Salvadoran legends

1. The Cadejo
The cadejo (Spanish pronunciation: [kaˈðexo]) is a character from Salvadoran, Belizean, Nicaraguan,
Costa Rican, Honduran, Guatemalan and southern Mexican folklore. There is a good white cadejo
and an evil black cadejo. Both are spirits that appear at night to travelers: the white to protect
them from harm during their journey, the black (sometimes an incarnation of the devil), to kill
them.
The legend is this:
In the morning, Juan Carlos was a guardian who lived in a thatched house near Los Arcos, in the
country fields near La Aurora in Guatemala. He worked near Parroquia Vieja and arrived at his
house at midnight. Almost all the time, his wife and small children spend the whole day alone, in
the middle of the fields. Juan found a white dog when he arrived at his house one day. When the
dog saw him coming, it would shake, turn around and disappear. Juan always tried to follow the
dog, but he could never reach him. One day, when he arrived, the white dog never moved, and
when he approached the dog, it did not make a single sound. But then Juan touched his paw, and
all of a sudden it opened his eyes. Juan was scared; the dog said, 'you do not need my help
anymore'. Frightened, Juan exclaimed,'what help'? And the dog said, in pain, 'I am a dog sent from
above. My mission was to protect you from any danger. But you had showed me you do not need
my help anymore.' Right after that, the white dog closed his eyes. Juan buried him, and every time
he came home, he remembered the white dog.
The Sihuanaba
The Sihuanaba, La Siguanaba, Cigua or Cegua is a supernatural character from Central American
folklore. It is a shape-changing spirit that typically takes the form of an attractive, long haired
woman seen from behind. She lures men away into danger before revealing her face to be that of
a horse or, alternatively, a skull.
El Salvador
The Salvadoran legend of La Siguanaba says that the woman, originally called Sihuehuet
(beautiful woman), was a peasant girl that ascended to queen using her charms (and a
witch's brew) to lure into marriage Tlaloc's son, Yeisun, who was a Nahuatl prince. After
marriage, when her husband went to war, she had affairs with other men, and Cipitio was
the child of this relationship. Sihuehuet was a bad mother, neglecting her son, leaving him
alone to meet her lovers. To inherit the throne she concocted a plot to use another magic
potion to poison Yeisun during a festival, and so claim the throne for her lover.
But the plan worked too well. Yeisun was converted in a savage giant monster with two
heads, who ravaged the attendants to the palace's feast. The guard struggled and defeated
the creature, ending Yeisun's life. When Tlaloc found out about this, he sought the help of
the almighty god, Teotl whom condemned and cursed Sihuehuet: She would be called
Sihuanaba ("hideous woman"); she would be beautiful at first sight, but she would turn into
a horrible abomination after luring her victims to isolated gorges. She was forced to wander

2. the countryside, appearing to men who travelled alone at night. She is supposed to be seen
at night in the rivers of El Salvador, washing clothes and always looking for her son,
7Cipitio, who was also cursed by Teotl to remain a boy for eternity.
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El Cipitío
The son of “Sihuet” (La Siguanaba), El Cipitío, is a very popular character in Salvadoran
legends. Originally called “Cipit,” El Cipitio got his name from a Nahuatl word, "Cipote,”
a word used for children in El Salvador. El Cipitio was the illegitimate son of Sihuet and
her lover. As a punishment for her infidelity to the god Tlaloc, he cursed both mother and
child. The mother was condemned to wander the fields as “La Siguanaba” and the boy was
sentenced to eternal youth; he is always depicted as a boy of ten or eleven years old.

Despite being the son of gods, El Citipio dresses like an underprivileged child; he wears a
large straw hat and a blanket over his shoulders that never quite covers his big belly. His
feet are twisted backwards so that if villagers try to follow his footprints, they will walk in
the wrong direction. He is sometimes said to have the power to teleport himself from place
to place as well.

According to some legends, Cipitío whistles and throws pebbles and flowers at beautiful
girls that go alone to wash clothes in the rivers. While some may find this annoying, many
young girls are flattered that Cipitio has singled them out since he only bothers the most
beautiful girls. It is rumored that when Citipio is particularly annoying to a young woman,
the best solution is to eat in front of the toilet bowl. This disgusts Cipitio so much that he
no longer finds her attractive and leaves her alone.

The legend of Cipitio has evolved from generation to generation, adapting many different
elements from all over El Salvador. In general, Cipitio is portrayed as a harmless yet
obnoxious troublemaker. He plays tricks, makes jokes and laughs at his victims. El Cipitío
eats bananas and the remaining ashes from rural kitchens; often villagers blame Cipitio
when they wake up and find messes in their kitchens.
La Carreta chillona
This Carreta witch appeared to a woman named Cirinla gossip. It was a normal size wagon without
oxen, but the tips of the sticks that made up the staked carried a human skull with grotesque
grimace of a smile. The road load consisted of a promontory of decapitated corpses writhed like
octopus tentacles thousand. The herdsmen, rather than head had a small bunch of grass. On the
left hand claimed a puja and right hand handle huge black whip. Dancing and popping lashes over
the bodies were shouting and mentioned the names of all people in the village who were known
as liars, false and hypocritical. And while saying the names, whipping sounded like explosions of
bullets in the backs of tortured bodies naked.

Such was the curiosity Cirinla that when he heard the noise of the Carreta Witch left her house to
see her and her terror was so great that the next day dawned dead above a pool of his own blood

3. curious, gossipy, rebellious, judgmental and juzgona. And since then the Witch and Carreta not
heard rolling over the cobbled streets of the peaceful village.

The Midnight Screamer
Midnight Screamer

One night, while returning from one of my paraded; coming from beyond the trail, when I passed
the Calvary heard a bell. I thought it was ... No one left to scare me a little and quickened my pace.
When missing one block to get to the Cabildo, to my surprise, I noticed that my cadejo not taking
care of me and came on the corner of the Plaza had like 12 or more pooches who were in heat.

Ah! thought sadly, if he were my cadejo me, I would leave all those pooches in shot. There were
other times was done so when the dogs saw me or felt the presence of my cadejo, I shot out
auyando disbanded, and do not even know where it went to.

That night everything seemed strange. Maybe missing about 20 meters to where the bulk of dogs
were, when everyone almost instantly stood still, with stops hotando ears and looked from side to
side, frightened. At first I thought it was my presence that had caused his strange attitude and
logically, I braced myself for the attack. Instinctively looked everywhere where collecting some
stones more, for my arsenal I was barely two and did not have much confidence that could hit the
target of that attack me first. Dogs, as we all know, animals are very brave and although one or
two stones were sticking good, the other not stop the attack. Different is with a club. With a long
stick, at least one meter, one can dislocate the first approach, and thus, three or four of them
giving pain or salaries, others fall into fear.

For the attitude of the dogs that day was something of a warning of a great danger, because
instead of barking left terrified by either side. A few began to howl rather ugly. The howl was like
they do when they say that death, plague and the devil are prowling around. At that moment one
is for hair. As the dogs came in disarray, I did not know where could come the danger they sensed.

I stopped a little instinctively, and looked back. I felt a strong warm air enveloped me and about
barracos Cuches that were around growling also came out running, running away from something
I do not understand, nor looked. Immediately after the blast of warm air felt a wave of fresh air in
the branches of the shrub border leaves swaying violently. Immediately after the bottom corner,
where I had just passed, I heard a terrible scream, something like a rumbling out of a cave. On the
street where I came cross just before appeared a figure of man walking in my direction. He walked
slowly and with long steps into the street, exactly in the direction where I was. As he advanced,
the figure became great before my eyes. I tried making a great effort to move the middle of the
street but to no avail.

4. I do not know if I passed or if nothing happened but when the man arrived exactly where I was, his
figure was so gigantic on me only the shadow of his body was projected and ... happened. I do not
know how long you spent in that position of powerlessness. I do not remember when or how I got
home. The next day when I woke up with fever was on. I spent three days with fever. Three days
they did not know if my house would live or die.

That's the Midnight Screamer. If it had been the devil you would not be telling the story as you
would have taken body and soul --- Grandfather Pedro said.

Composition about me and my family