Practicing my English 5 A popular Guatemalan tale My country has a diversity of tales about love, horror, magic and urban legends. This ones are part of our culture and identify us as Guatemalans. They’ve been passed on generation to generation. Independently you believe or not on this, it´s probably that at once you’ve got a nightmare in your childhood with some of them. One of the most popular tale is “La Siguanaba”. This creature is characterized by her face that looks like a freaky horse, long black hair and her body in shape woman. Legend says that she used to call “Sihuehuet” (beautiful woman), she fell in love of son of the good Tlatoc of which she was getting pregnant by him. However she was a happy-go-lucky mother, cheated on her husband and left her son alone. Tlaloc realized of this and he punished her with the name of “Sihuanaba” (horrible woman), sentencing to roam around the streets and scary in the darkness to the native people of the area. Since then, every night she go out to attract men (especially womanizers) without showing her face. Once she catches attention of one, she walk away with his victim until a dark place and then she reveal her face in order to produce sickness, insanity, or just stole your soul. So, if you use to flirt many girls and you are in Guatemala, be careful when staring at woman with nice hair and body. And be sure to see her face first or maybe you’ll regret it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for reading this. If I made a mistake please correct it. This will help me to getting better.