SOUCOUYANT – The Caribbean Skin-Shedding Fireball That Drinks Your Blood

Podcast: Freaky Folklore · Eeriecast Network

Opublikowano: 2026-08-03

There's an old woman at the edge of the village. She keeps to herself, lives in the shadow of the silk cotton tree, and has no husband, no children, no people anyone can name. And in the mornings, the babies three houses down wake up pale, exhausted, and marked with bruises in the soft places — where the blood runs nearest the skin. Tonight we travel to the eastern coast of Trinidad to meet the Soucouyant: the skin-shedding fireball witch of the French Creole Caribbean, who peels off her own skin like a wet dress, folds it...