soucouyants
soucouyants is the plural of soucouyant.
Meaning of soucouyant
Noun
soucouyant (plural soucouyants)
- A night witch who sucks people's blood, sheds her skin, and can transform into a fireball and fly.
- We can notice, for example, that “Vampire” combines the folkloric soucouyant (blood-sucking old woman in the shape of a ball of fire), a science fiction creature (“clammy, from its bed of hairs / And thirsty” [p. 24]), the moon again (Brown’s poems are obsessed by the moon); …1986, Kenneth Ramchand, “Wayne Vincent Brown”, in Daryl Cumber Dance (ed.), Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 90
Questions about soucouyants
- What is soucouyants the plural of?
- Soucouyants is the plural of soucouyant.
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