Bahamian Folklore
Bahamian Folklore
Women Don’t Forget, No not even in Death
Bahamian Folklore research by: Michael Elijah Muhammad Clare.
Back in the early days of The Bahamas, the elders warned cruel husbands with a chilling tale. They said that if a man ever harmed his wife or if she died brokenheartedly from his abuse, her spirit would not rest.
She would linger in the roof of his home, unseen but always near, waiting.
Some nights, a soft creak above would mark her approach. A cold draft would brush past, carrying the scent of old clothes, and death.
And if he dared sleep, he would wake to find her deceased hands wrapped around his throat, stopping his breath.
This tormented spirit did not rest with him alone, any other man who entered that house risked her wrath.
Many men in The Bahamas have on record died in their sleep without known cause. The elders still say it was the woman in the ceiling above, and that anyone moving into a home should first learn its history.
Those who ignored the warnings often died quietly in their beds; others woke with scratch marks on their necks, bruises appearing on their bodies with no explanation. All lessons learned at the hands or presence, of a spirit that had mastered vengeance even in death.
The elders of the 1920s said this advice was never an idle threat. It was fact.
And the same raw strength that all women display in childbirth. That power, they said, only multiplies after death from abuse or a broken heart.
Bahama Drama says, respect it, or pay the price.
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