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Parchment-style illustration of a backward footprint at a forest edge, from the Trinidadian Douen child spirit legend.

The Douen: The Lost Children of Trinidad

In the soft, purple light of a Trinidadian dusk, when the day creatures grow quiet and the night chorus has not yet begun, a different kind of sound can sometimes be heard from the edge of the forest. It is not the call of a bird or the rustle of an animal. It is a small, plaintive voice, calling a

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