I am getting ready to dive into my very first zombie novel ( Read more... )

I'm turning to you, little_details, for my Google-fu is stuck.

I have a character in mind, a Santeria priestess (santera) and I want to make her be an immortal or something along those lines.  I don't want to do the stereotypical, expected thing where she's an Orisha in hiding.  I want something more magical but not in the god realm.  I was just wondering what ( Read more... )

(There will be a brief pause to allow the wiseacres in the audience to reply, "Getting pwned by Anansi.")

What I'm wondering is how this memetic mutation, which seems to be peculiar to Jamaica, came about--more precisely, how an animal native to neither Ghana nor the New World came to replace the original lion or leopard antagonist. (Not having read ( Read more... )

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I'm (desperately) looking for fairy-tales, myths or legends that were widely known on the Virgin Islands (Saint Croix, specifically) during the mid-1700s. Amazingly, I haven't found any...

Terms (unsuccessfully) googled so far:
Saint Croix, Virgin Islands, fairy-tale(s), legend(s), myths 18th century, 1700s, folklore (in various combinations).

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The setting isn't really relevant, but I need some info on the Baron Kriminel from Haitian Voudan legend because my chacracter is trying to explain voodoo to a friend. 2007 setting, London England- My character is very open-minded and into everything and her friend is trying to 'soul search' and find herself, so she asked about Voudan practise and ( Read more... )

To preface this, I should say I'm writing a cyberpunk novel, and trying to name (almost codename, after a fashion) a character ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm writing an alternate-earth piece set in pre-Katrina New Orleans (there are exactly two settings: the New Orleans of October 2003 and and the New Orleans of January 2004). Problem is, I've never been. I've been looking at French names for NPCs and other characters. But looking at all these lists, I have ZERO context. I can't guess which ( Read more... )

Hello all, I have a question about voodoo.

I think I saw on some 80's tv show that white was worn for mourning in the voodoo religion, but I don't know if that was a fact or a fudged fact.

Any other interesting little bits of obscuria on the subject would be appreciated also ^^