The Curse of Mama D’leau

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ahoi, and welcome aboard the Afro-Tails package.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am in Greel, a mind-mazinger.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here to guide you through captivating tales rooted in the histories of indigenous and African distinct peoples across the Americas and the Caribbean.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the journey that is not in doubt, I, Chef, will share a delicious recipe and inspired by the stories you have just had.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, with no further ado, let us set sail on this new age of exploration.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Curse of Mamdhulok.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is well known on the tropical islands that the water people are the creatures who dwell in the murky rivers and black creeks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They are the ones who protect the fishes and waters

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[SPEAKER_00]: teaming with tree firms.

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[SPEAKER_00]: These creatures are the fairy maids and mermaids whose lives and powers are inextricably linked to the creatures of the forest.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Clute waters, put down in harm to animals, and you'll find yourself at the mercy of the Mount de Lowe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a story of one man who found out the hard way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tomas of male village was a young man with ambitions behind his 20 years of age.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He'd grown up hearing stories about the Murphlk,

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[SPEAKER_00]: He'd been told about Mount Glove, whose name means warmer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Known as the fierce protector of the rivers, she is half woman, and half seeservant, and the islanders believe she will punish anyone who polluted the waters, for harm the fish.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is said that mom and lowe is a lover of Papa Boy, the man with the gohorns and hooves, who protect the forest and its animals.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Together they rule over the wild creatures that blend between all world and theirs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The realm, where spirits and magic coexist.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Despite this belief which had to flourish from myths carried to the islands by enslaved Africans generations before, Tomas paid no attention to the warnings.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He had made up in his mind that his fortune could be made by hunting and trapping the fish in force animals.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He knew that money could be made from those eager to buy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to get a rich real quick, to most would say to his friends that they hung out down by the river.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just plenty of fish and these rivers and deer to hunt in the forest.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He could see an abundance of the king fisher birds and ducklings scurrying around.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There were ripples of war made from all the fishes circling down below and he began to plan how to keep capture as much wildlife as possible and sell it in the villages.

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[SPEAKER_00]: his father and grandfather were seen in, taking their vessels out to see at night, wild fish and equally wild stories of creatures hunting the seas.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They told Tomas that his ambitions were reckless, and tried to warn him that semen fished further out at sea for a reason.

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[SPEAKER_00]: grandfather who was sipping rum on his friend at one night, leaned in to Thomas and said in a hushed tones, you graved old and get none at all, no boy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But Thomas was of a new generation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He had courage and stubbornness, jettling out from his young jaw.

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[SPEAKER_00]: grandfather.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't believe in any of that old time foolishness he replied, I am a man of vision.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I make my own destiny.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Later that night, when the moon bit of the waters, with its soft glow, Thomas laid his fishing traps in the river.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He waited in and dropped his net filled with bait, tied the line to a huge rock on the edge of the river bank.

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[SPEAKER_00]: no one on land saw him come or go and the next day his net was filled with shimmering fish, wriggling and recalling as he pulled the men.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Overjoyed at his bounty to my soul to the fish in the market the next day people marveled at his plentiful catch fish with scales the full

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bluefish, yellow, tail, snapper, silver, Tlappia, word soon spread it to my soul, the best variety of fish.

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[SPEAKER_00]: From where do you get your fish, Miss Jacobs?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What a nice size they are!

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm flory, later fingers after eating some fried fish at her neighbor's house.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Art Floor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I travel all the way down the male village market to buy from to miles the fish in it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He has fish as long as y'all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She exclaimed, stretching out her hands and exaggeration.

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[SPEAKER_00]: People traveled from neighbouring villages to buy from Tomas, and he continued to set his traps at night when he thought no one was around, except someone was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mom and the low was biting her time down below the surface of the river.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She sat in her underwater kingdom, resplendent with palaces of littering core reefs and sea grass.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ferrymades circled her golden throne, waiting to do her bidding.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mamda Lowe's eyes shone with vengeance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She cracked her long, blue, serpent tale, like a horse whip, and soon chose one of her fair made to deliver a curse to Tomas.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fairy may go and dare that greedy man to let my river be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There are plenty of fish in the ocean and plenty of fish in the sea.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If I can't see anywhere near my riverbed, I'm all rational for all eternity.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and then make him wish he was dead then.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That very night when Tomas visited his spine by the riverbank, he saw the silhouette of a young woman with her back then, lounging on the rocks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She was combing her thick blocks of black hair with a golden cone, blind with sparkling jewels that blended at him through the darkness.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He cannot see her face, but his eyes traced the outline of her body, which curved down from her hips into the shape of a giant fish tail.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All of the stories his family had told him were true.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here was a fairy made, with precious jewels in her hand.

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[SPEAKER_00]: His mind raised a head to all of the wealth he could gain by capturing her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He approached as quietly as he could and held out his long fishing to grab her by the hair.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Her voice sliced through the air, holding his stride.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She turned and held him in her steely gaze.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I come, but the message from Mama Below, Protecting, other rivers, and all creatures below.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She delivered the curse and prepared to dive back into the river.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tomas did not care about the threat of Momatelo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was transfixed by the fairy-made and had to have her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He learned that her with his fish, which grabbed onto her hair.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He began to wind the hair tightly around his hook and it walked towards her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In an instant, the fairy made shapeshitted and transformed him to a hissing, snarling black cat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: with how stretch claws she sprang onto Tom's shoulder.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He grabbed her by the body and was about to shove her into his bag when she shaped ship again into a trickling stream of water that slid back into the river fleeing right before his eyes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thomas was furious with himself that he had not

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[SPEAKER_00]: He spent the next few days plotting about all the various traps he could lay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I could lower a cage down into the river, and she'll swim into it, he thought.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I could hang a net over the trees, ready to drop if she sits on the rock down below.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was oblivious to what was happening in his village.

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[SPEAKER_00]: People were becoming sick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One by one men, women and children were finding themselves confined to the beds with a terrible fever.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Soon, people and neighbouring villages became ill and the symptoms were similar.

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[SPEAKER_00]: After eating a meal of fish, they felt violently sick, vomiting up all that they had eaten

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[SPEAKER_00]: their next few days were spent with a raging fever of hot and cold chills.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The sickness spread across the island, twisting and turning in the directions of the sea breeze, shops, and schools were closed, parks were empty and the markets were soulless without the banter of bargaining villages.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Fishermen were their only sellers untouched by the illness.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They sat under umbrellas on their stalls, sheltering them from a scorching sun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: An abundance of fish left over at the end of each market day meant no money was made.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No one was buying or eating fish.

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[SPEAKER_00]: one evening, the fishermen gather together by the sea wall to discuss what could be done.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The tide drifted in bringing the salty air and gentle sounds of black and waves to mingle with their terrified voices.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What are we going to do everyone who gets fish and gets sick?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're not sick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It can't be the fish.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a curse on us fishermen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: said one old man, who had lived through many unexplained events.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Why would we be cursed?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Who have we angered?

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[SPEAKER_00]: They cried.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Many turned their backs in this misty old man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My grandson, Tomas, has been fishing in the river.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Draining it, holds the wildlife.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly, he had their attention, as he reminded them of the curse of Mamadro.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tomas waved his hand away when the men rounded on him, raising their voices and accusing him of bringing the curse upon all their heads.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You need to stop fishing in the river for all our sakes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but it is grandfather.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The meeting came to a close with no resolution.

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[SPEAKER_00]: To my stormed off, with thoughts of the fairy-made filling his mind.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The next morning, he set off early before sunrise, while the red howler monkeys were bellowing in the trees.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The sea was combed

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[SPEAKER_00]: With only a hanging light to forge his way in the darkness, Tomas headed toward a small room where he thought something or someone was languishing on the rocks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: His eyes had not deceived him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was indeed the fairy-made who had crept out from the waterfall cave.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was overjoyed and quickly grabbed his long stick which he fashioned into a harpoon with a sharp metal spear tied at the end.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He stood up and threw the harpoon at the fairy maid's heart, piercing her naked flesh, silence, and then the brittle crunch of her bones breaking under the weight of his weapon.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thomas lost his balance as the sea began to swirl around him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The calm waters were suddenly roaring with white capped waves gathering pace in the distance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He grabbed onto the mast of his boat and zid rot, violently from side to side, then he saw her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Emerging

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[SPEAKER_00]: crest of a wave.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Her long black dreadlocks were twisting and thrashing, like vicious snakes around her head.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tomas closed his eyes and heard the deafening crack of a whip as her long serpent tail buffeted the sea.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Tomas, your ears are too high.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mama Glow called out above the sound of the waves, reminding him that he refused to listen to her warning, and now he would pay the price.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She raised up her heavy serpentail and lashed it down upon his boat splitting it into two.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thomas fell into the water, kicking his legs and fighting to reach the surface.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He clutched a raft of floating wood as the waves battered him from every direction.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So water poured into his eyes and lungs, stinging him with merciless venom.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mamadlo, twisted, her heavy tail around him, snapping his body into tiny splinters, which she threw to all corners of the island.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She hissed before sinking back down to the depths of her underwater kingdom, carrying the lifeless body of the fairy-made with her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is said that the curse was lifted from the island that day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Health came back to the people who had been eating the river fish, and trust was gradually restored in the fishermen and their bounty.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thomas's boat was never found, and he was never heard from again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Some say he found his fame in fortune elsewhere.

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[SPEAKER_00]: says that Mom and the Lord sacked it, her price for, fouling the river, and farming its creatures.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I say, step on a pin, the pin bent, and that's the way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The story went.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The end.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, wow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is another great story for one of my favorite writers, Windy Sharia.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Comes from the book, Caribbean Folk Tales, stories from the islands and the Wind Rush generation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mamdollo, Mamma Glow, I try to say Glow, as best as possible, is a

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[SPEAKER_00]: being that I have wanted to do a story on for, do the story of quite very, very long time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just love her, look in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I picture her, and I'm pretty sure everybody else does.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, she's some people say she's a mermaid, but even in the story, it's a serpent tale, or serpent teen tale, that she has.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So she's more like, if you guys know what a naga is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling my age here, if you've seen the golden child, and you remember the lady behind the,

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[SPEAKER_00]: behind the shade was half woman half snake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a naga.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So mom and I was a type of naga in a GA for anybody that wants to search it out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But she's a Caribbean one, from Trinidad, specifically you definitely find her stories in the Trinidad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She has another story I believe about her and a golden comb and I think one about a golden table in Jamaica, which I will definitely try to find those and read them to you, this story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just it just speaks to me, my heart and that people don't like to listen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My mom is telling me, you know, this thing is across the world at this point that a hard head makes a soft rear end, even though she would, you know, use the other term for donkey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that is very true about Tomas here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was heartheaded.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He thought he knew what was best and didn't want to listen to those that came before him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we get told things by our parents.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we get told things by our parents about life and how things were when they were young and you know, I'll probably saying the same thing to my kids and my grandkids.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't listen, and my kids probably won't listen to me and my grandkids won't listen neither or to them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we just hope that when they go out and make the mistakes as we have and as our parents did, that the mistakes aren't so bad that they can't be fixed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: through the story, one of the, to me, one of the messages, it's okay to go out and make a mistake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But try not to have the mistakes, be so bad that you cannot recover from it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In this particular situation, Tomas went out, little too eager, didn't want to listen and made a mistake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then he was warned.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and was told how to fix that mistake, and then he didn't listen, so he paid the price, for not listening.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and that's the way it goes sometimes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes when you don't listen, you only get one warning in life sometimes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And other times you don't get any warning at all, and that sucks, and it sucks bad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I've seen, and we've seen, you know, throughout

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[SPEAKER_00]: our lives and in the news and everywhere where a mistake cannot just ruin one life but ruin multiple lives on both ends of the mistake.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A wrongdoing can ruin lives on every aspect of the wrongdoing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No matter who the perpetrator was or the victim was, both sides can lose a lot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, I guess I'm just saying think about your decisions out there, think about not only how you can be affecting the world you live in, but just the lives of other people that

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[SPEAKER_00]: and the lives of those that you do know because you don't know how your decision can bounce back on yourself and on your own family.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So just be careful out there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Get scary sometimes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, until next time, go see Chef, I'm sure he has a wonderful story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, go see Chef.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He has a wonderful recipe for you from Trinidad coming from this story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And now, that was nice it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Go see Chef, I'm sure he has a wonderful recipe inspired by today's story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And until next time, as always, thank you for coming on this voyage with me, share with your family and friends, and as always, have a blessed day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome my friends at the gallery.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am your chef chef and today we have a wonderful recipe inspired by the story of this

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[SPEAKER_00]: Four pounds chicken pieces, whole chicken keta, dyes or drumsticks, washed and drank.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Two tablespoons, green seasoning, one onion, chopped, two tablespoons of minced garlic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Four tablespoons of ketchup, hot pepper to taste, so in pepper to season chicken.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Two tablespoons of oil, half a cup of brown sugar, four scallions chopped, one stock celery diced, three cups of pepper, rice, washed and drained, two cups dry pigeons, peas, one can rinse and drink, one medium, get it diced, or half package, peas and

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[SPEAKER_00]: 1 red bell pepper, 10 times sprigs dropped.

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[SPEAKER_00]: 1 can coconut milk diluted with 3 cups of hot water, salt and pepper to taste.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, how do we put this together?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Easy!

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[SPEAKER_00]: First to prepare the chicken.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If using a whole chicken, cut into 2 inch pieces.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wash with the juice or a lime.

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[SPEAKER_00]: or lemon and several changes of water, drained well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Today check on, at half of the green season, reserving the other half, half a year old, got it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: ketchup, salt, and pepper to taste.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mix well to coat the chicken with the seasonings.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Manning for at least an hour or overnight for best effects.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, heat the oil in a dry large deep heavy bottom pot or Dutch oven over medium heat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Add sugar and allow it to

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[SPEAKER_00]: expand, bubble, and darken, but not black and smokey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If black starts over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you immediately add the seasoned chicken stirring frequently to coat about 5 minutes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Stir in the scallion,

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[SPEAKER_00]: cover and cook until the 70% cooked, stirring occasionally about 15 minutes should do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Rinse rice under running water until water runs clear.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Drain and add the rice to the pot along with the pigeon peas, carrots, chopped bell pepper, and cook staying for 3 minutes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, mix can coconut milk with 3 cups of hot water and add to pot or enough liquid to cover by one inch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Season with salt and pepper to taste mixed well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bring to a boil.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When the liquid

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[SPEAKER_00]: with a cover and cook for about 30 minutes, or until rice is cooked and all the liquid has evaporated.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Star, made way to ensure that it is not sticky, taste and add more salt if required.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that is it, my friends.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Make this recipe yours.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And until I have another one for instance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you remember the warning from my mouth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do not split the fish in half, but it was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And until next time, my friends, as always, enjoy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and that brings an end to another voyage.

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[SPEAKER_00]: May these tales inspire, connect, and nourish your soul, just as Chess dish feels your belly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Until next time, keep exploring, learning, and sharing the ancestors' stories, fair winds, and following seas.