Hello beings of darkness, I hope you are very, very well, today I want to share with you my musings on the theme of the initiative of the month: Legends, if you didn't participate before, READ HERE. So I'll start with this topic.

URBAN LEGENDS

Before I start I would like to tell you about my passion for the topic. I came to this whole world of “terror” mainly because of legends, which are these stories that pass from generation to generation but keep a truth. We don't know what the truths are that legends touch on, but I feel that humanity is grounded in stories. We look for an explanation for everything in the world and it turns out that we embellish it a little bit, so the plausibility is complicated.

I remember that since I was very little I listened to horror stories with great interest because it made me curious, in Venezuela and mainly in my family's town. For EVERYTHING there was a legend and I can say that I heard about witches, tabacos and goblins long before I understood the subject. I thought they were always stories to scare us and that was it, but I found in the legends a lot of magic.

There are many legends that I like and that call my attention. A very popular one in Venezuela is that of the Sayona, which has a great impact on me because I believe that this is a story that can easily happen, a deceived woman who loses her temper and generates tremendous chaos.

But there is a legend that I can't get out of my head and that is the Chaure, which is a kind of owl that is considered a “bad omen”. Well, when I was a child I heard many stories of people who saw the Chaure and a few days later someone died, there were fights or other dark and ugly situations. Why does it catch my attention? Because I find legends involving animals fascinating, how humans and nature do make a symbiosis and manage to connect in peculiar ways. The story of the Chaure can be found in other cultures as “Pájaro del Diablo” (Devil's Bird). Now imagine the migration of the story and the aggregation of elements. Fascinating!

I admit that I don't know much about the legends of Peru, I lack more information because the ones I have read are more of a fantastic nature. And not many of horror, one that I really liked was the one of Matusita.

The answer is yes, I believe there is truth in legends and myths. But it is very difficult to identify which part of the story is true. I think that is why there are too many stories that are misrepresented. I also believe that human beings like stories that have fictional elements more than those that do not. For example, many events involving Ouija have been shown to be fiction but that breaks the hearts of the participants who thought they were really hoping to have witnessed such an event. And of course there are episodes that are just the opposite, and some find it hard to accept that a “game” can have vital consequences.

Well, I think I will disappoint you with this answer because I will not tell you about them today. I do have several that are family, some personal ones I have already told you about on another occasion. But the ones that are my mom's and my aunts' I have never told them before. However, there is a story that although it is not mine marked me when I was a child because it was with the enchanted ones and a child disappeared for weeks when he appeared it was said that it was because of that. There was a lot of buzz about it, and I think I even dreamed about it.

You know that if you want to know my legends, leave me your comments, I will be very attentive to read them.