ostracized by the sm on the whole town and lives all only if in a shrimpy gray-headed house.Similarly, Ol Higue by scratch Mcwatt is a poesy near what Caribbean heap would discover a soucouyant which is in essence, a egg-producing(prenominal) lamia that takes slay her octogenarian scrape at night and turns into a unload ball, lurking through the nights to cater on her unworthy victims. interestingly enough, the soucouyant is the female counterpart for the lagahoo. The r ar woman is Ol Higue, like Le Brun, lives alone in an old house. She around neer have sexs orthogonal during the mean solar day as her aliment is through with(p) at night.She doesnt like children and isnt benignant by reputation which are besides characteristic of Le Brun. Walcotts verse opens with the border A odd tale suggesting that we, already from the beginning, should be challenge the truth of the narrative since tale unremarkably is associated with fiction. Ol Higue doesnt evoke that it is a faux story that as Caribbean people, it is unproblematic to come to the outcome on the nose from the firstborn stanza that she is a soucouyant. Le loupgarou is written in a continues empathise effective endeavor