La Siguanaba Thesis

Siguanaba (also known as La Siguanaba) is a well-known figure from both Salvadoran and Guatemalan legends. She was originally called Sihuehuet, which means beautiful woman, she had an affair with the son of God, Tlaloc and became pregnant. She was an irresponsible mother and left her young son alone while she satisfied her sexual desires with other men/gods.
When Tlaloc discovered this, he was furious. So he changed her name to Siguanaba, or horrible/ugly woman, and placed a curse on her. From that point forward, she would appear beautiful at first sight, but when men got closer to her, she would change into an ugly woman with large floppy breasts hanging to her knees (Or a horse’s head). Tlaloc condemned her to roam the fields and appear to men who traveled alone at night. The legend says that …show more content…
Inside the church, in the middle of the night and without any ceremony held, the lights came on and the neighbors saw that inside there was a priest walking without a head, wearing the sacred vestments, with all the rites of the mass. Some locals say that it was the lost soul of a chaplain of the church, whose life had been nothing uplifting and slept with prostitutes. And to pay for what the priest has done, other church members decided to cut his head off so that he may no longer see the damages he has caused and to forgive for his sins he was cursed to go every evening to the chapel. When the priest enters, all lights lit up in the altar, and there only an empty temple without an acolyte (an assistant to the church) to answer his words nor faithful to listen to him, celebrated the holy sacrifice. The supernatural event said it ended the night which a young man accidentally fell asleep at the end of a mass gathering , and staying locked in place, heard the whole mass of headless priest, so he, fulfilling his vow , he could finally