Myths and Legends Arauca

Fireball One of the most popular beliefs is plain what the fireball, one might say that there is a ranger who has not heard of this supernatural phenomenon. Many residents and travelers who have had their trip and others that are familiar to both see it, now you have no fear. The phenomenon is a light that moves across the savannah, this glow is presented as a large circle of what is seen spinning like a wheel. When viewed closely, they can easily distinguish the eyes, mouth and other body parts like a human skeleton. There are people who claim to have seen two "balls? Fire seals scampering over the hills and reach the palms flakes rials, both in the bushes and turn corozo candle in summer time and especially at Easter when the aimless fright loose. They say that when this device need to tell rude appears to be away from the contract comes up and burn. Different versions are woven on the origin of the fireball.

Some say it is a bishop, who have sinned walks in grief, others were two mothers who fought and curses, or the spirit of a woman who was ill daughter, or is simply wandering spirits who wander on the plain. Story of David Ramirez Gamboa (Fireball): Ramirez tells David Gamboa, who dyed a dark night, traveling in the savannas of Arauca, toward the Hato Valbuena. Suddenly you see a fireball that lit up and off, without realizing it away from the route, was disoriented and lost, I saved a fence in the Saya and could aim at dawn. Narrative of Carlos Rodil. (Fireball): Carlos left cachicamiá Rodil to the savannahs of chaparral riding an ox and donkey companions. The night was clear, allowing them to see that the north came the Fireball ride with a violent and loud ringing; scared praying and while doing so closer the Fireball, passing under the head of the ox. The animal threw the front legs to imprison but failed Fireball and continued without stopping.

The Legend of terrors Sayona Another very famous names is sayonara. The grandparents told the story and people seeing things out because the hairs are placed on end. Sayonara is shown as a thin woman, very elegant, and they say that can measure three meters long hair and fingernails scratching as pa `asleep. It tends to occur to men in love and you are unfaithful to his wife. The common people regarded as a symbol of punishing misconduct amorous indiscretions. As a grandparent tells the story goes like this: "I was ajuntao is the grandmother but had an affair with a girl who lived about an hour away and I was flying late at night to visit her. Since arriving at the site of the event saw the woman and said: Come my love, she looked volt and had teeth like an ax and struck me hug me, I fell to the ground private, and brighten the day I woke up and pa `ran home, the woman told me: why are you so asustao? I said, my child, was that I went to the bathroom to the patio and saw a tall woman.

My wife told me: Look millet, that's the Sayona, she goes to the infidels, I realize you fly me every night and not urinating as you are telling me, I knelt down and asked him to forgive me and from then on I go to bed early as chickens?. Other versions say the intent of this soul in torment is to attract men towards the cemetery, without being seen his face, but when they see you face, evidence that it is a skull. This legend dates back to colonial times and in the Eastern Plains comment repeatedly heard of this lady of darkness. Narrative of Jose de Jesus Morales (Sayonara): The Lone Araucanian Jose de Jesus Morales, famed folklorist, musician, dancer joropos, Creole artist of the old guard, naturally relates the episode of Sayonara, "Joaquin Mirabal, worked workers on the estates of Pius Carrillo and Simon Salinas, located in the village of clarinet players. Mirabal came to town Saturday to squander the payment of the week was walking down the street from the bank and, on arriving at Puente Cordoba, is presented with an elegant woman with long hair that fell to the knee.

Approached him and he asks where you are going, he replied that for the inn asked to accompany her. Mirabal accepts the invitation, dialogue and proposes to make love, they had walked a block over, bend down the street where the store is now Libertador, trips and stumbles Mirabal, rising, sees the woman has become four meters high, tusks and immediately forty centimeters is private. Dawn came down from the airport. (Episode happened in 1940).

The Mancarita Sayona or in the mountains of San Camilo José Account? Angel Arana, Ranger Araucanian master craftsman of the highest quality, which in the mountains of San Camilo, returning two Shitter cattle, sleep in the jungle in a of the conference on a multiple troja roadside. At midnight they hear the cry of a woman in the distance of the mountain, one of the answers Shitter cries, while the other partner tells him to shut up. When they notice a woman underneath the barn, which answered the cries invited to go to the barn and she accepts without a word. The Mancarita will take hold around the neck and begins to eat. The sleeping in the barn below feel you fall a few drops, grabs barajustado macundales and out. At dawn the Mancarita reaches it before going to Savannah to see it uncovered and yells, "was saved by the end of the halter?. He carried out of the bag, and in the end, the cross with the knot of armadillo, the evil spirits. Legend of La Llorona La Llorona is one of the most traditional horror on the plains.

The legend tells the story of a woman who killed her son because he cried a lot, the reason the child's cry was nothing but a disease that afflicted him. So this criminal act to succeed her husband put a curse on him saying he would be condemned to walk in all our level with the crying child in tow and his destiny, hence the woman troubled by the sin and distressed by the sentence, suicide, but his soul was in pain and retracing every corner of the plain. The presence of this horror is detected by eerie cries that are heard often in times of Holy Week, especially where children are crying. The belief is that praying is not suitable for if not, do not withdraw, the older generations have heard say, speak of the wandering spirit as something common. It has been said that many people used to hear often in the villages, cemeteries and lonely places, always at night, rarely is visible to humans. The comment from people is that when the dogs howl in the darkness of night is because La Llorona walks rolling.

The Whistler or Silbón in the Venezuelan plains known as Silbón and narrative says that is a tall, thin, measuring about six feet. The present description who have seen and heard is that of a man disproportionate high, overhanging walking the treetops espeluzante emitting a whistle and carries a sack full of bones that makes it sound like a rattle Week Santa. The legend says that the Silbón is the soul in torment of a son who killed dad and ate the offal (ie liver, heart and bofe). In the Eastern Plains of Colombia is known as The Whistler. Is said to be drifting terror of a lost soul of a party animal and womanizer man who died alone and abandoned, and seeks the company of someone who ride for hours of the night along the paths of the plain. Others say that persecutes women who are pregnant. This gives a long whistle whistling and sharp penetrating through the ears and at the same time feels an intense cold that freezes people.

There is the belief that when sharp whistles it is a woman who is going to die, but instead the whistle is thick, is a man or a friend dies. The Duende is a spirit of fun chasing women, especially pretty girls. This spirit is not seen but women who pursued and are presented in the form of a child who does all kinds of grimaces and throws small objects and proposes love. By accessing, leads them fruit. The leprechaun must tell all sorts of profanity and in that way will be removed permanently. There will also be music by touching rope because it is said that well remembers the heavenly music as elves belong to the angels who rebelled with Lucifer and were wandering the world: a disembodied like elves, other with the body like the monkeys. The? Nima Sola is said to have belonged to a woman who denied water to Jesus Christ when asked for the day I had to crucify him. God condemned to wander the world until Judgement Day.

However there are many rangers, especially women, who have great faith to help them in solving their problems. Other Faiths or Agüeros The tiger knows when a person feels fear. As the ranger walk barefoot, the tiger put his paw on the footprint of the person, if the tiger shakes the hand is that the Ranger has been fear and he continues to hunt. When you kill a cow and do not want to be cool flying, you remove the carcass to the tip of the tongue and is buried beneath the paddle of the animal hits the ground, when even this hobby. The one who stabbed the answer to the cost of the house, it's up salt the meat, but that day can not bathe the body because it can become paralyzed. The leather or skin of the cow is staked in the yard to be "orie? and then chop or make a rope, where he was head of beef that is facing the kitchen door, this in order to never miss the meat in the house. When riding at night you asked a cross in front hooves with the tip of the knife and say that ghosts are made at the roadside.

When you go night canoeing and the distance is long, it becomes what we call sailing boat for the momentum and San Telmo sings and runs well enough breeze. For the fishing for results, thrown into the fire of animal guts and butter until it burned and tells San Rafael: thanks for the fish, because it is the patron of fishermen. The Lone see the sun just knows what time it is, and no sun is timed by instinct of nature. The Lone remote knows which product gave the cow, that is, whether it is male or female who gave birth, the female is behind the male breast and playing on the side. The former Ranger retains its omens, customs and beliefs, so it has own prayers: For the bull is prayed to San Marcos. To tie a horse to corcovié not there a secret prayer to San Carmelo. To scare away the snakes, as soon as you lift the dinghy, he says a prayer to St. Paul and so if it should encounter a snake did not try to bite him.

Cattle are praying according to the colors of the skin, it becomes a cross, can be a meter away and eight hours the worms are falling and the animal was completely healed. Savannah also pray for the cattle do not become ill with fever, plague, mad or limp. For toothache, fishing is a line, you remove the puja that takes in the tail, the animal is released to the water alive, and the puja gets into a box of matches and each time you have pain Inca the tooth and the pain disappears. For the breaker back pain using a halter horse hair weaving women and ties him to the waist under the pants, like guava or shaker gut, the gut is dissected and ready for use. The Lone know if the summer is long or short, simply touch a rejo, if mild, winter is near or on the contrary is accentuated. Known whether fat or thin beef is watching the track, as the beef fat suckers feel good helmets on the wet ground, not the skinny instead.

Know how many births have had a cow, because for every baby is forming a ring around the horn. The horses are the years you know the wrinkles in the tube and the mouth. When India is just given birth, the Indian sick, a fever and is sleeping with breeding, India is going to work and only come to breastfeed. The Indian says: I am an outcast. Burying a bocachico Coporo or at the tip of the beach, ribazón stops and the big fish becomes waterlogged, it is said that some people have the counter for the subienda continue. In the plain, where the Marranos barajustan and buck is because soon it will rain. When the fire rages tailings being apprehended, is that going to come visit. When you drop silverware, if the spoon is a woman who will come, if the holder is a man, if the knife is the mother. When the owl sings near the house of one, a bad omen. On the right side of the devil rides horses. Urinating on the coals makes the child is dry at night.

The roosters are given to Chili get angry. Dogs are given only meat, to be brave. It is customary to take a chicken and eggs sprinkled with holy water, figuring that by Easter born. These roosters are called "pasioneros? and the house where there will be free of ambushes, of spells and bad luck. For good luck in the game Easter usually kill a black cat and remove all the bones and bury them at the intersection of two roads, hopefully well-traveled. After a year and a cauldron unearthed roasted and the waste is put in a leather pouch made from the skin of a toad. This bag is carried whenever money is going to play or do business. It is customary to catch a rattlesnake rattles and remove, leaving alive and cross seven rivers. The bells will ring at the time at which to wager any money or sums of money because it is the moment of luck. It is believed that the cow's udder is damaged when spilled milk is left in hot topia.

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