Recently I had a nightmare that triggered me to write about it. It has been happening once or twice a month for the last 5-6 months. After sometime when I can feel my palms and feet warming up, I would turn around, ofcourse to see nobody. After sometime I could feel the thing recoiling out off my bed slowly, as if trying to trace a movement in me but I would lay still, closing my eyes. I would feel my hands and feet growing cold but I become so afraid to turn around and see, that I keep lying perfectly still. I will suddenly wake up feeling a movement as if somebody is getting on my bed. Hey SFK! I wanna share something with all your readers in here… I don’t know it’s worth publishing it on your site or not ’cause it’s like a really really short thing when written down, still it’s a true thing, so I am just writing it to you. My uncles claimed they shot a lechuza and the next morning, they found an old lady lying there dead from gunshot wounds… so… either lechuzas are real… or…my uncles are murderers!” The lechuza followed them all the way home while they were driving and stayed outside their house until dawn. They started getting freaked out and decided to go home. They were swimming at a local pond and they saw an enormous black bird watching them from afar. My older sister claimed she saw a lechuza a few years ago when she went back to visit. When she eventually came out, she couldn’t walk and she was hobbling around on a cane…” They waited and waited, but for days the old lady never left her house. One night, when they saw the giant black bird, they took out their guns and started shooting at it. Some people in the town wanted to hurt the “lechuza” to see if it was really this old lady. My grandmother’s hair and eyebrows were gone. Apparently, the old woman had done some witchcraft (“brujeria”) on my grandma. She was 60 or 70 years old and my mom said she was suspected of being a witch and could turn into a “lechuza”. I remember my mom telling me about an old lady that lived nearby. “When I was a child, my family lived in a little town near the mountains in mexico. If you find unexplained scratches on your door or windowsill, it could mean a Lechuza has visited your house during the night. If you go outside to investigate, it will swoop down on you and carry you away. If the Lechuza fixates on you, it will sit outside your door at night, making crying sounds like a baby. Many people in Mexico have spotted lechuzas flying high over the tops of houses or have seen it outlined against the moon at night. They usually only come out at dusk or after nightfall. It can also appear as a creature with the body of a bird but the head of a hideous old woman. Usually, the Lechuza will appear as a large bird, the size of a human being. Some say that the Lechuza has sold her soul to the devil in order to gain her powers. They will prey on people who they think have done them wrong or they will steal children to use in their occult rituals. This story is also known as “La Mujer Lechuza” which means “The Owl Witch”.Īccording to Mexican folklore, a Lechuza is an old witch (or Bruja) who can turn herself into a monstrous black bird. In this day and age, most encounters with La Lechuza occur when she swoops down on cars that are driving on a deserted road late at night.The Lechuza is a scary Mexican urban legend or myth about an old woman who can turn into a giant black bird. Once she has them in her sights, she swoops down on the confused and frightened individual and carries them off to her lair, where she may devour them at her leisure. And anyone who attempts to locate the source of the sound risks their lives, for they may become the Witch Bird’s next meal. It is said that when Lechuza locates her prey, she perches herself in a hidden area, and will then commence making strange whistling sounds or an eerie sound resembling the crying of a newborn baby. La Lechuza uses sound that bears a supernatural compulsion to lure her prey to her. Every night, she is said to transform into a five to six-foot tall bird (most commonly an owl) with the face of a beautiful or wizened old woman and enormous wings. In others, she is a woman that has sold her soul to the Devil in order to gain supernatural powers. Sometimes, she is the ghost of a woman who was widowed by a man who remarried, or was the devoted wife of an unfaithful husband. Legends say that she returned from beyond the grave as a ghost to seek revenge upon those who murdered her in the form of a human-sized bird with a woman’s face. La Lechuza, the Witch Owl, is said to be a witch that can shape-shift into an owl and is well-known throughout Mexico and Texas.Īccording to legend, La Lechuza was once a curandera (someone who practices white magic) who, after being exposed as a witch (or bruja), was killed by the angry and frightened townspeople.
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