On Dominica there exists a creature known as the soucoyan. The "official" explanation of this creature's origin is that it is a curious combination of West African spiritualism and 18th Century Catholicism.

The people however know that the soucoyan appears as an old woman who sheds her skin at night (they know this because they sometimes find the skins, which are very valuable in the practice of Obeah magic.) The skinless phantom flies through the air, usually appearing as a ball of fire and sucks the blood from her victims. She must return to her skin by morning, hence possession of the skin by an Obeah (if they dare) gives control over the soucoyan.

Victims of the soucoyan may die if too much blood is taken, and it is possible for their drained bodies to become soucoyan.

What isn't clear is whether the victim becomes a new soucoyan or whether an existing soucoyan possesses the dead victim's skin. Its also not clear how male victims become soucoyans, since they always appear as old women.

Posted by Vladimir Sat, 12/22/2007 - 01:51

 

Hunger

hunger...
the nothing feed until the nothing is
there is nothing to become something .
holes of empty last
unknown scares
my father forgot to teach me.
proud at the vicious anger of the last
passion and such as taken too much there is nothing again...
I scream
the child howels for the father that made her hunger
the father that forgot the crimson words on parted lips
"never fade my child"
kiss good night before the morning walk
alone...
bloodshot eyes
they call it rest...I know no such

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Chapter 04: Prepping the Inn

Huffing and puffing, Renfield slowly dragged the hand-cart up the pathway. It had been a while since he had to do this, and he was a bit out of shape as a result. "Why the Master just doesn't let me use some sort of 20th century automotive device to deliver this stuff, I'll never know". But he learned not to question his Master's word.

He stopped the cart in front of the doorway, and began to pull some bottles from within it. Wine bottles, to be exact, but of course his Master never drinks wine, nor do any of his guests, as far as he knows.

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Vampire Killers

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word vampire as "the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep." Since the word was first coined in 1734 the myth of the vampire has grown, entering into popular culture with the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1897 and more recently through the books of Anne Rice, the most famous of which, Interview with a Vampire, was made into a film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.

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Efil Retfa

The moon is full
And the wind is calm
The night has come
In all its splendour

A silent call
Across the land
Summons me
From my slumber

C
In the land of Efil Retfa
We dream. Our days have just begun
Chart the sky, to cloak the sun
Don't know where we're going
Nowhere to run

In the land of Efil Retfa
We seduce and kill beneath the moon
Serene and mad, we roam the land
Our day of judgement
Approaches soon

Come to me
My lovely child
Take my hand

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Lesbian Vampire Killers movie angers campaigners

June 12, 2008 (pink news / Sophie Picheta) -- An online group called Angry Lesbians has said it is outraged at a film that they say is derogatory to lesbians and women is being made. The film, Lesbian Vampire Killers, a "bloodthirsty romp featuring buckets of gore and plenty of bare breasts" is currently in production.

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