Hrm.

I just posted this elsewhere; it's the result, perhaps, of a talk with my father last night. We were remembering all the old stories -- the douen, the soucouyant, La Diablesse, Papa Bois. A douen is the spirit of a child who dies without being christened or baptized; the child looks as s/he did in life, except that the feet are turned backward, making the footprints, when there are any, deceptive. Such spirits, they say, often come back to steal away the living.

( Douen )

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I just purchased a tawa.

*sobs.*

This means, once it arrives, I will have no further excuse for not learning to make roti as good as my mother's.