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soucouyant, n. W. Indies.|sukuˈjɑ̃|
Also soucriant, sukuyâ, sukunyah.
[Creole, prob. related to Fula sukunyadyo, Sininke sukunya sorcerer, witch.]
In the folklore of the Eastern Caribbean, a malignant witch believed to shed her skin by night and suck the blood of her victims.
1934‘J. Rhys’ Voyage in Dark iii. iv. 192 Lying in the dark..frightened of soucriants that fly in through the window and suck your blood—..you know them in the day-time—they look like people but their eyes are red and staring and they're soucriants at night. 1955Caribbean Q. IV. ii. 103 The shrine is said to have originally been the gift of one Ma Monrose in thanksgiving for the saving of her child from a sukuyâ who had carried him off. 1968K. S. La Fortune Legend of T-Marie xxxv. 128 The Sangre Grande Court House was packed. The streets were lined with people who came to get a glimpse of the ‘Soucouyant’. 1973S. Selvon Ways of Sunlight i. 14 He heard of soucouyants which sucked your blood while you slept. 1982D. Sutcliffe Brit. Black Eng. ii. 36 Her tale of the sukunyah (or soucouyen), the skin-changing vampire. 1988P. A. Roberts W. Indians & their Lang. vi. 153 The tales contain..familiar and unfamiliar beings, animals and places, e.g. men and soucouyants, dogs and tigers, backyards and kingdoms. |