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Three Short West Indian Folk Tales.


Three Short West Indian West In·dies  

An archipelago between southeast North America and northern South America, separating the Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean and including the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahama Islands.
 Folk Tales

Gregory Thorne For people named Thorne, see .  

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Gregory Thorne is a native of Trinidad, raised with older siblings siblings npl (formal) → frères et sœurs mpl (de mêmes parents)  and his grandparents grandparents nplabuelos mpl

grandparents grand nplgrands-parents mpl

grandparents grand npl
: he heard the three short stories in this collection from his relatives, and in Three Short West Indian Folk Tales pre-sents them for general readers. 'Black Water' is a folk story from Guyana and seeks to apply legend to the disappearances of swimmers, the other two Trinidad stories survey the legend of a deadly woman wraith and an isolated village woman who may drink blood.
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Date:May 1, 2005
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