by EAS

Created on: March 27, 2009   Last Updated: March 29, 2009

When you think of fantasy creatures what do you think of? I think of all the stories I have ever been told by my elders about the supernatural. Being of Mexican heritage I have come across many a story of ghastly creatures, sad spirits and evil entities.

Now being a Catholic myself I think I am a little more accepting to the theory that there are things that go bump in the night, things we can't see or hear but are there. Take for example my great-great grandfather. He told a story of how he found a lechusa (owl) in a tree. Well, my great-great grandfather knew that there was something odd about it and decided to find out what it was so he asked it why it was there in that tree staring at him menacingly. Keep in mind he knew in the back of his mind that this was the wife of a neighbor who he had seen slipping out of the house at late hours. The lechusa turned to him and said "please don't tell anyone." My great-great grandfather immediately recited the Our Father prayer backwards at which point the lechusa came tumbling, paralyzed out of the tree. He demanded that she leave her evil ways and return home right away to her sleeping husband and children or else he would tell them and she would be forever cursed. Weird huh? This is what I was told and by God I believe every word of it.

I have heard stories from almost every member of my family of La Llorona, the hairy hand, la mano mocha and I have to say I think these stories have some kind of a truth behind them .

We really don't know what happens to bring about these things but what we do know is that God says evil does exist and does so here earth. Now I am not going to say that ALL supernatural creatures are evil because I just don't know that for a fact.

Now another story I was told was of my grandmother's family in Mexico. This family had statue of a saint in their house as per the towns tradition of praising saints. They would keep a statue of the saint in their house and keep it on display change its clothes, feed it food and parade it around town during festivals. Now according to them the saint would be put to bed at night in its display dressed in beautiful garments and the next morning it's clothes would be dirty and its feet were dusty. Well it came to be known that this particular statue was sneaking out at night and doing good will for others. How nice is that. So there we have and example of a good supernatural occurrence.

I cannot say whether or not every aspect of these stories are true but time has passed them on for a reason be it to scare us or make us believe in better things. But, they came from somewhere, something sparked someone into uttering these tales from their mouth and into an ear willing to listen and so on and so forth.

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