#carribbeanfolklore

[alexkujawa]

2017 Inktober, Day 16 SOUCOUYANT is a type of blood sucking hag in Carribean folklore. The soucouyant practices black magic. She is a shapeshifter who appears as a reclusive old woman by day. By night, she strips off her wrinkled skin and puts it in a mortar. In her true form, as a fireball she flies across the dark sky in search of a victim. The soucouyant can enter the home of her victim through any sized hole like cracks, crevices and keyholes. Soucouyants suck people's blood from their arms, legs and soft parts while they sleep leaving blue-black marks on the body in the morning. If the soucouyant draws too much blood, it is believed that the victim will either die, become a soucouyant or perish entirely, leaving her killer to assume her skin. Other common names for SOUCOUYANT: Soucriant (in Dominica, St. Lucian, Trinidadian, Guadeloupean folklore), Lougarou (in Haiti, Louisiana, and Grenada), Ole-Higue or Ole Haig (in Guyana and Jamaica), and Asema (Suriname). My Inktober continues! This year I am drawing female ghosts, monsters, and demons from around the world. . #inktober #sketchbook #soucouyant #asema #soucriant #olehaig #olehigue #firewitch #carribbeanfolklore #folklorecreature #witch #hag #inktober2017 #inkdrawing #illustration #artistoninstagram #instart #drawing #drawingmonsters