Trinidad & Tobago
noun
A ghost or spirit that lives as an old woman by day, but turns into a blood sucking monster by night. According to some legends, she is able to to take off her skin and put it back on.
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21 comments
Barbados
Barbados
Isabella Alleyne
10 years ago

This is not correct. the term is "soucouyant".

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
wusamata
9 years ago

tru

Guyana
Guyana
paul
9 years ago

oligue ....old higue...its the woman herself. its not a spirit. It sucks the blood out of babies and people. old hag in British terms or old english

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
Nikki
6 years ago

Hi

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
Nikki
6 years ago

But in my country it's tru it's a sprit that appears as an old person

Barbados
Barbados
Mark Headley
5 years ago

My father always told me about a Hag when she takes off her skin and put salt onto it, becomes impossible for the Hag to fly.

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
Samuel
4 years ago

I never see it so

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
Christiana
4 years ago

I actually saw a soucouyant I swear it really true as our folktale tells it appears like a ball of fire that flies at night and then preys on its victim.

Bahamas
Bahamas
Michelle Grant
4 years ago

I feel that the old lady on my stree is a sukunya. Lady's worked for her always asy at night. She's over them . I slept over at her house. I took a candle with me . A sage one. I did not sleep candle lit . And the fire went up high. Went home that morning. That night. This lasy in blue was over me like trying to suck from me. I just remember calling on God. It took it's time going .

US Virgin Islands
US Virgin Islands
Jack
4 years ago

Sounds a lot like the Boo Hag creature that is found in the low country of South Carolina and Georgia in the U.S.

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
Lilly
3 years ago

Well, I heard a soucouyant b4. It happened for 4 nights straight. It sounded like scratching on the roof, but I thought it was a rat, or maybe a bird trying to get in, not to think it was an actual spirit.

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
Lilly
3 years ago

But after the scratching, the next morning my cousin came over and I saw a bruise on her leg, so I asked and she said it was a soucouyant. I didn't believe her but she said her mom got it as well. So, the soucouyant was trying to get into my home, but when it failed, it went to my cousin's home, which is right besides mine. I'm scared shitless.

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
2 years ago

Well buoy the time I see da I get frighten because I wanted to know what is dat like what ...!!! That got me sooooo scared eh 🤣

Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
Angel Robles
last year

I remember my friends telling me stories of this but with a different name when I was younger. I fell asleep and woke up with a bite on my arm.

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
Claireann morgan
last year

i dont know about it but my brother said he saw one in penal so i got very scared people remember to pray because you might not expect the unexcpected

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
Claireann morgan
last year

i dont know about it but my brother said he saw one in penal so i got very scared people remember to pray because you might not expect the unexcpected

Trinidad & Tobago
Trinidad & Tobago
Michaela❤️
last year

Omg my fren grandmother is that

Barbados
Barbados
Johnny Blaze
11 months ago

When I was younger, I remember my grandmother telling me about all these things, like the hag and what's not. The hags would play with little children and suck their blood. The thing is that these hags were women and my grandmother thought me how to recognize when someone is a hag, the skin around their eyes would be dark. Also they would take care off their skin put it under a coffee stone.

Barbados
Barbados
Johnny Blaze
11 months ago

Then they would turn into a ball of fire and move around and if day light catches them in that state they would die.

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Gianna
10 days ago

I am trini and when I was in my house my room was black, like pitch black you can't see anything. What's crazy is I heard something but I didn't want to get out my bed because I was too scared. I called my mom on my phone to get her in the room. Then as soon as my mom walked in a nightlight from years ago turned on. Creepy. So me and my mom prayed and then she told me it was a soucouyant.

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Gianna
10 days ago

We wanted to expose it because my mom told me that they live across the street from us. So if you're a Trini or a carribean person you know we have different remedies and ways to do things. So we got a ton of rice and poured it all over. If you do this then the soucouyant will be forced to count each and every grain, and you will be able to see it. We caught it (my friend's grandmother).It's crazy