Always on the lookout for new cryptids to bring to readers, here is one from the Carribean, The Ciguapa.

From Fantastical Universe

Bipedal Creatures Case File 1 -The Ciguapa of the Caribbean

The stories of mermaids have in 2013 created a buzz in the cryptic community generating TV shows and even having people call government agencies looking for answers on their existence. Like in many legends and folklores some undiscovered creatures at times have been proven to be flesh and blood and are no longer myths or legends. Mermaids or sirens as they are called by some have been abducting, hypnotizing and even men killing in the many fantastical stories related in many legends. Yet have you ever of a type of land Mermaid in a sense called the Ciguapa, found deeply rooted in the folklore and mythology of the Dominican Republic, located in the Caribbean.

Aren’t those called Women?

From the Phoenixian Book Of Creatures

Ciguapa
A supernatural female being living in the deepest mountain regions of the Dominican Republic. She has dark brown or blue skin with deep black eyes and prefers to go nude wearing only her long black hair around herself.

She can never be caught because her feet are turned backwards so that when she walks she leaves a false trail that always leads her followers away.

 

And again from Fantastical Universe

Others believe the Ciguapa is a supernatural being which lives in mountain caves and in the river shallows under the full moon. Just like some stories depict them as beautiful sirens of the forest, others describe them as hideous hags with green scaled, blue or hairy skin which kill their male victims like a black widow spider. The Ciguapa has been related with the aboriginal Taino Caribbean culture which was decimated by the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the new world.

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Cover Image Artist; Jaime Colson. 1949. Baquiní The Ciguapa from Camú (Museo Bellapart) Dominican Republic