Talk:Amazon coven/@comment-98.112.97.147-20130501003938/@comment-4950212-20170723090918

Firstly, African slaves that where brought from Africa who managed to escape either from their plantation, before they were sold at the stock yards or manage to jump from the boat and make it to land tended to end up (if not dead) in what is Florida, Latin American and South American (places like Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, upper South America and the islands in the Caribbean as well as Jamaica, Brazil, Colombia, Belize, Suriname, and French Guiana) (check out tv shows like: Black Sails). Brazilians also descend from slaves (called Maroons at the time) brought from West Central African ports  brought to directly to Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela between 1501 to 1866. Slave labor during that time was the main driving force during that time to work on sugar plantations but also to work in diamond and gold mines. Brazil was the last country in the Western world to abolish slavery and its estimated that more than four million slaves where imported from Africa to Brazil with 40% of them going to the Americas.



Slaves that would manage to escape before colonists interrogated them into their society escaped into the Amazon forest and because they were already adapted forest/rain forest and the sort many of them where about the safety live in the Amazon and like American slaves that were freed or escaped onto Indian territory they lived and interbreed with them as well as took each other skills and knowledge to protect themselves. I'm guess that Kachiri, Zafrina and Senna families escaped into the forest into the pântano, also known as the pantanal, and interrogated with a local Indigenous peoples in Brazil.



I've always headcanon this and also that Zafrina is a descent of a West African griot (historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician), possibly her father also was and taught her storytelling and because her storytelling was so descriptive, convincing and inducing (almost magical) when she became a vampire she gained the power of visual/illusion projection. Well that's my input.