The Werewolf Maid of Port-au-Prince: A Tale of the Loup Garou
In this story we will see how some people believe that taking on animal qualities can be the result of a curse. I first heard this story in the spring of 2004 from a Haitian woman named Yvette Antoine with whom I attended a class in Latin American literature at the University of Massachusetts. Yvette affirms that the events described in the story occurred in her home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in the mid 1980’s and centers around…
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