Sukuyan is a vampire creature of Trinidad and Tobago. Melville Herskovits shared a story about a
man who discovered that his wife is a Sukuyan.
The wife allegedly does not only feed on the blood of her husband, she
also visits nearby homes in order to satiate her thirst for blood. Eventually the man found out that his wife is
drugging his tea drinks every night. One night he decided to pretend on
drinking the tea. He was already feeling
daze due to sleepiness but he fight it in order to confirm his theory.
The man heard his wife say:
‘Kin, ‘kin, you no know me?‘Kin, ‘kin, you no hear what your mistress say?‘Kin, ‘kin, come off, come off!
She witnessed how her wife took of her skin and placed it in a big water
jar. She then jumped out of their house and into the roof. The man was so surprised on what he saw. That night the man noticed that the night
seems to be on fire due to the color of the sky that illuminated the room. The man took the skin of her wife and put a
salt on it. He then returned it back to
the water barrel. Before the breaking of
dawn, the wife returned and attempted to wear back her skin but she couldn’t
since the salt inside burned her.
‘Kin, go on.‘Kin, you no know me?‘Kin, you no hear what you mistress say?
The man also heard his wife said thrice “Skin squinch he draw, can’t go
on, he burning he.” The woman in fear of
dying placed back her skin in the barrel and covered herself with a blanket and
hid under the bed. The man reported the
incident to the authority where he was arrested and identified as a vampire
creature. She was executed by covering
her entire body with tar and she was set on fire.
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