@mortallyw0unded: the last one really gets me :/ fought for my life to get this out before today ended. as always thanks so much for your support! shoutout to my fellow black Americans today 🥳🥳 #juneteenth #mythology #folklore #africanamerican #voodoo
I grew up with my mom telling me of the boohag and haints. Boo hag can’t come in through broken windows. It’ll tear her ass up.
2026-07-21 15:30:14
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Jojo>>>>>> :
The last slide is so sad to read..
2026-07-17 20:59:43
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⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢Tiki ۶ৎPrince Rameses’ :
I freaking love how the boo hag was mentioned, one of my original characters is a boo hag and it’s nice to see them brought up
2026-07-17 18:24:10
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lissi ୭ ᵎᵎ 🧁 :
as a black girl from california southern black culture is so fascinating to me
2026-07-18 00:58:09
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Muchi :
That fact about the Rougarou not being able to count past twelve is kinda funny😂 imagine this terrifying creature hunting you and being stopped immediately bc it’s trying to count how many objects are on your porch.
2026-07-17 22:22:53
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✫منال :
we also have this in the Caribbean, mostly the places where the french colonised... it's called soucouyant.
2026-07-09 02:38:15
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amethyst morningstar :
My family is Haitian and I’ve heard of a couple of these with creole names (like Rougarou is called lougawou in Haiti!) and tell me why our porch/front steps…are the only pale blue one on the block. Concrete with paint over it, i never understood it this whole time but this makes me wonder who lived here before us (but then again i can’t remember if my mom had it painted 🤔). This was cool to learn!!!
2026-07-25 04:43:06
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☠️SOMONIE🎀 :
I will always love information about AA folklore because the book I’m writing is very heavily based on AA folklore with other elements of other culture in world full of both humans and monsters
2026-07-18 04:53:21
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🍒 Pretty Pisces 🍒 :
I've never heard anybody talk about the plat eye!!! I always mention this in conversations revolving around native American folklore & nobody ever knows what I'm talking about 😭
2026-07-17 19:42:50
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Wild Raven bae✨️🪶🪶🪶 :
last slide they still doing it until this day
2026-07-18 18:11:45
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olivegarden821 :
Welp that was nice to see before bed😭😭😭
2026-06-20 06:48:38
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AlansWxrld :
There’s a slave house in Savannah (I can’t remember the name of) and I’m pretty sure the sleeping quarters roof was painted haint blue. (Just a little fact I remembered while reading this)
2026-07-15 23:45:38
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adri :
Omg in haiti we call it the Lougawou instead😭 cousinnnssdd
2026-07-15 04:20:42
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Lavender 🪻 :
i think i’ve been targeted by a boo hag before. i have 3 incidents of sleep paralysis where i vividly remember seeing SOMETHING sitting on my chest and not being able to move or breathe
2026-07-18 15:32:31
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🖤💀Its Just Shaè Babiii 💀🖤 :
I wonder if the boo hag is what my grandma was telling me when I was younger but idk she said “don’t sleep on your back/stomach (I can’t remember) cause a witch gone ride you/sit on you and take ya breath away. Let’s just say that’s how I started falling asleep on my side but always wake up on my stomach 😂
2026-07-29 10:09:03
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kelzkorner :
I feel like we need more movies about our folklore and history…like let’s bring back black independent films I would love to do something like that
2026-07-21 16:23:06
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Nicole Royster :
This is awesome!! I didn’t know about them! Thank you for sharing!!!
2026-06-22 03:42:05
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labrysss :
The damn boo hag scares me to this day
2026-07-22 08:42:34
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✨🧚🏾🪐 :
omfg my sleep paralysis demon is a boo hag, literally sits on my chest and screams in my face 😱😱😱
2026-07-28 14:13:53
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WithloveA :
My grandma used to terrify us with the Boo Hag story…
2026-07-25 01:30:15
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SWAGANOMETRY :
I need a movie on all of these
2026-07-29 15:13:33
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Nya🫧 :
What’s some good books to read with these topics ?
2026-07-19 21:49:38
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🍏💫 :
it's incredible how across different cultures there's spirits associated to sleep paralysis
2026-07-22 02:05:04
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First Name Kunty 🍒🪩🏳️🌈 :
The classic Black film “Sleeping with Evil” is a good example of a wandering spirit type
2026-07-21 03:16:23
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Velvet :
Interesting. My tribe has our version of haints too. But it’s more ancestral: if you displease ancestors then they can cause plagues and illness. But please them and they can cure, and bring many blessings. We don’t traditionally have porches so the methods of dealing with them were different
2026-07-31 12:45:53
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