There is a vampiric spirit that exists in the folklore of France, and Trinidad and Tobago that tells of a beautiful vampiric woman wearing a large hat and carrying a fan. Known as La Diablesse (“Devil Woman”), it roams the quiet roads in the form of a woman wearing a long billowing dress to hide her one leg that ends in a cloven hoof.

Any man that La Diablesse meets, it will attempt to charm and lure off the path with sweet promises of a discrete indiscretion. If it succeeds, it will drain the man dry of his blood, leaving his nude body to be found up in a tree or atop a grave in a cemetery. More modern tellings of this vampire say it no longer is content to wander down seldom-used roads but rather has learned that it can slip relatively unnoticed into local celebrations to hunt for men.

Vampires that are very similar to La Diablesse are the LANGSUIR, LEANHAUM-SHEE, MATIANAK, ONOSCÈLES, PONTIANAK, SKOGSFRU, VELES and the WHITE LADIES.

Source: Besson, Folklore and Legends, 12; Cartey, The West Indies, 43; Jones, Evil in Our Midst, 122; Parson, Folk-lore of the Antilles, 75