Case file · Folklore / legend
La Patasola
A one-legged woman of the Colombian mountain forests who lures hunters, woodcutters and miners and drinks their blood; told especially in Antioquia and the coffee region.
1900 CE · 6.25, -75.56 · status: legend
The account
Versions make her an unfaithful wife punished with the loss of a leg. Year approximate: the legend is recorded in twentieth-century Colombian folklore collections.