Mama D'Leau

Mama D'Leau (derived from the French Maman de l'eau or "Mother of the River"), also known as Mama Dlo and Mama Glo,[1] is the protector and healer of all river animals, according to the folklore of Trinidad and Tobago. She is usually depicted as a beautiful woman with long hair, who sits on upper body and arms and from her waist downwards twists into coils. Her tongue becomes forked and she holds a golden comb which she passes through her snaky hair.[2][3]

gollark: I have Desmos. It can plot arbitrary things very fast.
gollark: Anyway. Yes. Graphing calculators are *pure* bee, because they cost about as much as my somewhat low-end phone, despite being worse in basically every way except being allowed into exams.
gollark: Probably.
gollark: I don't have one because they're expensive and I disagree with the entire concept of graphing calculators.
gollark: Some of the fancier graphing models' polynomial solver things go up to a degree of 6 for unfathomable reasons, but they are probably approximatizing.

See also

Notes
  1. "Caribbean Folklore", Africa Speaks.
  2. Courtesy The Heritage Library via the Trinidad Guardian
  3. Hans E. A. Boos, The Snakes of Trinidad and Tobago, 2001, p. 81.


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