HELLO and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet!
I am you humble-ish host Miss Rebecca Jane Felgate and we are coco loco as we delve deep
into the Top 10 Scary Mexican Myths.
I want to play true or false with you throughout this video, so if you want to write a little
round up in the comments of ten through to 1 of what you think is true and what you think
is false then I would be pleased to hear it …..
LIKE SHARE THUMBS
10 - El Sombreron What is a myth or a legend video without the
Boogeyman?
Nothing, that is what!
So El Sombreron is a baffling one really… he is a lusty bogeyman with a weird hair obsession…
bald, no worries…luscious locks….watch out.
El Sombreron is said to wear a big black hat that covers the majority of his face, he is
a short man with big eyes that poke out from behind a silver guitar that he uses to serenade
people with.
You will know when he has been around as you may find horses with curiously braided tails
or a plait in a girls hair that she doesn’t remember placing in herself.
One tale says that he stood outside on the balcony of a beautiful woman with long hair.
On hearing his music she became mesmerized by him – he returned to her balcony night
after night to the point where the girl stopped eating and sleeping, so her parents cut her
hair off, which immediately made El Sombreron lose interest.
Oh.
Gutted.
Although…probs for the best.
A gal needs a dinner!
Another type of boogieman at number 9….. this one is less about hair and more about
drinking the blood of children.
Swings and roundabouts, right?!
Right!
EL Cuco It is thought that this particular Mexican
Myth was brought over from Spain in the colonial era.
El Cuco, in life, was a man suffering with tuberculosis, the disease that offed Satine
in Moulin Rouge and was basically a yuge historical killer.
These days it is actually STILL an issue in Mexico, however it is curable….
But in the era of EL Cuco a cure was a long way off.
The legend goes that El Cuco met with a curandero, a traditional healer and she told the man
that the only way to cure the disease was to drink the blood of a child and then rub
their fat on his chest….so diligently El Cuco did this, having no qualms about kidnapping
and murdering a seven year old boy.
These days El Cuco is said to roam the streets looking for misbehaving children to kill to
cure his ailments.
A modern day myth at number 8 Chupacabra
Classic Cryptid!
A Chupacabra is a legendary creature in folklore, a blood sucking animal vampire hybrid.
It’s name literally translates to goat sucker.
The legend of El Chupacabra is most popular in Puerto Rico, Northern Mexico and the boarder
states of the USA.
In 1996, following an incident in Puerto Rico, the Chupacabra allegedly began killing goats
in the Mexican countryside.
I found a mid 90s article in CNN in which a Mexican woman said: "It's horrible because
we don't know what it is," "I don't think its a coyote or a dog like officials say because
a dog can't kill ten goats with a single blow."
To this day, some 25 years later, people still believe that a vampire goat sucker was behind
the killings.
Often stray hairless dogs in Mexico are mistaken as the Chupacabra, adding fuel to the myths
fire!
7 - The Owls CLIP twin peaks.
OH I LOVE a good owl.
I really do.
I love how evil they look….and like… you would not be messing with an owl would you?
Not in Mexico!
La Lechuza is a woman by day and an owl by night.
There are a lot of strands to the myth but it is generally agreed upon that the woman
has been wronged in some way and is looking to seek revenge.
Some say that the Lechuza snatches children in her talons because her own child was killed
by angry villagers for a crime he did not commit.
Others say her child was killed by a drunkard and so now the shapeshifting owl exacts revenge
by perching on the rooftops of bars, waiting until closing time to attack drinkers who
stumble out into the street late at night.
Others think that the owl is simply a familiar for a witch.
Eitherway, the owls are bad news.
There have been gigantic bird sightings happening all over northern Mexico, Chihuahua, Tam-au-lipas
and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas for centuries…a lot of people think that it is La Lechuza
looking for her revenge.
In general, Mexicans are traditionally distrusting of owls.
6 - La Lorna Ah, a sad and enduring Mexican myth and legend.
La Lorna is a wailing ghost that is said to bring misfortune or even death if you hear
her cries, rather like the Banshee in Irish folklore.
The story behind the legend is one of a woman named Maria who was raised in a small rural
village.
Quite the beauty, she piqued the attention of a passing nobleman who married her, whisking
her away to a house outside the village where she had two children.
Her husband would travel a lot and when he returned he seemed only to care about their
sons, seeming disinterested in her.
One day he returned with another woman, which drove Maria to insanity.
Her husband bid farewell to his sons and ignored his wife, leaving with the other woman.
Maria, in despair threw her two children in a river….upon realizing what she had done,
she tried to save them but they had been swept away and drowned.
She then killed her self and pleaded at the gates of heaven to be reunited with her sons,
but the gatekeepers told her she must find them first.
She now is stuck in purgatory as a ghost always looking for her children…it is said if she
finds lost children at night, she drowns them, hoping they contain the souls of her lost
sons.
If you hear wailing or crying near a body of water at night, you are to run in the opposite
direction for fear of being drowned or meeting the bad luck associated with La Lorna
5 - El Muerto The Headless Bandit The El Muerto tale is truly terrifying – what
isn’t there to be afraid of when it comes to a headless ghost!
This myth….or we hope it is a myth anyway, comes from the US Texas Boarder.
Back during the Gold Rush era, people thought there was gold to be found in Texas.
On top of that, the USA Mexico boarder was hotly contested around that area, with an
area of no mans land between the two countries.
In this area, Bandits were rife and Texas Rangers were around to keep them in check.
One ranger, William Big Foot Wallace, wanted to teach the bandits a lesson after one persistent
criminal, known simply as Vidal, stole a bunch of Mustang Horses.
When he was court, Big Foot Wallace and his ranger friends chopped off Vidal’s head,
sat his body on a horse, attached his hands to the reins and strung his head to the saddle.
This was supposed to teach other would be bandits a lesson not to mess with the Texans.
Some poor sod had to deal with finding the horse and its deceased cargo, too.
Despite eventually being taken down from the horse, legend has it that Vidal rides on through
the Rio Grande area today, with his ghost being dubbed El Muerto.
4 - Crystal Skulls Ahh, Crystal Skulls.
A great Mexican mystery.
I love starting things with “ahh” don’t I! many curious crystal skulls have been found
across ruin and burial sites in Mexico sparking intrigue.
There is a myth about the skulls that seems to say that after 13 have been discovered
mankind will unlock the secrets of the earth and begin a new age….
This date was predicted by the Mayan’s to be in 2012, butttt we haven’t got there
yet.
Better get looking for more skulls.
Myths aside, the skulls are still an enigma due to their intricate crystal work, which
would have been exceptionally complex and intricate for the time in which they were
created.
3 - The Eclipse Pregnant Mammas, watch out!
In Mexican Folklore it is said that if a pregnant woman is exposed outdoors during a solar eclipse,
her baby will be born with a cleft lip or cleft palate.
Okay, quite bizarre.
So, like, why though.
Well it seems that the belief dates way back to the Aztec era when the best explanation
for an eclipse was that a bite had been taken from the moon, possibly by some kind of Wolf
God.
For them it made sense that if a bite could be taken from the moon, a bite could be taken
from an unborn child should she view it - so to protect her she would have an obsidian
knife placed on her belly before she went out.
These days the tradition and belief is upheld and a woman tends to take a metal key or safety
pin out for protection at night in the event of an eclipse… but like lets be honest….eclipses
really aren’t that regular of an occurrence,.
2 - The Day of the Dead Mexicans kind of have a macabre humour when
it comes to death and I can get on board with that that.
Death is coming for us so we may as well dress it up in a floral hat and have a good time
partying with it, rather than fear it all of our lives.
Anyone from Mexico watching?
The day of the dead is a big party in Mexico that centres on La Calavera Catrina, a female
skeleton wearing a fancy hat and is basically the personification of death.
She stems back to the Aztec mythology of the Queen of Mictlan who keeps watch over the
bones of the dead and presides over festivals celebrating the afterlife.
Traditionally mexican’s believe that a person has to get through 9 challenges to reach the
afterlife and family members provide food and water through this difficult journey.
On the Day of the Dead, it’s believed that the barrier between the spirit world and the
real world dissolves.
During this time, the souls of the dead awaken and return to the living world to feast, drink,
dance and play music with their loved ones.
I actually kind of love that.
It’s like a fun day of remembrance.
A CRAZY and enduring story at number one…
1 - The Travelling Soldier The Transported Soldier Legend has it that
in 1593, a Soldier from the Phillipines teleported from Manila straight to Mexico City.
Gil Perez was said to have nodded off as he leaned against the Governors Palace wall on
October 24th 1593.
You can’t blame him; he had had a long night as the Governor had been assassinated and
he was standing guard as a new leader was being appointed.
As he drifted off, he…um…woke up in Mexico City …which…I don’t know if you have
looked at a map recently….but it is very very very very far away!
Perez was questioned by officials in Mexico, who threw him in jail after he told them he
had simply woken up thousands of miles from where he was supposed to be.
Suspicious.
I get it.
Eventually, when a passenger ship from Manila turned up in Mexico city MONTHS later, crew
were able to confirm Perez’s story about the Governors assassination and the soldiers
disappearance.
SO LIKE……WTF?
Teleportation?
Alien abduction….or good old myth?
SO that was the Top 10 Scary Mexican Myths!
What did you guys think to this list?
Do you think any of these myths are actually true?
Let me know in the comments section down below.
COMMENTS FROM: Top 10 Scary Iceberg Stories Sava Centar said: Penguins will start communist
revolution.
Rick Sanchez c137 said: I live in anchorage Alaska but the coldest I have ben in was when
I went to Fairbanks visiting family.
It was around -50F below zero Oooooff!
Ripper Rice – Tbh I didn't see how the meeting ice will
rize Ocean levels cuz if you have ice in your cup of water and it melts the water in the
cup stays the same Its about water displacement, friend!
Rather than being
a lump, and it’s a liquid…lumps stay in one place….liquids flowwww.