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| La Siguanaba (Beautiful woman in Indian Pipil language) Is a Salvadoran legend or myth that tells about an apparition in the form of a woman with her face covered by thick, gray-black hair, white arms with fine, ivory-like, long and thin fingered hand and shiny, pointed nails. The legend says that La Siguanaba or Siguamonta (Indian Pipil word that means beautiful woman) only appears at night in trails to single men or men that live out of marriage with a woman, to boys and old men, when they are not wearing blessed medals, crosses or religious insignias. To avoid the appearance of the spirit, the advice is to carry in your left pocket a piece of red colored cloth, place on the hat a cross made from pins or say to the apparition: "Mary, take your hen's leg" or "Comadre (godmother of my child), here is your little cigar". |
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| El Cipitillo El Cipitillo is the son of La Siguanaba and is a very well known character in Salvadoran legends. He is a cipote or boy approximately seven years old, white skin and large belly that wears a very big hat on his head. When he appears at nights he behaves as a sarcastic spirit, laughing very much, dancing around the victim and always leaving behind traces of his small footsteps. |
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| El Cadejo El Cadejo is a white dog with red eyes as burning coal and sharp jaws that is part of the Salvadoran legends. They say that it appears at midnight and his footsteps sound like goat's feet. Different from other apparitions, El Cadejo appears to protect pedestrians from any danger to the point of fighting against the black Cadejo that supposedly is Satan incarnate in a black dog. |
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| La Carreta Bruja o Carreta Chillona (The Witch Wagon or Screechy Wagon) This is a story that supposedly happened in a small town located in the foot skirts of a northeastern hill called Santa Catalina, San Esteban in the Department of San Vicente. The people of the village believed in all the ghostly range of Salvadoran mythology, such as La Siguanaba, El Cipitillo, El Duende, etc. The Witch Wagon appeared to a tattletale woman named Cirinla. It was a wagon of a normal size without oxen but carrying a human skull with a grotesque smile at the end of the sticking poles. The wagon's load consisted of a bunch of beheaded skeletons twined together like tentacles of thousand octopuses. The wagon drivers instead of a head had a bunch of yellow grass. On the left hand they held a sticking pole and on the right hand an enormous black whip. Dancing and whip lashing over the corpses they shouted and mentioned the names of all the people in town that were known as liars, false and hypocrites. And while saying their names, the whip lashes sounded as stampede of bullets on the bare backs of the tortured bodies. Cirinlas's curiosity was such that when she heard the sound of the Witch Wagon she went out of her house to see it and she was so frightened by it that next day she was found dead surrounded by a pond of her own curious, tattletale, high-spirited, criticizing and judging blood. And since then the Witch Wagon no longer was heard trampling on the rocky earth streets of the quiet little town. |
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| El Duende (Goblin) El Duende (goblin) is a seducing spirit that is always looking for young and beautiful women that he does not leave alone until they do something repulsive for him. This could be not bathing or doing unclean things. This spirit persecutes the beautiful woman he has picked by making noises at night, breezes and aromas until causing her to remain single. But as soon as the young woman starts doing unclean activities, El Duende leaves making strenuous noises and laughter. |
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