Latin America is full of colorful stories and although some are more macabre than others, in the end they all offer us a sample of the beliefs and culture of the countries from which they originate.Discover four legends that will make your hair tip.
4 chilling Latin American legends (Part VI)
1.The Pombero (Uruguay and Paraguay)
This is a leprechaun described by some in Paraguay as a blond boy, who walks through the trees with a cane in his hand, kidnapping other children .Other versions paint him instead as an old man Red-skinned with only one eye in the middle of the forehead, they also say that he has a dog's teeth, long arms and very large hands.
The Pombero has a strong sexual appetite and therefore stalks the women that they go alone in the countryside, especially those who have not been baptized.Also, curiously, they say that she violates the wives who publicly question her husband's virility.Well...It also often causes disasters and disorders in the homes of the peasants, so they leave offerings of tobacco, honey or cigarettes to appease him.
2.La Mocuana (Nicaragua)
Legend has it that a beautiful woman who had a child fell in love with a young man from another People, who asked him to abandon his baby.He did it and his baby lost his life.Repentant, after his death La Mocuana looks for the newborn children to replace the baby he abandoned .
The parents of their victims leave gold as a souvenir.
3.Numsipode (Brazil)
In the Brazilian state of Piau, precisely in its capital, the city of Teresina, there is a story that It scares the locals, the old people say that in the square in front of the church of Our Lady of Sorrows, a woman appears after midnight.
Dressed in white, the woman scares her victim by quickly appearing behind the walker and asks for fire to light a cigarette.Numsipode, whose name comes from the phrase that the victims say before the horror "Num-Si-Pode" (Não-se-Pode, which means you can't) expect no response to your request and supernaturally grows, becoming so high that you can light the cigarette in the lanterns that lit up the small square.If the victim does not run away, it is eaten by the spectrum .
4.La Candileja (Venezuela and Colombia)
In the Colombian and Venezuelan plains the story of is told A woman who, deranged by jealousy, murders her husband in front of her young children.Years later, when her children are already adults, the woman falls in love with the child, who escapes from her mother's unnatural attention.
This spectrum takes the form of a burning flame and attracts the llaneros, who approach thinking that it is a campfire and get lost forever in the savannah.
Do you dare to know more Lationamerican legends, tremendously chilling?
-4 Chilling Latin American legends (Part I)
-5 Chilling Latin American legends (Part II)
-4 Chilling Latin American legends (Part III)
-4 Chilling Latin American legends (Part IV)
-4 Chilling Latin American legends (Part V)
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