Soucouyant

A Soucouyant is in Trinidad and Tobago a mythological, bloodsucking creatures.

It appears in the form of an old woman allegedly traveling at night on a fireball. The Soucouyant knocks on the door of her victim and asks it to salt or matches. If you give her what she demands, she gains power over that person. If the window of the house a cross, this should protect against the influence of Soucouyant. To drink the blood of their victims, the Soucouyant the legend has to leave for their skin.

According to legend, you can also protect against Soucouyant as follows:

• Throw up a handful of rice or other small parts out of the door or window, the Soucouyant can supposedly the place not leave until she has counted all the pieces. Takes this counting until morning, she dies without their skin in sunlight.

• Do we know where the Soucouyant lets her skin overnight, they can with salt and pepper. When she returns, the skin is pulled together, and it does not fit into it.