THE BEAST OF THE HAITIAN HILLS

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Authors of Canape Vert and winner of the 2nd South American contest, write again of the development of fear and terror through peasant superstition and training. A city dweller, Morin, achieves his ambition to become a planter. His coming to Musseau, his drinking, his lack of sympathy with local customs, and his final sacrilege in destroying a sacred tree, unleash the Cigouave, beast of death and destruction. Driven away by the conviction of the community that the influence of the beast is in every incident, Morin returns to the city but can find no peace. He comes again to Musseau and is driven to death by the beast....The power of evil spirits of mass psychology, of Haitian rites and customs, this captures again the dark drama, mystic hysteria of the Negroes close to the land.

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Publisher: Reinhart

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1946

Categories: FICTION