Case file · Folklore / legend
The ciguapa
In Dominican folklore the ciguapa is a small, beautiful woman of the mountains with long hair covering her body and feet that face backwards, so her tracks lead the wrong way.
1866 CE · 19.05, -70.90 · status: legend
The account
She is said to come out at night and lure men, who are never seen again. The year marks Francisco Javier Angulo Guridi's story La ciguapa (1866), the earliest well-known literary telling.