Status Updates From Brown Girl in the Ring

“The African powers, child. The spirits. The loas. The orishas. The oldest ancestors. You will hear people from Haiti, Cuba, Brazil and so call them different names. Them is the ones who does carry we prayers to God Father, for he too busy to listen to every single one of we on earth talking at he all the time. And no matter what we call it, Santeria or Voudun (etc), we all doing the same thing. Serving the spirits."

Learnt about some folklore

Good so far, going to take my time with this one. Enamoured with the different dialects, especially the Caribbean ones as they remind me of my grandparents.

“And how come oonuh nah use a swine heart? Ain’t is that you have all them pig farms for?”