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Mayaguana folklore

Parchment style illustration of dancing ants interrupting a Goombay ceremony in Bahamian folklore.

The Dancing Ants of Mayaguana

On the low, sunburned island of Mayaguana, where the land lies open to sky and sea, there came a season when the rain did not return. Weeks passed beneath a hard blue heaven, and the earth cracked beneath bare feet. Wells thinned, crops withered, and the salt wind carried dust instead of relief. The people of Mayaguana knew drought was

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