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Mama D'Leau (derived from the French Maman de l'eau or "Mother of the River"), also known as Mama Dlo and Mama Glo, [1] is the protector and healer of all river animals, according to the folklore of islands such as Trinidad and Tobago and Dominica.
A tutelary (/ ˈ tj uː t ə l ɛ r i /; also tutelar) is a deity or a spirit who is a guardian, patron, or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture, or occupation. The etymology of "tutelary" expresses the concept of safety and thus of guardianship.
A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song that's told or sung to young children. The term dates back to the late-18th and early-19th centuries in Britain where most of the earliest nursery rhymes that are known today were recorded in English but eventually spread to other countries. [6]
T. Taffy was a Welshman; Ten Green Bottles; Ten Little Indians; There Was a Crooked Man; There Was a Man in Our Town; There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Papa Bois or Papa Bwa (otherwise known as "Maître Bois", meaning master of the woods or "Daddy Bouchon" meaning hairy man), a French patois word for "father wood" or "father of the forest" is a popular fictional folklore character of St. Lucia, Dominica and Trinidad and Tobago.
This is a list of folk heroes, a type of hero – real, fictional or mythological – with their name, personality and deeds embedded in the popular consciousness of a people, mentioned frequently in folk songs, folk tales and other folklore; and with modern trope status in literature, art and films.
Two years ago, Taylor Swift shocked her fans with the release of "Folklore." We ranked all 17 songs on the deluxe tracklist from worst to best.
The treasure guardian is a recurring motif in folklore of a being that guards a treasure. Typically, the hero must overcome the guardian in order to obtain the treasure. In some cases the treasure guardians are non-human beings, although one subtype, known as "treasure ghosts", were deceased humans who had been murdered and buried with the treasure to protect it.