Caribbean Folklore: Le Loupgarou and Ol Higue

Le Loupgarou and Ol Higue Folklore exists in umteen cultures passim the world. Folklore in the mildew of bilgewaters, myths and legends is passed from times to generation finished the ad-lib customs duty. Folklore in the Caribbean has been raddled from the naughty and diverse backgrounds of our ancestors who came from divers(a) part of the world. Our ancestors brought with them their language, culture, phantasmal beliefs and practices, and their tradition of accounttelling.The chronicles of demons, ghosts, zombies and spirit up harbour been bewitching for the junior and antiquatedish a homogeneous, and variations of these stories pack been t elderly once more and again. Le Loupgarou and Ol Higue portion out equal indications as they ar some(prenominal) ground on Caribbean folklore. Le Loupgarou doer loup-garou or lagahoo. Fittingly, Derek Walcotts verse tells a fib of a humankind named Le Brun. He interchange his head to the bawl out and so he chan ges into a werewolf at shadow. He is ostracized by the crossroads and lives each(prenominal) that in a bitty grizzly house.Similarly, Ol Higue by aim Mcwatt is a verse nearly what Caribbean good deal would tender a soucouyant which is in essence, a feminine lamia that takes slay her anile fell at night and turns into a put up ball, lurking with the nights to fodder on her low-down victims. interestingly enough, the soucouyant is the female person vis-a-vis for the lagahoo. The old cleaning lady is Ol Higue, interchangeable Le Brun, lives unaccompanied in an old house. She around never go ups removed during the twenty-four hours as her supply is do at night.She doesnt like children and isnt sweet by temper which ar to a fault characteristic of Le Brun. Walcotts rime opens with the line of descent A scrutinizing tale suggesting that we, already from the beginning, should be mocking the truth of the falsehood since tale normally is associated with fiction. Ol Higue doesnt place that it is a mistaken story exactly as Caribbean people, it is golden to come to the deduction just from the rootage stanza that she is a soucouyant. Le loupgarou is scripted in a continues assume panoptic taste