v Papa Bois
As his name implies, he is the father or protector of the forest and its inhabitants. While more recent folk tales depict him as a fairly benevolent figure, the old stories reveal a being whose vengeance is a thing to be dreaded by hunters. He is sometimes described as a faun-like creature, sometimes as a man, but he roams the forests of Trinidad and Tobago in the form of a large stag (yes, for all who wondered, there are deer on this island that are native to our forests). He protects those in his care from wanton destruction and has been known to take forecful steps to evict, harm, perhaps kill a hunter who had incurred his wrath.
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