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This coincides with the French Catholic loup-garou stories, according to which the method for turning into a werewolf is to break Lent seven years in a row. [citation needed] A common blood sucking legend says that the rougarou is under the spell for 101 days. After that time, the curse is transferred from person to person when the rougarou ...
The legend of the galipote is one that has survived the passage of time, at least in the most remote places of the country, where even today acts are granted to this macabre creature. The legend is so deep-rooted that, in some areas of the country, walkers do not go out at night without protective amulets or reciting some spell. [2] [4]
The Soucouyant is a folklore character who appears as a reclusive old woman (or man) by day. By night, they strip off their wrinkled skin and put it in a mortar. In the form of a fireball, they fly across the dark sky in search of a victim. The Soucouyants can enter the home of their victim through any sized hole such as cracks and keyholes.
The "Ligahoo" or "Loup Garou" is a shape-changer, a man who has power over nature and the capacity to change form to that of an animal. In Caribbean Myths, the Loup-Garou is a man who made a deal with the devil to have the ability to change form (to a werewolf) so that at night, he could go around killing without ever being caught. [17]
In folklore, a werewolf [a] (from Old English werwulf 'man-wolf'), or occasionally lycanthrope [b] (from Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος, lykánthrōpos, 'wolf-human'), is an individual who can shape-shift into a wolf, or especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction, often a bite or the occasional ...
Loup-garou – Werewolf; Loveland frog (American Folklore) – Cryptid, Humanoid Frog; Lubber fiend – House spirit; Luduan – Truth-detecting animal; Lugat – Vampire; Lui-kong-tsiau – Thunderbird; Luison – Werewolf | Cadaver-eating dog; Lusca – Sea Monster; Lutin – Amusing goblin
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This is absurd for wiki to have this page. Rougarou is a corruption of Loup Garou (pronounced "Loogaroo"). The corruption came about from people unable to distinguish an L from an R in Cajun speech. Too keep this page intact would be to suggest that Loup Garou and Rougarou are two completely seperate creatures of folklore.