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Salvadoran and Central American folklore

1 record of Salvadoran and Central American folklore — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.

La SiguanabaSpectre · El Salvador · Guatemala · HondurasA Central American spectre — Siguanaba, Sihuanaba, Cigua, Cegua — beautiful from behind, horse-faced or skull-faced up close. Related to La Llorona as a weeping or water woman in popular talk, but not the same being: she punishes lust and infidelity, and in Salvadoran cycles seeks her son Cipitío.