the sayona #history
La Sayona was a very pretty woman who was the wife of a very womanizing man, had several lovers. The real name of La Sayona is Timotea.
Legend has it that once, while her husband was sleeping, she heard him mention the name Casilda, this name corresponds to his mother's. Since she did not trust her husband, she supposed that one of her husband's lovers was her own mother. The next morning he left very early at his mother's house and had a very sharp knife in his dress. When his mother offered him coffee she put the knife in his stomach and his mother, dying, said:
Why? Why do you do it?
You are also my husband's lover
A mother is sacred - she said, almost dying - you will be a cursed woman. I go to the quiet grave but you, you will become a despicable being, and you will never find consolation or rest, you will wander for all eternity chasing men.
At this moment, he begins to roam the Venezuelan countries; La Sayona, appearing to men in the bush, or in the savanna and is apparently a very beautiful woman, with long silky hair and a beautiful and attractive body.
The men who see her fall in love instantly, she happy accepts the proposals made to them and takes them to the mountain, once they want to make her his, she transforms immediately, screams desperately, her teeth become in sharp fangs, his hair is completely disheveled, his nails become claws, his mouth sets fire and his eyes are like two balls of blood.
Men generally go crazy or die immediately, and only a few live to tell about it. Those men who know of the existence of La Sayona, when they travel alone, carry a cross of blessed palm and when they show it they flee in terror. She usually hides in the streams, in the savannah and the plains of the Apure State. At present, it is said that La Sayona is the woman of the devil.
On one occasion, a brave man, in order to end his curse, wanted to punish La Sayona, it is known that the old man put his underwear inside out, he sought her, hiding some branches of mistress and when he La Sayona came out, he prayed the Credo backwards, to the harsh punishment with the branches of altamisa but he could not remove the encano or remove it from his curse, so La Sayona continues to roam the plains, and its surroundings