SoucouYan in Dominica / Bataille de Soucouyan en Dominique

La Dominique la semaine dernière a été agitée par une histoire de sorcières. Deux sorcières ce sont croisées dans la rue à Roseau. elles sont restée immobile pendant 5 heures refusant chacune de passer d'un côté. Le Maire de Roseau devant une ville paralysée a du intervenir personnellement, et l'embouteillage monstre a bloqué la ville, tout le monde venant voir le spectacle.

Le plus intéressant dans cette histoire, c'est que comme pour beaucoup d'événements de la Dominique, tout c'est retrouvé sur le Net en quelques minutes...
en allant sur Youtube vous trouverez des références, et même des films d'animation sur le sujet !
les Soucouyans sur le Net !!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oRnzDR3HlE&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0SFp2qe_p4

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Whatch the last news online about a battle of Sookooyans in town Roseau. Dominica.
as usual in Dominica everything in on the Net - right away after the event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oRnzDR3HlE&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0SFp2qe_p4

Let me give you the definition of Soucouyan given by Lennox Honychurch:

A spirit character in Dominican folklore. The Creole version of one of
the West African night time forest spirits. The soucouyan is a woman
who sheds her skin at night and flies around the place in the form of a
ball of fire sucking blood from animals and people. The angular
branches of the Silk Cotton or Formager trees (Ceiba pentandra),
associated with the spirit world throughout the Americas, are believed
to be a resting place for soucouyans. If the abandoned skin is found
and rubbed with salt, the spirit will have difficulty putting it on
when she returns. Later, she can be identified by incurable sores on
her legs. This also happens if she is injured while out sucking blood.
A calabash of peas placed next to the skin will cause delay, as she
will have to count them before returning to human form. If the sun
rises before she is finished counting she can be caught. The word comes
from the French, to suck. It has been recorded that dancing lights,
believed to be soucouyans, have turned out to be small swarms of mating
fireflies or 'La Belles'.

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