Cigua (Honduras)
Cigua was a very hard-working Honduran girl. She was alluring and everyone loved her. She lived in a rural area with her parents. She always helped her mother at home, especially washing clothes in a nearby river.
When Cigua turned 15 years old, a young man fell in love with her. It was love at first sight. The boy belonged to a good and wealthy family from the same town.
The boy without thinking twice went to ask for the girl's hand. Cigua's parents realized the boy belonged to a wealthy family and accepted his proposal. In the following days, they agreed on their marriage date and started to organize everything.
Several months passed and the wedding day arrived. Once at the altar, the priest asked the new couple to give him their baptismal certificates (a mandatory requirement). The boy presented his one, but the girl did not have any. She was not baptized.
The couple begged the priest with all their hearts, but they could not get married. He declined each and every single supplication, even the proposals coming from the relatives who requested that he baptize her in the same act and then marry her. He was a very strict priest and rejected every proposal.
The following weeks were tough, the young woman fell into a deep depression because she could not get married. The depression was so extreme that it seemed to have gone crazy. Her boyfriend, seeing her situation, moved away from her and forgot her.
The girl's depression was so massive that made her never take off her wedding dress (figure 1). She wore it every day wherever she went.
One day, the girl was washing clothes in the river when she overheard that her beloved man was going to marry another woman.
The girl could not believe what she had heard. For a brief moment, she recovered her sanity and cried inconsolably. However, she started to suffer more and more. Her pain was unstoppable. That night, she disappeared from her town and ran out screaming to the nearest cliff. She jumped on it, killing herself instantly.
From that day, the Hondurans said that the girl's spirit wanders near rivers and streams searching for her beloved one.
Cigua often appears in the rivers and streams dressed in white, especially to the rogue men who roam drunk or are womanizers. However, she will scare anyone who dares to appear wherever she is on that day.
To attract men, the spectrum appears as a beautiful naked woman or transforms into the figure of the current partner or love interest. The men always run happily towards her. However, when he is close, he becomes a horrible horror that drives him crazy.
On rare occasions, some Hondurans said that she also appears with her hair facing in front of her covering her face, and the person who manages to see it goes crazy.
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