The ghost of an aborted fetus, the Bolom is one of the ’s assistants. When the Devil wants to pose a challenge to , , and , it is the Bolom who shows up at their house to deliver the message. The boys’ longs to give the Bolom the love and care that his own mother, who aborted him, wasn’t able to, but the Bolom is so hurt and traumatized by his experience with his own mother that he rejects this. But when beats the Devil, the Bolom begs Ti-Jean to ask the Devil to grant him life, and he does. At the end of the story, the Bolom is finally born, and it is implied that he goes to live with Ti-Jean and his mother.