A peculiar bit of twentieth-century Haitian folklore tells the story of spiritualism, slavery, and the sense of smell in the context of an African child’s dreamworld. The tale summarizes the racial perspectives of a dark-skinned slave boy named Tabou whose mother, who had also birthed a free and light-skinned brother with her master, finds her son solemnly eating peppered fish on the banks of a Hispaniola stream. The child tells his mother that he feels increasingly distanced from his brethren, as many diasporic tales explicate in binaries based on twins and/or siblings.