Post by gilamir on Jun 24, 2007 16:16:14 GMT -6
Has anyone ever heard of La Lechusa? Well, let me start off first about this legend of a witch in South, Texas and northern Mexico.
My grandparents who were Navaho used to tell use these stories about a bruja (witch) who was a shape-shifter and always took the shape of a huge owl with the face of a grotesque old woman, or a hooded woman with the face of an owl with glowing red eyes. (Kind of reminds me of the mothman, hmm?) People have seen her both ways. She practices both white and black magic but prefers black. And she brings bad misfortune to many from sickness to death.
She's always seen at night and likes to swoop and attack people. She's also been known to snatch babies in the middle of the night. My grandfather told me when he was younger, two young cousins disappeared from their rooms with the windows open and were never seen again. Relatives swore that they saw a huge dark owl screaming in the night sky that same night. They new it was La Lechusa but were so afraid that they forgot to think about and protect the children.
The stories of Lechusa have been told so many years and many people have sworn that they have seen the bruja. People such as good church going people, field workers, oil drillers, and even some cases priests and U.S. border patrols have seen the huge owl with a grotesque human face. But most like to remain silent.
We took off this summer from college so my friends and I have decided to do our own La Lechusa Project. We have been planning this from quite some time and next month we will start our week long hunt. We have already talked to many people here in San Antonio, Texas and other small towns in South Texas about the bruja. Many have given us locations who swore that they have seen and heard her. So we will be heading off to the ghost tracks of San Antonio, Woman Hollering Creek, Donkey Lady Creek, a small on the border town by the name of San Ygnacio, and to a small ranch ghost town named San Francisco where many field workers have been scared off by a flying witch.
We are loaded with digital and video cameras, voice recorders, batteries, flashlights, sleeping bags, tents, many books on the subject, maps, cell phones, food, etc., and hopefully patients. I just don't think we'll get that lost because here in South Texas the woods are just not that heavy as in the BWP, but we will be in the middle of nowhere in some places so I don't want to bite my tongue.
I'll let you all know how it turns out when we get back. It would be very exciting if we catch pics or sounds of her but if nothing happens, well I'm sure we will at least have a good time before school starts again.
My grandparents who were Navaho used to tell use these stories about a bruja (witch) who was a shape-shifter and always took the shape of a huge owl with the face of a grotesque old woman, or a hooded woman with the face of an owl with glowing red eyes. (Kind of reminds me of the mothman, hmm?) People have seen her both ways. She practices both white and black magic but prefers black. And she brings bad misfortune to many from sickness to death.
She's always seen at night and likes to swoop and attack people. She's also been known to snatch babies in the middle of the night. My grandfather told me when he was younger, two young cousins disappeared from their rooms with the windows open and were never seen again. Relatives swore that they saw a huge dark owl screaming in the night sky that same night. They new it was La Lechusa but were so afraid that they forgot to think about and protect the children.
The stories of Lechusa have been told so many years and many people have sworn that they have seen the bruja. People such as good church going people, field workers, oil drillers, and even some cases priests and U.S. border patrols have seen the huge owl with a grotesque human face. But most like to remain silent.
We took off this summer from college so my friends and I have decided to do our own La Lechusa Project. We have been planning this from quite some time and next month we will start our week long hunt. We have already talked to many people here in San Antonio, Texas and other small towns in South Texas about the bruja. Many have given us locations who swore that they have seen and heard her. So we will be heading off to the ghost tracks of San Antonio, Woman Hollering Creek, Donkey Lady Creek, a small on the border town by the name of San Ygnacio, and to a small ranch ghost town named San Francisco where many field workers have been scared off by a flying witch.
We are loaded with digital and video cameras, voice recorders, batteries, flashlights, sleeping bags, tents, many books on the subject, maps, cell phones, food, etc., and hopefully patients. I just don't think we'll get that lost because here in South Texas the woods are just not that heavy as in the BWP, but we will be in the middle of nowhere in some places so I don't want to bite my tongue.
I'll let you all know how it turns out when we get back. It would be very exciting if we catch pics or sounds of her but if nothing happens, well I'm sure we will at least have a good time before school starts again.
