Tunda
The Tunda is a vicious woman who sucks the blood of men. La Tunda's shape-shifting abilities are far from perfect, as whatever form she assumes will invariably have a wooden leg in the shape of a molinillo (wooden whisk). The monster is very cunning and adept at concealing this defect from would-be victims.
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Relationships
- co occurs with
- Matlacihua, Sayona
- cognate of
- Patasola
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Source passages
“There are legendary creatures that bear a resemblance to the Patasola in other Latin American countries, such as the Tunda myth of the Colombian Pacific region which also tells of a vicious woman who sucks the blood of men. However, in this legend, "La Tunda's shape-shifting abilities are far from perfect”
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“The Tunda (Spanish: La Tunda) is a myth of the Pacific coastal region of Colombia and Ecuador, and particularly in the Afro-Colombian community of the Chocó department, about a shapeshifting entity resembling a human woman that lures people into the forests and keeps them there.”
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