For Sara, growing up in a Baptist home and being involved in the Baptist church faerself is not in contradiction to the usage of southern folk magic common in the south.

This is also an uncting procedure in which oil is dropped into the nose and expelled through the mouth.

“The soucouyant is an old woman that sheds her skin,” Beth said. “She flies out of her house and looks for human blood. When she finds it, she changes into an animal of some kind and sucks the blood away.”

Stick with me, Simon, and you'll be even okayer.