Mami Wata: African water goddess
Mami Wata is a water goddess who appears in dreams and hallucinations to her devotees.
She bestows money and health on those who ask for it, and
she has a reputation for cursing the wicked with disease.
Petitioners give her perfume and pleasant liquids in
exchange for her signature.
She takes on the form of a mermaid or a lovely lady clothed
in red and white.