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]
In popular culture
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.
Notes
- "Caribbean Folklore", Africa Speaks.
- Courtesy The Heritage Library via the Trinidad Guardian
- Hans E. A. Boos, The Snakes of Trinidad and Tobago, 2001, p. 81.
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