Lougarou

Lodanna singing about lougarou.

In Haiti there is a folk belief in beings called "loup garou", lougarou in Creole. This term has been
translated in English as "werewolf", but this is not the sense in which it is used in Haiti. A person who
becomes a lougarou is a person who magically flies at night, either by turning into a bird or by removing
their skin, and goes about doing harm, especially by killing children.

There are scores of tales about lougarou, and most Haitians can tell you who in their district has a
child who was killed by a lougarou. They can imitate the characteristic screech of a lougarou, they can tell you what to do if a lougarou attacks one's house, and how to identify which person in the community is the lougarou.
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti-archive/msg07414.html

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