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Halloween is just a few days away. So I thought today might be a good day to share some stories of ghosts and spirits. Myths and legends of ghosts and apparitions are popular in Venezuela. And I'm going to tell you about a couple of them that originate in the Los Llanos region of my country. Where among landscapes of immense plains, some of the best-known legends of spirits have emerged. Some are terrifying and can even end the lives of those who cross their path.
My grandmother's Nanny (Nana) used to tell me these and many other stories when I was a little girl. She was from a town called Cúa, where they fervently believed in the appearance of these and other spirits.
La Sayona
Perhaps one of the best-known legends here is the one of La Sayona. The ghost of a woman dressed in a Saya, a kind of white robe. She appears to her victims as a striking-looking woman. But it's said, the ghost can transform into a wild animal that devours its victim, who are womanizing and unfaithful men. La Sayona never attacks women.
The legend tells, she was a beautiful young woman named Casilda. She was married and had a baby. One day while bathing naked in one of the rivers of the plain, she realized a man was spying on her. The man, when discovered, excused himself by saying that he had come to warn her that her husband and Casilda's mother were having an affair. The jealous woman ran home and set it on fire, killing her husband and baby inside. Their screams of terror were heard by the villagers. And Casilda went looking for her mother to kill her too. It's said that he killed her with a machete. But the mother cursed her before she died. And condemned her to be a Sayona forever and to avenge the women of the men who were unfaithful to them.
So my dear friends, if one day you travel through the Venezuelan plains, don't flaunt your adventures. And even less before beautiful and seductive women.
El Silbón (The whistler)
The Silbón is the spirit of a young plainsman of the town of Guanarito, who murdered his father and was condemned to wander eternally carrying a sack with his bones on his back.
There are several stories around this legend. But one of the most popular is that the young man killed his father with his bare hands because he mistreated his wife. His grandfather, realizing what he had done, cursed him and condemned him to wander like a lost soul.
The victims of this spectrum are said to be drunkards and womanizers who are dismembered by this spirit. But he warns about his presence with a hiss. It is said that the closer you hear its popular whistle, the further he is, and the further you hear it the closer he is.
Many in the plains say they have heard the hiss and it is said that if several people hear it, nothing happens, but when there is only one person who hears it, it means that that person will die.
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October 27, 2021
I like La Sayona. I hope she haunts every unfaithful people all around the world lol! But that's really tragic and rather sad.