Elements of the fantastic in Songs of Solomon seem to present themselves most frequently through the character Pilate Dead. From the first moment the audience is introduced to her she is singing, "O sugarman done fly away/ Sugarman cut across the sky/ Sugarman gone home…,” (Morrison, 6). In this moment, she presents as a siren urging Robert Smith to his death with her voice. It is as if she is wielding power beyond that of a human. She is something unnatural, something with powers beyond that of a human. More importantly she repeats this song about flight, a significant motif, many times throughout the novel. Flight obviously represents freedom, the ability to escape. That freedom seems to be associated most with Pilate. Milkman learned “at
