Moruga Tales - now available in Bookstores and eBook format

[pecan]

With all de talk about La Diablesse/Soucoyant/Douennes/Papa Bois, I decided to upload some folklore from Moruga.

These stories are written by June Lee-Sing.  The play "Moruga in June" by my cousin from The Brown Cotton Ensemble was inspired by these tales.

This is the first publication of these tales.  With permission from the author.

These tales are based on true events - no lie except the underlying fact that it is all fiction. Names, characters and incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

[pecan]

TALE #1

[Quags]

My dad tell me a very similar story way back in like 86,.. that had happen to him when he was younger ,just he was in his taxi ...really similar .Infact so similar ,kinda making me beleive touches post that yah parents use to make this shit up lol .
But I have ah couple stories ,where I actually know the ppl ,one was ah lagahoo and ah soucoyant.....that bitch.

[Bakes]

I've heard similar stories....I was actually waiting for the part where he lit the match 

[WestCoast]

I've heard similar stories....I was actually waiting for the part where he lit the match 

He lit de match and she disappear at the same time

anyway, look de Silk Cotton Tree

if ya look close ya might see she in the bottom right corner
muuuu haaaaaa haaaaaaaa

Good one Pecan

[Sando prince]

I never beleieve none of dem ting nah..but de people who make up dem tales rel creative and imaginative

[Dutty]

I never beleieve none of dem ting nah..but de people who make up dem tales rel creative and imaginative

no tv, no internet, no radio reception

plenty of time to give ah boring story ah lil sparkle

[TriniCana]

I never beleieve none of dem ting nah..but de people who make up dem tales rel creative and imaginative

Sando believe it douxs....dey out dere

[TriniCana]

pecan is there a book published ? Because I for one would purchase this.

Moruga especially La Lune has a spot in my life's history. I've spent several August vacations there and believe me, they are very fond memories. Some I hope to tell my grand kids about one day.

From the RC Church straight down to the lagoon to climbing tree and seeing La Diablesse....to eating wild meat, rice and pigeon peas...lawd

thanks for the read pecan

[Sando prince]

pecan is there a book published ? Because I for one would purchase this.

Moruga especially La Lune has a spot in my life's history. I've spent several August vacations there and believe me, they are very fond memories. Some I hope to tell my grand kids about one day.

From the RC Church straight down to the lagoon to climbing tree and seeing La Diablesse....to eating wild meat, rice and pigeon peas...lawd

thanks for the read pecan

  dem treess you climb musbe was too high for yuh ..cause yuh start seeing shit

[AB.Trini]

This holds a special place for me.  I delivered my dad's eulogy in the R.C. church in  G.C. My grand father lived in Edwards Trace and I spent many a school holidays  up there. Still have family up that way.
Anyone with family p.m. me and we could exchange surnames to see if there is a connection.

Nice story; it brought back my childhood days of walking through the trace with no electricity; about listening to my great aunt' husband  talk of the spirits in the woods and going to the  well for water. Lawd dem days were very very precious...... no talk of bandits!!!!! locking up your doors...... not afraid to walk late at nights...people were respectful...look nah with all this advancements in society... in some places we gone real horrid!!!!!

[pecan]

no book yet

The author is only now putting pen to paper as she recalls her youth.

I will publish a new story every week.

Here is the list of what we have so far:

 MORUGA TALES



1.   PROLOGUE

                        2.   TALE #1:   Cecil’s  Story
                                                 Cecil and La Diablesse

                        3.  TALE #2 :   Freddie’s Story
                                                  Freddie and the Mermaid

                        4.  TALE #3:   June’s Story
                                                 Dwens in the Woods

                        5.  TALE #4:   Rupert’s Story
                                                 Ti-Jean and the Diablotins

                        6.  TALE #5:   Chunnie’s Story
                                                 The Stranger in the Shop

                        7.  TALE #6:   Angie’s Story
                                                 Big John and the Creature

                         8.  TALE #7:   The Soucoyant
                                                 Soucoyant

[TriniCana]

pecan is there a book published ? Because I for one would purchase this.

Moruga especially La Lune has a spot in my life's history. I've spent several August vacations there and believe me, they are very fond memories. Some I hope to tell my grand kids about one day.

From the RC Church straight down to the lagoon to climbing tree and seeing La Diablesse....to eating wild meat, rice and pigeon peas...lawd

thanks for the read pecan

  dem treess you climb musbe was too high for yuh ..cause yuh start seeing shit

well yeah dat make sense...ah was seeing you too.

Sando babes doh go dere nuh...doh tell me what i did or didn't see.
we go leave dat right dere

[TriniCana]

This holds a special place for me.  I delivered my dad's eulogy in the R.C. church in  G.C. My grand father lived in Edwards Trace and I spent many a school holidays  up there. Still have family up that way.
Anyone with family p.m. me and we could exchange surnames to see if there is a connection.

Nice story; it brought back my childhood days of walking through the trace with no electricity; about listening to my great aunt' husband  talk of the spirits in the woods and going to the  well for water. Lawd dem days were very very precious...... no talk of bandits!!!!! locking up your doors...... not afraid to walk late at nights...people were respectful...look nah with all this advancements in society... in some places we gone real horrid!!!!!

So damn true....
As I was telling pecan, my father is originally from Moruga. La Lune to be precise. I'm aware of Edwards Trace.
I"m sure you know about Taghadeen grocery

[pecan]

I never beleieve none of dem ting nah..but de people who make up dem tales rel creative and imaginative

dais why it is called Folklore

The imagination can entertain for forever. 


The old form of story telling is a human tradition that we might soon lose as video/internet/tv takes over.


btw: my sister done get suck by a soucoyant a few times when we use to holiday in Moruga.

Dem fuh real boy.   

[pecan]

I just update the original post with a Google Earth pic of Moruga  (scroll to the top of the thread)

you can see the RC church where AB went.  The Lee Sing shop still at the south west corner of the main intersection

[WestCoast]

btw: my sister done get suck by a soucoyant a few times when we use to holiday in Moruga.

Dem fuh real boy.   

dais from bats man
my cousin did get bite also

my wife tell me she went there, with the Ministry of Agricultue, in 1980 to investigate if the fishing village should be moved

[AB.Trini]

 In a quiet trace along a river bank IN G.C.  I laid my father's ashes in the place where he  found eternal peace.

[pecan]

btw: my sister done get suck by a soucoyant a few times when we use to holiday in Moruga.

Dem fuh real boy.   

dais from bats man
my cousin did get bite also

my wife tell me she went there, with the Ministry of Agricultue, in 1980 to investigate if the fishing village should be moved

yuh sure dat is a moruga bat?

i took this pic on the beach in Moruga last year.

[WestCoast]

btw: my sister done get suck by a soucoyant a few times when we use to holiday in Moruga.

Dem fuh real boy.   

dais from bats man
my cousin did get bite also

my wife tell me she went there, with the Ministry of Agricultue, in 1980 to investigate if the fishing village should be moved

yuh sure dat is a moruga bat?

i took this pic on the beach in Moruga last year.

waz dat?
moruga chicken

Just KIDDING people

I ent hearin no talks about Phantoms
day used to straddle de road and not let cars pass
at least up in the top of Maraval we had dat

[Bakes]

I've heard similar stories....I was actually waiting for the part where he lit the match 

He lit de match and she disappear at the same time

West Coast I'm aware of that... the "ah light ah match and *poof* she vanish saying 'yuh lucky, yuh geh way tonight' " is a paradigm of the Soucouyant (Sucriant) stories.  It's so predictable that I was waiting on it.

Hope that helps.

[WestCoast]

I've heard similar stories....I was actually waiting for the part where he lit the match 

He lit de match and she disappear at the same time

West Coast I'm aware of that... the "ah light ah match and *poof* she vanish saying 'yuh lucky, yuh geh way tonight' " is a paradigm of the Soucouyant (Sucriant) stories.  It's so predictable that I was waiting on it.
Hope that helps.

oh shit man
dais a nice *WHOOSH* ya geh meh, oui
I shoulda kno you by now
my bad

[Sando prince]

pecan is there a book published ? Because I for one would purchase this.

Moruga especially La Lune has a spot in my life's history. I've spent several August vacations there and believe me, they are very fond memories. Some I hope to tell my grand kids about one day.

From the RC Church straight down to the lagoon to climbing tree and seeing La Diablesse....to eating wild meat, rice and pigeon peas...lawd

thanks for the read pecan

  dem treess you climb musbe was too high for yuh ..cause yuh start seeing shit

well yeah dat make sense...ah was seeing you too.

Sando babes doh go dere nuh...doh tell me what i did or didn't see.
we go leave dat right dere

Look yuh already start to tote...All these folklore stories does get in allyuh head so much that it becomes allyuh reality...Anyway Cana ah glad that ting didnt follow yuh up de tree

[pecan]

Tale Number 2

[WestCoast]

Nice one Pecan

people in TnT used to call "SeaCow", mermaids.

[Queen Macoomeh]

Pecan I want to read these when there is nothing clamouring for my attention. I don't like to read people work in a hurry, dais bad manners. This whole week was a nightmare with me running around like a chicken with a head cold and no head. 

[pecan]

Tale Number 3











Note on the spelling of Dwen

"Dwen" is commonly spelled "Douen".  But we think that both forms are right (or there is no correct form). Patois, or the creole French spoken in the islands, was never a written language i.e. it was learned and passed on through speech only. Just as Trini speak is creole English, so today as we try to write it down, there is disagreement on whether it should be spelled phonetically, or as if it was French.

As far as these tales are concerned, the important thing is to be consistent.  The author grew up spelling it phonetically and the play "Moruga in June" has adopted that spelling.  So for consistency, "Dwen" is the chosen spelling in these stories.

Pecan

[Deeks]

Guys,
                 Don't stop this thread!. We want more...... More, more, more.....!!!!!

[Organic]

Pecan these stories are really really good. the content is consistent true to the culture. the nostalgia it brings back..with some of the expressions and sayings is heart warming.
classic trini
 thanks man
keep them coming

[matapèl]

Guys,
                 Don't stop this thread!. We want more...... More, more, more.....!!!!!

I have some stories that were told be me by my grandparents, anyway according to them the La Diablesse was a curse on some béké families (white planters) as well as a form a form of revenge on Africans who did them wrong in the past. Also some of the folklore that I heard as been forgotten by people living outside of Creole speaking areas. I will post the stories when I get the chance don't worry wonderful thread!