La Diablesse (The Devil Woman of the Road)
La Diablesse (French for the she-devil) is a seductive yet deadly spirit in Trinidadian and West Indian folklore. She appears as a breathtakingly beautiful woman -- usually tall, light-skinned, with long flowing black hair and piercing eyes -- wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a flowing white, black, or red dress that conceals her horrifying secret: one leg ends in a cloven cow hoof instead of a human foot. She waits by the roadside at night, particularly near bridges, crossroads, and remote forest paths, and bewitches men (especially those returning from dances or rum shops) with her beauty and