The Singing Skull: An Afro-Venezuelan Folktale That Teaches Lessons on Greed and Respect for the Dead
Along Venezuela’s northern coast, where the sea presses endlessly against mangrove roots and fishing villages rise and fall with the tides, stories are carried as carefully as heirlooms. In Afro-Venezuelan communities, the boundary between the living and the dead is not distant. Ancestors are remembered, spoken to, and honored, and objects tied to them are treated with caution and respect.
