The Adze: West Africa’s Vampiric Firefly Spirit
A Flicker in the Night The night is quiet in a village of the Ewe people of West Africa. Lanterns have been blown out, fires reduced to embers. Then a strange light appears — small, darting, flickering like a firefly. A child stirs restlessly in their sleep, fever rising, lips murmuring incoherent words. Outside, […]