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Haiti Literary Mythic Stories

What are some of the local stories of myth that are popular in Haiti that are often told within Haiti literature are recited by Haiti children?

Stories Mythic Literary Haiti

Name: Babwa
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Comments: Haiti has many stories of myth and the children know many of them. Haiti has the religious rituals of voodoo and from this are many stories.

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Long ago when only beast roam the forest land, the God then change this animal into men and teach them how how to build a house and live together, But Ti Malice who are lazy, dont help in building the house, the other animal complain that if he don't help then he won't be allowed in the house either during raining, storm, and even during sunshine.

Seeing the house almost complete Ti Malice get curious and envious, he want to check the inside of the house but get blocked and threatened to be killed if he try again by other animal, so during night he slip in while hiding and claim to be the God and claim it as his own and told them to leave the house or suffer the consequence from the house falling over them, the animal panic and quickly scram out of the house, except Uncle Bouqui who back to sleep but grumblingly goes out after being warned for second time, the next morning the animal start a meeting and ask two cat to check the house to see what really happen, but Ti Malice saw them from a distance and trying to trick them to keep the house by asking them to shave his hair and tongue for rada dance, and he say he want to do the same to the cat, except during the process Ti Malice quickly cut one of the cat tongue and throat and missed another who run away deeper into the forest never return to tell the other animal and develop PTSD to only hunt chicken, while the one that the tongue and throat get cut manage to meet the other animal but unable to tell and die right after, scaring the animal even more to make them never come near house again.