La Siguanaba: The Legend of the Horse Lady

Do you know how I was touting the magics of eyemasks. Oh that's right, that's true, to prevent you from seeing the man in the hat. Well, anyway, Robert sat on mine and I thought it'd be fine. And now I have a stig in my eye and that's why I'm wearing my glasses. You don't see my sloth eye. What Welcome to Scary Mystery Surprise, where we talk about scary things that surprised us around the internet. I'm Edwin and I'm Michelle. We have a special guest today, Yes we do, and she is Christina from Spooky Tales. Welcome Christina, Yes, hi, Hi, very excited to be here. Yay, you're on the Scary FM network now, I am. Yes. Great start to the year. Yeah, great starts the year. So make sure you guys go check out our show. But she's here to talk about the legend of lasiguanaver So that's this week's surprise, Christina telling us a story. I'm excited to hear this story. I'm sure you guys are aware. The world is full of lady in white stories or avengeful women. They're my favorite. I love them. And LaSIE Waba is one of those. It's mostly known in Central America, but especially as Salvalor, but she is also known as like the horse Lady. Well you'll find out, I guess, yeah, intriguing. I had to look it up. I mean, obviously she comes up as a female ghost like the top female ghosts or whatever they call them, female monsters, and she kind of tied to La Rona. A lot of people conflated with La Rona because it's avengeful women praying on men. There can be more than one. Yeah, that's the only thing they have in common. Yeah, there's morning one. She is her own queen. It doesn't need to be just one monster praying on men. There can be multiple and the backstories they are all different, So depending on where you are, the story changes a little bit, but it's mostly the same. According to legend, years years ago, like in colonial times, there was a woman. Her name was Siwa Wet, which means beautiful women in Nawa. Legend tells that she used her charms and her beauty to get what she wanted as she should. As she should, her charms and beauty helped her get the love of the prince yay Soon. Times were not good there was wars going on, so yay Soon he was not there a lot. He was off fighting in wars, and Siwa Wet she liked to sleep around, so she she was not faithful to yay Soon. She was horny. Yeah, I mean her husband's away, come on, yeah, yeah, cut her some slack. Yeah. So Siba Wet took this time while Yasuing was a way too many many affairs. From one of these affairs, she had a child. His name is Elsie Pitillo. He is not Jaysuon's son. Somehow Yasum didn't know. I guess I don't know. He's gone for years and there's just a baby there and he's like, oh, it's mine. Yeah, yeah, that part doesn't make sense to me. He comes back from More and Siva wed being his wife and still sleeping with a bunch of guys. That's not enough for her. She wants to be the only one to rule. She wants to be the queen by herself, so she makes this plan to get rid of Yasun. There's some sort of party festival type thing going on, and this is where she is going to kill him. Basically, she hires this bruka to give him a potion that's supposed to kill him at this party. I don't know why it has to be at the party. He drinks this potion. Instead of dying, he turns into a monster. She should get her money back because that's not what was guaranteed. Why at a party, Like, why not in private private killing? I think there's because there's more suspects if it's at a party. Oh see, that's my true crime. Brain, You want to murder him at a party, everyone's going to look to the queen in the first place. So, yeah, that's a good point. Maybe that's why she did it. So he turns into a monster. He starts attacking everyone at the party. He is eventually killed because they have to put him down because he's attacking everyone. Right, So she did get what she wanted. Yeah, yeah, And he happens to also be the son of the god la loque I want to say, the god of water slash rain, that kind of stuff. And so he finds out that sewa Wet is the one who orchestrated this whole thing, and that she has been cheated on ye soon this whole time, and CPTO is not his grandson, it's someone else. Everything, Yeah, everything all of this out, yeah, and he's very angry. He doesn't like this, so he goes to Sibawet and he curses her because of everything she's done. She's going to be cursed to roam the countryside for eternity, praying on men and also searching for her son, a Ciptio, because they're going to be separated. She can never catch up to him either. But she's going to live forever. She's going to now become a horrible, ugly woman. That's her curse. And so he curses her into having the face of a horse. And it's like a running horse. It's not even like a cute horse, which is worse. So it's not like a Sarah Jessica Parker face. It's like a and it's not like my little pony like it's more like just this like rotting, rodding, dead horse. That's what she's been cursed with. So the curse is that she will appear to be beautiful from afar, but then when men get close to her and she turns around, she has the face of a rotting horse. It's horrifying, ugly, so ugly that men will die from shock. I don't know from seeing her. It's horrifying. Wow. At the same time she was cursed her son and Ciptio unfair, but he was also cursed to live forever. His belly became distended as part of the curse, and his feet were turned around. That always happens. It happens so much in cultures. I don't understand it, all these different words feet, backwards, feet, Oh, he will forever have the appearance of a eight year old. He wears this pointy hat, He's got his backwards feet. He honestly looks a little bit like a wit. I kind of love him. I love it a little bit cute. Yeah. Yeah. When you see the pictures of him, he is wearing a hat, he's got pointy ears, his feet a backwards. His belly is big because Siwa Witt was busy being a terrible mom and he was neglected, so he would eat ashes and bananas. So if you look at pictures of him, it's usually he's holding a banana. Huh, all right, interesting twist. He it'said to just be like a mischievous little creature. He's not evil, but according to some people, he is evil. And he said that's where his lair is and he lures little girls to his lair and they're never seen again. Even if he's not evil, he's still like a duended like creature where he like will throw rocks at you and from the trees. He said, to spy on women that are like bathing in the river, which is not that much of a thing anymore. That's where he does that. Yeah, he's like caught up with modern times. He's like Santa Claus, but creepyoh childlike what does he want? He wants to watch that's what he basically it. Oh yeah, I don't think having him around is a good thing, whether he's kidnapping or not. My dad he's from sal And when I asked him about Ciptio, he said that, I mean, everyone knows who he is. His grandma used to say, oh, it was a Cptio again when there was a mess in the kitchen, because back then ovens were like you had to put I don't know wood in them, like mmmmmm hm, and that's how they turned on. And so then there was like ashes everywhere in the morning, and they would say Ciptio came and because he likes to eat ashes. So if there was a mess in your kitchen that you didn't leave, and there was ashes everywhere. It was him eating those ashes. He also said that he doesn't let young girls sleep. If he likes a young girl, he would go to her bedroom and just like stay on her bed and just all night repeat Do you like me? Do you like me? Do you like me? Oh? My god, it's like being back in middle school. Yeah. What does he sound like? By the way, Christina like, is he like a It's definitely like a child's voice, But I don't know what he sounds like. Luckily, I've never heard him. I've never been to imagine. It's just like, do you like me? Do you like me? It's a complete and I'm almost sure he sounds like a child. Do you like me? Do you like me? You like me? Yeah? You know, it's probably like that, which I don't know which one is worse, honestly, But they say the way to get rid of him if he does, like start following you around and won't let you sleep is to eat a meal in the bathroom. No, I do that off. Yeah, I don't want to do that, yeah, because then he's so gross styut He's like, I don't like you anymore, and he leaves. Oh God, are are you sitting on the toilet while you have to eat? Or is it just like, no, you don't have to be on a toilet. Yeah, that's so random though, Like yeah, when I read that, I was confused, but also I'm grossed out by it. So I guess it makes sense that he would also be like back to his mama, LaSIE whatever. She roams the countryside now because you know, she's been cursed and she lives for eternity just praying on men. It's like men who are out late at night when they should be at home, sleeping with their wives or taking care of their children whatever. Men that should be at home. So if they're out I don't know, past midnight in the countryside and Gatemalas all these places, then then you're fair game for her. And so she started to like be I don't know, standing on a rock or something, I don't know, combing her hair. It's long and black and beautiful, and she looks beautiful from behind me, and so men like walk up to her and uh, expecting to I don't know, get laid by this random woman sitting on a rock in the middle of the countryside. Well, they're already like out and about. I guess why not, why not just get to sleep with a random woman outrushure? And so they walk up to her. As they get closer, she turns around and you know, has this rotting horse face. Either a man gets scared to death and dies on the spot, or he goes insane, he loses his mind and he's never the same again. Other stories, she lures the men to a cliff side and then they fall off the cliff side and die. Most depictions of her is like a normal horse looking face, not the rotting horse. Sometimes it's like a skull of a horse. It kind of sounds like one of those cautionary tales, isn't it a little bit where Yeah, like don't be out late at night. Yeah, don't be a slutty man. I guess there are ways to save yourself from La if you happen to see her. One. If you don't stumble upon her. You can hear that she's approaching because you can hear her clapping together. Yeah, she's galloping and approaching. You can hear her her boobs slapping together because they're so long. That's what I thought you said, But I was like, I'll just have her repeat it. Yeah, And if you look up, depictions of a lot of times her breast are drawn as these like long you not kidding? Yeah. They say that if a man yells Maria, so you're not leaving crabgrass Maria three times, she flees. I don't know why, because her name is not even Maria. I don't know. All right, well, uh, the magic word is that I'm not quite sure why. I'll say it again in case anyone runs into her and you need it. Not Maria, I'd never remember that another thing you could do because back then everyone carried machetes around with them. So if you pull out your machette and you bite into it, she like flees. I don't know. I don't know why who comes up with these things? They're awesome, Like I wonder they're just the randomest in the bathroom, like come on, cribegrass Maria. Yeah. Some say that if you pull her hair, she will also leave, but I don't know. She might like it, honestly, and you know, she's probably got a gorgeous mane of hair, so she's you know, part of four. So I heard a similar right now when you said the thing there's a creepy legend where like this woman also is the same thing. When a person's leaving the bar late at night, this guy walking down the street and you see this beautiful woman when she goes with you, like you look down and she just has chicken legs like bird feet, telling you a Latin America and beautiful women that are just out to get men. It's a thing. It's a thing. And I say, when I was just one of many I love, but I love her still. But there's this story someone told me that when her father was a child, she was in Guatemala, not she her father wasn't Guatemala with his siblings. That's where he lived, and his mom was taking a nap in her room or something, but they didn't know that's where she was. And they were outside plane and of course the house was in the countryside, so like the house is there, but also there's just this rural area, woods creek all nearby, and so they're closer to their house and they see their mom from afar and she's like calling to them to go to her. So her dad, he was the youngest one and he was a little mamas, so he was like more intrigued to follow this woman that he thought was the mom calling them into the forest, and so he gets up and starts walking, and then one of the older brothers grabs him. He's like, what are you doing. That's not mom, And he's like, what do you mean. It looks just like her. And then they're like, no, she's napping in her room right now, you can go see her. And then one of the other ones is like, it's Leasiejuanaba. That's who it was, because they say that she can take the appearance of a loved one to lure you into the woods and like make kids disappear or men disappear. And they go back into the house and yeah, their mom is sleeping, and then when they turn back around look outside. The woman's not there anymore. But I mean she was dressed in white. She looked like the mom, but was wearing a white dress, which Lessi Guanaba is said to have a white dress. That's a night where I used to have as a kid, like confusing your parents or your parents are gone and you're by yourself. Now, yeah, I don't know how i'd react, you know, because you and you're like behind them and it's like, are you okay? Do you need any help? Because it's like, what's going on? Why are you standing on that rock? Is everything all right? Or And then she turns around and it's yeah, someone else told me, because everyone from what the man about, I think everyone's like uncle, everyone's drunk, uncle run into her or something. Yeah, it's always the poor uncles. But this person told me that their uncle was coming home late at night from like a bar something a party, drunk of course, and he was walking and he ran into like a woman that like appeared to be beautiful, and somehow I don't know, she convinced him to follow her, and so he starts following her and then he doesn't remember what happened. But the next day he woke up like tied to a tree. So he says that it was less honestly, could have been like a woman who just was like wanted to get like payback on him or something. But according to him, it was not he whenever was he married chess. Maybe it's like mpe the story you tell, it's like, why did you come home last night? Oh? Well, I don't know what happened. Well, they found him tied to the tree. He was on it, actually on the tree, and he says, like, I don't know what happened. I was following this woman. She was wearing white, her hair was long and black, and then this thing, I know, I'm tied to this tree. I might, you know, call shenanigans on his story. But now, when women are walking home at night, you just always like, what if it's a safety thing instead of mace, you just have like a horse head like and you just like it's like a man turn around. Yeah, that's the way you safely walk home at night is that you have your horse head like stashed in your purse when you go out that night, and then you're like when you're ready to go home, you put your horse head on and you sit through your horse caull and that's it. You're safe, ladies. Let's take the streets back. You know. I was to tell you a story. One of my friends back in from way back in high school. He used to have really long hair, and when we got to college, like he told me about this one time he went to a party and like he would have guys like approach from behind, like because he's a slim guy, and then he would turn around just be like so, and then it's like ah, so I could just imagine that big reveal of like huh, be careful, like she looks good from behind, but you never know, she might have the face of a rotting horse. That's a life lesson that everyone needs to learn. I think. So I agree here on the scary mystery surprise. We care, Yeah, we care, and we're full of important advice and life lessons. Be aware if you approach someone from behind, they might have a horse face. Just be aware of your surroundings at all times. Thank you, Christina. That was great. I mean I'm thoroughly creeped out. And also I think I'll start a business in horse heads to sell the women. Or you just sell Pepper's fry with a horsehead on it. That also might be more lucrative. I like it, Thanks Christina. Where can people find you? By the way, so many places. You can find me on Instagram and TikTok under at a spooky Taels. You can go to your podcast app or you're listening now and search as booky Taels and I'm right there. I feel like history. You can find me on Estoia's Unknown. Cool thanks to Locktor Steven, Yes, thanks a lot. What are we going to talk about next week? Edwin? So, I don't know. I think it'll be a surprise. Scary Mystery. Surprise is hosted by Michelle Newman and Edwin Komarubias. This podcast was edited and sound designed by Sarah Borhe's Wendel, a v W sound