A Haitian woman featured in a viral video is being accused of causing the death of a 4-year-old girl through witchcraft. The claims stemmed from an incident involving her going to an Atlanta-based salon owned by the child’s mother with chicken blood in her hair. In the video, the woman is sitting inside Yasmindolltrap’s salon while wearing a white head wrap stained with what was described as chicken’s blood.
The woman, later identified as Ky Stewart, arrived that day to have her hair washed and styled. The footage was reportedly recorded by the owner and stylist, Adeanah Francis. During the video, the stylist instructs one of her workers to wash the substance from the client’s hair. The employee appears hesitant when told the liquid was chicken’s blood, but proceeds with the task.
Later in the clip, Stewart happily flaunts her new hairstyle. The video did not go viral until the news of the child’s passing hit the internet. According to a report, Francis’s 4-year-old daughter was found at the bottom of a pool in northeast Miami-Dade County on March 5.
When she was retrieved, she was unresponsive and was later pronounced dead at a hospital. The ordeal happened not long after the salon video was posted on social media. Following the tragedy, Francis posted multiple emotional messages on Facebook mourning the loss.
In the post, Francis wrote that each day she wakes up and has to face the painful reality that her daughter is gone. She described feeling empty and questioned why such a tragedy had happened to her family, saying she had never harmed anyone and that her child did not deserve such a fate.
She also informed clients that all salon appointments had been cancelled as she mourns the loss of her daughter and asked supporters to keep her family in their prayers while giving them space to grieve.
As the news spread online, so did the salon video. It attracted significant attention from viewers across social media platforms and prompted a wave of rumours online linking the two events. Many users began blaming the woman seen in the salon video. Rumours circulated claiming that the chicken’s blood in her hair was part of a ritual and that allowing others to wash it out could cause harm or misfortune to those who handled it.
The allegations spread rapidly across social media, with some users accusing the client of intentionally bringing harm to the salon. However, both the client and the stylist have publicly rejected the claims.
Ky Stewart on Facebook, who also goes by ‘Known as Aries’ on TikTok, said the accusations were false and harmful. In posts online, Stewart said she practises Santería, a spiritual tradition, but insisted that she does not engage in evil practices. She explained that the chicken’s blood was part of a spiritual cleansing ritual she performed before taking a passport photo.
She said her original plan was to wash and blow-dry her hair before arriving at the salon, but her spiritual adviser instructed her to leave the substance in her hair for about an hour. She said she was a regular at the salon, and Francis filmed her, believing the unusual situation would make engaging content for social media. She added that she never expected the video would attract such negative attention.
Francis also addressed the rumours, urging people online to stop linking the video to her daughter’s death. In a statement posted to social media, she said the salon video was filmed weeks earlier in Atlanta, but she only recently decided to share the video online. She also highlighted that her daughter’s drowning happened in Florida, emphasising the difference in locations and time.
“Y’all have to stop,” she wrote. “I did this girl hair weeks ago. My child drowned in Florida. Please take my child off y’all pages.” 