Xtabay
demonic single tradition · 2
Xtabay is a demon, outwardly a beautiful woman but inwardly cruel and predatory of heart. She is the transformed Utz-colel, who prayed to evil spirits to become a beautiful flower in death, but became a demon instead. She is motivated only by jealousy and rage.
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“Xtabay subverts the traditional meaning of the ceiba tree since she hides behind it to lure her victims to their doom. It said in the legend that the ceiba roots are where all the men the Xtabay has taken from earth go and that not a single one has ever returned from them”
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“On the other hand, the Xtabay of contemporary folklore is a seductive female demon "ensnaring" or "deceiving" her male human preys so as to madden and destroy them.”
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