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Parchment-style illustration of a girl meeting Papa Legba at a crossroads, Haitian folktale.

The Mother Who Sold Her Daughter to the Lwa

In the hard years when hunger lingered like a shadow over the land, there lived a woman whose poverty pressed upon her more heavily than the heat of the sun. She owned no fields, no animals, and no family who could help her. When she discovered she was with child, fear filled her heart, for she could barely keep herself

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