Woman Lynched as Vampire

An elderly woman in the South American country of Guyana was accused by a crowd of being an "Old Higue", an evil spirit that drinks the blood of babies. A higue is said to be able to assume the form of an old woman and shrink itself to enter a victim's home through a keyhole.

This is utter nonsense since we all know that vampires can't enter a victim's home without an invitation so the shrinking power really wouldn't do much good. Second, if you can change shape, why pick the form of an old woman? Yeah, it makes you look less threatening to potential victims but still. Third, witch hunts by their nature failed to capture real witches (or in this case vampires) because a real creature of dark power would utilize that power to escape. Such hunts only caught the wrongfully accused and, as Anya on Buffy would say, things never go well for them.

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