T&T Folklore Pt. 5: SOUCOUYANT
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ค. 2018
- "On the beautiful island republic of Trinidad & Tobago there lies a dark, foreboding folklore buried deep in the psyche and history of its people. Where tales of Black Magic, the Soucouyant, Duenne, La Diablesse and other macabre and mysterious occurrences remain largely hidden to the outside world, but sometimes in the rural areas and even in the city'sunderground, there are people on these islands who remain convinced of the existence of these strange phenomenons.
This documentary (now web series) charts its possible origins through revealing interviews with such academics as Professor Gordon Rholer and Professor Bridgette Brereton of the University of the West Indies, and historians Gerard Besson and Michael Anthony. Blended together with re-enactments, historical photographs and illustrations, this documentary is a must have for people seeking a deeper understanding of the culture that makes up this complex society."
Production Info:
Executive Producers: Reginald Pollard, Ria Mohammed
Written, Directed & Produced by: Reginald Pollard, Anil Hardit-Singh
Editor: Reginald Pollard
Narrator: Mark Ewing
Director of Photography: Reginald Pollard
Composer: Anil Hardit-Singh
Additional Stock Footage: Digital Juice Libraries
Animation and Graphics: SDL Productions
Illustrations: Eleanore Pollard
Additional Illustrations and photographs Courtesy of: Paria Publishing Co. Ltd.
Sound Design: Anil Hardit-Singh
Sound Mix: Reginald Pollard
Sound Effects: Sonaris (Trinidad)
Special Thanks
Paria Publishing Co. Ltd. The National Museum of Trinidad and Tobago, Professor Gordon Rholer, Professor Bridgette Brereton, Gerard Besson, Michael Anthony, Motilal Gayasingh, Merle Hodge, Mark Ewing, Denton Lourenco, Anson Gonzalez, Ashton Shuffler, Diego Andrer Conocchiari, Daniel Alberto Conocchiari, Dr. Kumar Mahabir, Felix Edinborough, SASI Productions, Adiram Roopchand, Eleanore Pollard, Bruce Pollard, Samuel Mejias, Christopher Mejias and Lynette Commissiong.
It’s crazy how all of the Caribbean we had similar stories that originated at a time where there was no internet,no means of travel and lil communication between islands for slaves and indentured servants. But yet we all have similar stories.. I refuse to believe ppl were just crazy back then ,our ancestors truly saw these things.
It's a generational this passed down to beast/human to kin, old folks call it "bad book" grimoires for the spells to transform. Unfortunately I came across 3 crappy things. 'Witch, wolf with chains and half woman and cow/goat'. Those things go bump in the night
It's really based on the slave and the stories they would have told when they came... Why we deviated slightly throughout the Caribbean is due to the combining of slave stories and colonisers
I believe those things really exist/ed
Hmm i feel my neighbour is one
Plz move out😯😯😯
I feel the old people my Moms Talk to I feel dem is Tht
@@babybowa6892 🤣🤣
Uhh your done broo
Same bro he rocks on his chair everyday and he live alone never comes out the house only people have to drop groceries out his gate and pics it up the house always dark he smiles at mostly young children bruh I’m scared now
Is 2020 Them Soucouyant Zessing
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol
LOLLLLLL
😂😂😂😂😂
😲😂😂😂😂😂😂
My mom swear she was bitten by one. She even hard a mark to show. Grew up hearing about all these folklore from my elder family.
It's true
Same story had pictures to prove it
They used to bite me when I was small, I used to get us with blue marks all over my body.
It is true I have marks to a kind off red blue black marks on my legs
They are actual demons tht were fought true a portal by agents of darkness called humans, they demand blood ,hence the red marks in the body,
So sad that someone would take a vulnerable widow and demonise her for something like this. Her husband is already gone what a time to cause someone more grief...
I agree , it's sad.
Be quiet please
@@Foxyboyxxx101 LMAOOOO
There are some women who are falsely accused of being soucouyants, but my mom grew up in a rural village in fyzabad and there were many witchwomen there
i grew up in trinidad. i'm only 26 as of this date. but i saw way to much stuff to say these stuff isn't real. seeing too that i grew up on a hill. i remember one night, we were all young. saturday night so all the adults at the local bar drinking. me and about 8 other kids, including my sister/brothers and cousins- friends. were all outside liming. next thing you know, we saw like the bamboo patch caught on fire. for like 10mins straight, a big fire in the bamboo's. but everyone knew, even at that age what was happening. so everyone ran inside, who ran home. but next morning. we checked out the spot where we saw fire burning. there wasn't even a burnt leaf there..
Stop lie
@@paradisesunprincess Wham to you everything so . Steupss
how many edibles did yall take?
@@meer9098 this was the late 90s early 2000s. And we were kids..
@@paradisesunprincess haven't lived in trinidad for many years now, but I'd incite you to visit the mountains, north west of trinidad. So the Diego Martin area. You'll see things too
i love local folklore stories
It’s. 2019 and Soucouyant running more than ever
Soucouyant did exist, I am not sure for now, but I know for a fact that it did exist back in the early 50s and 60s, mostly in the country side of Trinidad.
They still do...just more sophisticated now...
It still exist asshole
ok but how in the world yall know its background and ting? she must have tell ppl bout it
Terry Rogers they still exist my friend😉
True, in Suriname its called Asema. They do exist, know that for sure.
"I believe these folk stories to be real." For I've encountered allot of entities in my growing years. Mostly in Tobago.
The most fearing one was a shadow buck with red flaming eyes... I think I'm blessed to be alive after him.
Please say more ....
Wow, see. People need to stop being so ignorant and small minded, they exist.
These stories are so true the difference is that we all call them different things. Here we call the (shadow buck) Jacco lantern, not much of them around right now because of the light.
True or false I'm just glad that we've trying to keep our mythology alive
I seen this in Guyana as a kid in the night my uncle try to catch it .an if it like ur blood it will come every night it put u to sleep so u dont know anything.its a curse that passed on
A MAN LAST NIGHT TOLD ME A STORY ..AND IT ENDED WHERE THE SOOKONYA PUT EVERYONE TO SLEEP
Didn't know they can put you to sleep...when I was younger one of our neighbors was one and she loved to suck me and my mom's blood...my mother especially use to wake up with some huge bite marks...using crab oil on your skin helps
New Years in about 2015 my aunt, 4 of my cousins and I were at an old bridge liming. I just looked at my aunt and she had an expressionless look on her face. When we returned home, she told us she saw a Socouyant.
Dy fire works
@@JuxMan188 🤣
My brother in law has a video that they took in claxton bay a night they saw one. They actually saw a ball of fire moving and going in different directions like if it was looking for something. Its stayed moving about for a while around their area and then took off. Those evil things are real!
YO LO post them
Hey I grew up in Claxton Bay and I’ve heard lots of stories. Even in these areas they don’t sell salt to anyone after 6pm because they assume that u may use it to practice evil.
@@saintmelanin1779 how u used to cook???
@@andersoncarter4601 they never sell it after 6pm, read properly.
@@stevenmiles4667 ok buddy thanks, I will try to next time😊
When I was a young boy a friend douse a chicken with kerosene and took it up the hill and light it on fire at night. The village was talking about the Soucouyant for years.
Lmaoo
LMAOOOO
LMAO
Lmaooo
Bwda 🤣🤣
politician are soucouyant
sure ! anti-illuminat tard
I saw one of that flying in d night when I was liming with my friends and it land on ah coconut tree and we run home and put ah circle with rice salt and pepper ah cross and bible because we was scared
Julisse Williams LMAOOO
Bro just say your prays in know cause I'm a hunter 11 and my dad say anytime yuh see it just
Say your praise and run in a house
November 2021 and I got bite last night for the first time. My mother and other siblings got bite before. It’s not just a thing of olden days and i don’t think it’s something that will stop or pass away.
My mother always told me a story from when she was little girl in Trinidad how she saw one. There was never a ball of fire but she saw the old woman walking through her house. My mother is no liar I believe her account. They also won’t make eye contact with you in the day.
I love them....
I didn't see it but I saw the light of it.
2019 n dey out dey I doz get suck 😭😭😭😭
I'm Trinidadian and I witnessed a ball of fire flying and when we say look ah socouyant , it out .
The spirit has several regional names:
Ol' Higue or Ole Haig in Guyana,Belize and Jamaica
Asema in Suriname
Hag in The Bahamas and Barbados
Soucouyant or soucriant in Louisiana and elsewhere in the Caribbean
I love hearing this
I have a neighbor he's a shop owner that lived in the US he's not native to Trinidad and one morning he told me a story that he saw a bowl of fire flying out of the neighborhood he said he never saw anything like that in his life and he's from the US but as for me I never saw one
We have a house in buccoo, every summer when i was younger and visited from foreign we definitely used to put rice in front all the doors and windows.
This is true it still have
I saw this when I was a child in Puerto Rico
In Surinam the soucouyant is called : asema
My great grandma told me about this. She has no reason to lie to us.
Is it the same as “firerass”? I’ve heard of similar stories from my family from Guyana
Me an my sis see one long time ago flying over ratchet hill in cocorite....
We call them (OLE HIGUE) IN GUYANA🇬🇾
Yeah
I live up Mayaro
I never saw one but I want to
@@username6357 post it on youtube
@@username6357 post it
You really don't want to😂 😶
@@username6357 Fam then it aint real lmao
It is true up to now I having a serious problem I don't know what to do
I saw it 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹really
How do u get rid of it any one knows
There are different ways...so I've read(I'm into these kinda shit lol) that u can leave the key in ur door in the open position...if the ole higue(As we call it in Guyana) doesn't have anywhere else to go it might go through the keyhole...u gon hear the key rattling in the lock...turn it in the locked position n ur suppose to hear something like bones crunching...usually u gon wake up and see a pile of bones in front ur door...if that ain't work u can set up rice ...an I mean alot of rice...they have to count it once it's there..if they drop one they have to start over...now if u wake up and see one u beat them with a cassava broom...there are other ways but ion able type anymore lol
It's the end of 2019 and I now see one time to get salt
Angela Letren from Maraval is one
facts
Who is that? Tell us more lol
😲😯😦😱😵who is this Angela person??
1983 2am saw a large intense white light above bethel village
hung in the air above the western ridge
for 5 minutes
then at great astonishing speed vertically rose and disappeared above the village
a disturbing visual which remains a mystery
since then i have seen recordings of similar light broadcasted on you tube in the californian night sky
So, it was a UFO?
In now days, I talking the end of last month October 2021 I saw a suconia flying over my head no too high in the sky, I was at work not knowing what it was, as iam a Jamaican, but by telling my coworkers about what I saw then they let me know what it was 🤦. It's a good thing iam a believer of God 🙏🙏
‘Tuh sock out dey blood’
My family and I are from Basse Terre, Moruga Trinidad but lived in America. When we moved back the day after there was the same mark you described on my leg and my family said its from that creature but there are a lot of sightings of those as well as douens in Moruga its interesting, just wanted to share my experience since it's still around.
lol
Real talk, my bro an I saw one once. Allahu Akbar. God is the greatest
Moruga seems to be at the centre of many supernatural sightings. Hope you are well now and you don't see those marks anymore!
Probably bedbugs
U live in moruga??
The helper in my wuk place is one. She lived up on the hills.
I saw a souconyant when I was the age of 10 flying through the night and it fell so mom and I started throwing countless rice and salt all over
It fell? Just like that? What happened afterwards?
Definitely real in Plum Mitan back in the day.
Any proof ? Anywhere else I can look this up? I always found Plum Mitan and Charuma there to be interesting
@@Reggaeshark. the only proof I have is word of mouth from my mom and her brothers and sisters. But the stories I herd growing up from the elders around me, were all similar. My grandfather in Plum Mitan was one of the most respected elders in the village and the head boss in charge of "bush bush" in the Nariva swamp.
@@somaleon3603 not doubting you at all just wanted a start point to research more. Down the local folklore rabbit hole rn lol
@@Reggaeshark. oh yea absolutely lol, but if you were to physically go and talk to the fisherman and people who work in the lagoon and the older generations they will have stories for you. Good luck to you.
@@somaleon3603 Girl,I from La Brea and it was very very prevalent back in the days.My granny tell me our neighbor was one and that was in the 2000s
Got an aunt who is avoided she appears to look like one 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have a video with one saw it 2 times but only taped it once have the video on tik tok atm
You is a liar rasshole
Oh i wish this had subtitles! Someone please make them!
Girl lol it’s English with an accent 😂😂
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Welcome to Trinidad and Tobago people
(i'm a Trinidadian)
This eh no joke eh people this shit happens to up to 2 days ago
Guys it doesn't look like a ball of fire it looks like a yellow light in a hunter 11 and saw a soccoyant plenty times and it is attracted to light if yuh in the Bush and it was your light it go come if yuh see it take yuh light of one time
My dad told me to write a story on one
2023 an yes it hav in san juan
My dad got bit by one
Tbh when I was smaller I see one off that when I was down by my grandmother 😂 me and my father was in d yard and I still remember but nooo,he feel I clowning it🙄
Dem thing is no laughing matter
Fr
The easiest way to keep them from your house is putting salt around your house because when I was smaller one came to suck my blood she said "he got away this time" but she bit my dad and the next day he put salt along the road and around the house and she started cussing cause she couldn't cross the salt and it was an old lady
one night I was coming in late and one of the guy then come in my direction from the street say do not go that way there a ball of fire just fly across say stay away oldige is there
My ex and her whole family are (they’re Dominican) and my whole family (Trinidad) are too
What about the rice on the junction? The woman who stopped to pick it up would be the soucuyant
dam
My name is Gerard to
Where are the forieners not understanding what they are saying
Not only women, men too
I saw one when I was younger I'm 16 now but it was a ball of fire like a comet passing over the houses I try to take a picture phone on 3%try to tellmy mom I bothering she I never see it again steupz
Maybe it was a comet? If not, what made you think it was Soucouyant?
@@trinbagostories6019 because hands were reaching out from the flame I really vexx my phone was practically dead
I believe they exist.
Stop drink all de rum and you won't see dem.
Nemzeek 🤣🤣
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Lmao
Tortuga Village mi grandmother use to tell meh.
The supernatural is a very real and powerful entity. Unless one has never experience it, one should not discount it.
Whatever the mind creates,does exist.
I Vid live around the car on I area I gut up one morning around two just to have a out I saw a round ball of fire moving around just Close my. Eyes and went back to bed in the morning I told my mom what I saw that happen years ago so that's a true story
The same bible we use for good is the same book we use for evil
My mom caught one in oropouche Trinidad
If it don't have the blue mark come from way!
It is very real I assure you
Alyah we can't trust anyone
Did that dude at the end witness a 16 year old girl get put in a barrel and murdered or did I misunderstand?
Thank you for your question. No he didn't witness the murder but he claimed that it was his father who went and saw what had been done.
A REAL SOUCOUYANT SUMMON A BUNCH OF SPIRITS TOGETHER WITH HER OWN AND FLY WITH THEM BUT IT TURN INTO A BAT
This is a true folklore...my mom saw a soucouyant...and as a kid i was bitten and my mom rub salt on the round bite
I believe soucouyant is an exaggerated version of a 🦟, think about it, if a mosquito can exist a soucouyant can exist 🤔
It’s a vampire.
I think my stepmother is one. My father married that ole witch and he is dead but she and she ole mother still living .She have 72 years now
wdmc😹😹😹
@@christian-we3wr i forgot to mention
I forgot 2 mention her mom around 99_100 years and still moving although that lady looks like gollum from lord of the rings.🤮
This is real I live in Canada 🇨🇦 and get bite In my leg under mouth mark blue black .. i didn’t believe It till. This happened . To me .
Soucouyant in cold canada?
A bat that
Ther r for rel i saw one
My neighbor is one
The speakers in this video all look like soucouyant
Dude..dont be rude😒because you won't wanna see wanna those things for real..trust me
You must be one @@Little_Jay
@@CB14049 smh..I know an uncultured swine when I see one🤣👩🦯
Astral projection/astral vampire/living ghost/energy body (that remind the Glimmer man cryptid) of this sub-type/species of beings around the world, is the true shamanic ace of the Opir, Strigoi, Tahulputchi, Impundulu, Skademagutc, Nelusa Falaya, Liderc, Zduhac (Different from Stuhac) ect...
I saw 2 already they were flying next to eachr it was dwile night
Stueps then take a picture or a video... till then you're just as delusional as these farmers.
@@quickizdword426 my brother in law has a video they took a night when they saw one flying in the sky.
@@ajaysamraj3649 post it on youtube and get it monetized... if its legit then your brother in law would be a very rich man.
They does suck d animals too
That look like an led helium balloon dying.
Can you tell me if this real
They are real.
Yes it is real
As far as I'm concerned, it isn't real, there is basically no proof of these things existing other than stories told among the people
Watching from Florida! Live in the present stop repeating nonsense!
How is this nonsense...this thing is real..yeah sure you prolly won't know about it but it's actually a real thing...and If you had the chance to live in the Caribbean you'd soon believe it too because alot of the times you'd literally wake up with black blue marks on ur body that hurt like a bish
@@Little_Jay Very true🎯💯
Read the Testament of Solomon!
The Trinibago Soucouyant = The Guyanese Old Higue
soucouyant wearing long johns in new york
Soucouyants stop biting when ppl finished fixed their roofs properly
Trinidad have to mush
Lmfao
not good to watch at 3 in the morning
To much guns in Trinidad,them thing wouldn't survive.
vampire is Caucacian from Transslyvainia ,soucouyant is an African from Trinidad and Tobago , perharps colonizers demonize African culture for christianity. I living Mayaro and whistle i go call names.