In her best Annabelle impersonation, she may give you a little road trouble as you’re driving through your town. When you do, she will grab you and take you away. There is no trance here or anything like that, I assume it’s just about piquing your curiosity.īut, she will perch outside your whistle or even screech to irritate you into looking to see what is outside. If you are smart and don’t answer the door, in the morning when you look at your front door it will have deep, unexplainable scratch marks on it.
There is another sign that she was there. She will pounce on you and carry you away with her talons. That way, when you, the kind-hearted individual assume that either someone left a baby on your doorstep, or that at the very least there might be a question that a baby is hurt, you open the door to check.īut instead of a baby, there is an owl-like woman as the source of the crying, trying to draw you out. She Can Pose As A BabyĪccording to legends, La Lechuza can change her voice that mimics a baby crying, but it sounds like it’s just outside of your door. If you hear an otherworldly screech late at night, it is an omen that La Lechuza could be around and looking to kill. She is known to fly through the air, perch on trees, and prowl around looking for people to slaughter. It is really at night that she transforms into an owl-like horror and terrorizes people. This may feel a little contradictory but during the day she appears as a normal(ish) woman. We found a website, Scary Mommy, that broke down La Lechuza’s modus operandi. Learn More About The La Lechuza Legend: The Witch Owl She is 7 feet tall with a huge wingspan of 15 feet. Some say she actually has shape-shifting abilities so that she can be a normal woman during the day and then a massive, terrifying owl with an old woman’s face at night. The loss of her children drove her to anger and resentment which allows her to come back and inflict pain on people.
She vowed to exact revenge on those who murdered her.Īnother origin story surrounding La Lechuza folklore is that she is the ghost of a woman whose children were killed by a drunk driver. She decided to come back as a creepy bird-like lady, similar to a barn owl in appearance. She came back as a spirit, but not just any spirit.
Naturally, the people in the town weren’t happy about her practicing magic, and they decided the reasonable thing to do was to kill her.īut, what they forgot was that she had powers and spells, and much like the vengeful spirit of the Mexican legend, La Llorona, she became a vengeful spirit. The first origin story claims that Lechuza was a witch and was eventually exposed in her village for doing the devil’s magic. La Lechuza is a spooky Mexican Folklore story that goes back centuries to a woman named Lechuza. What’s up Bizarros?! This week dive into the Legend of La Lechuza, the Witch Owl. La Lechuza: The Mexican Folklore Of The Owl WitchĪre witches real? Is there a creepy Mexican legend of an owl witch that terrorizes a town?
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