There it is called loup garou, and there is a similar creature in Haitian folklore called the lougarou, probably from enslaved people taking the French story to different parts of the Caribbean. The lagahoo in the story has also traveled from the werewolf of French folklore. Can you give us examples of other parallel myths you discovered between Caribbean and African folklore besides Mami Wata/Mama D’Leau? In Rise of The Jumbies, you trace the source of a supernatural legend from Corinne’s island in the Caribbean back to West Africa. I’m a former elementary school teacher, I do lots of author visits, and I’m on the faculty at Lesley University’s Creative Writing MFA program. I am the author of the creepy MG fantasy adventures The Jumbies and Rise of the Jumbies, the contemporary YA novel Angel’s Grace and nine non-fiction books for kids in elementary through high school. Tracey Baptiste, author of The Jumbies series, joins Awake at Midnight to discuss writing books based on supernatural folklore.
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