Country guides across Northern America, Central America, the Caribbean and Greenland.
🇧🇧 Barbadian Superstitions
Barbados has an unusually well-documented body of modern folk belief for a Caribbean island. G. Addinton...
🇧🇸 Bahamian Superstitions
The Bahamas does not have one single body of superstition shared evenly across every island. Bahamian...
🇧🇿 Belizean Superstitions
Belizean folklore does not form one uniform national belief system. Yucatec Maya communities in northern Belize...
🇨🇦 Canadian Superstitions
Canada does not have a single national body of superstition: traditions differ sharply by province, language,...
🇨🇷 Costa Rican Superstitions
Costa Rica has a well-documented vocabulary for folk belief, including the word agüizote, commonly used for...
🇨🇺 Cuban Superstitions
Cuban folklorists were recording children’s omens, household warnings, legends, songs, and supernatural beliefs in Havana, Santiago...
🇩🇲 Dominican (Dominica) Superstitions
Dominica’s recorded folk beliefs are closely tied to Kwéyòl oral culture, Kalinago knowledge, agriculture, fishing, forests,...
🇩🇴 Dominican Superstitions
Dominican folkloric records preserve a distinctive set of stories about backward-footed ciguapas, shape-shifting galipotes, water-dwelling beings,...
🇬🇩 Grenadian Superstitions
Grenada’s oral traditions preserve French Creole names such as Sukuyant and Lajablesse alongside Carriacou’s ancestor-centred Big...
🇬🇱 Greenlandic Superstitions
Greenlandic folk belief grew from Kalaallit and other Greenlandic Inuit understandings of a landscape in which...
🇬🇹 Guatemalan Superstitions
Guatemala is home to 22 officially recognized Maya languages, and its folk beliefs vary sharply between...
🇭🇳 Honduran Superstitions
Honduran folk belief is not a single national system. An ethnographic study by the Universidad Nacional...
🇭🇹 Haitian Superstitions
Haitian Kreyòl carries a large vocabulary for dreams, spirits, protective objects, inherited obligations, and unusual events,...
🇯🇲 Jamaican Superstitions
Jamaican folklore gives the dead a familiar name: duppy, a word that appears beside River Mumma,...
🇱🇨 Saint Lucian Superstitions
Saint Lucian folklore survives in stories as well as in distinctive Kwéyòl words such as ladjablès,...
🇲🇽 Mexican Superstitions
Mexico’s Indigenous linguistic landscape includes 68 language groupings and 364 recognized variants, so a belief recorded...
🇳🇮 Nicaraguan Superstitions
Nicaraguan folk belief is not a single national system: the night legends associated with León and...
🇵🇦 Panamanian Superstitions
Panamanian folklore preserves a remarkably specific vocabulary for supernatural beings: La Tulivieja, chivatos, duendes, the Cilampa,...
🇸🇻 Salvadoran Superstitions
El Salvador’s documented folklore is especially rich in night-road figures, water-edge apparitions, shape-shifters, protective practices, and...
🇹🇹 Trinidadian Superstitions
Trinidad’s folklore preserves French-Creole figures such as La Diablesse, Papa Bois, Mama D’Leau, and Lagahoo alongside...
🇺🇸 United States Superstitions
The United States does not have one uniform set of superstitions. An American Folk-Lore Society volume...
🇻🇨 Vincentian Superstitions
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines preserves folk belief in unusually place-bound forms: cemetery lights known as...
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