Keep de bag o' salt by yer bed
If you are in this region very long, you hear the stories of strange goings on, Items gone missing, People scared white as death, even of those that meet an Untimely End. The natives believe it is due to the "duppy dem live here," Ghosts, Spirits, Demons. As a publick service to you our Dear Readers, we offer the top ten Haunts in this region, to be avoided, but to be avoided on All Hallow's Eve especially. You grow up on dis island and you learn dem duppy names and where you walk fast. I tell you about some and hope you never find them. 10. Always keep the bag o' salt by your bed. You ever see that ball of light on Trinidad? I know you did, you just never tell anyone. Is like a large fireball and make it way through the island and forest. You ever see it under your door, be a warned and run way fast. She is the Soucouyant. You mebbe think she is old nice woman in daytime, sweeping the path, but she watching you. At night she shed her skin like her old sleeping shi