La Llorona – Mexico
Scorned women is a trope familiar all over the world, which is probably why there are so many of them in Latino horror culture. Though there are variations in La Llorona’s origins, there are a few things that remain the same
https://remezcla.com/lists/culture/13-terrifing-spooky-and-awesome-latin-american-horror-monsters-legends/
La Llorona was told to tell kids to not go out at night and wonder off themselves if they don’t want La Llorona to come after them. The Mexican version of La Llorona is that a beautiful woman named Maria, who drowns her two children because her husband loses interest in her. Another version, is that the husband left her for another women, and after killing her own children and herself; she wasn’t able to go to heaven or hell because she needed to find her kids. So, now she wanders looking for her children and you could hear her crying or yelling ¡Aaay mis hijos!.
El Silbón – Colombia and Venezuela
“The Whistler” is a truly disturbing legend from the llanos, the eastern plains bordering Venezuela.
https://seecolombia.travel/blog/2014/10/top-5-spooky-colombian-myths-and-legends/
El Silbón is both a Colombian and a Venezuelan legend. The legend is that a wicked young man killed his own father in an angry rage because he didn’t bring home a deer heart that he was craving. So, he brought back his fathers organs; but his family knew that he did something evil so his brother punished by whipping, throwing hot pepper on the wounds, and then sent an angry dog after him. Now, if you hear El Silbón whistle near you its probably to late for you. El Silbón carries a bag full of bones and the “most sighting of El Silbón are by drunk men stumbling around at night.” But, there’s a few thing his still afraid of which is a whip, hot pepper, and a rabid dog.
La Ciguapa – Dominican Republic
La Ciguapa is a wild and magical creature with the looks of a mountain siren.
https://listverse.com/2014/11/27/10-horrifying-legends-from-latin-america/
La Ciguapa is seen as a beautiful women or a horrendous being and La Ciguapa has her feet are turned backward. If a man finds her, he will fall in love in with her. La Ciguapa will have sexual intercourse with a man in the night and after that La Ciguapa will kill the man. If La Ciguapa falls in love with a man; her night howl will be a harbinger of doom to the man partner. During, a full moon a man has a black and white dog as a companion and that’s when a man has a chance to capture La Ciguapa. A lot of the authors place her origin around the colonial times or pre-Hispanic times.
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