Venezuelan myths and legends 2 "El Silbón"
This is a Legend of the Venezuelan plains and much of its population says to have seen it in the dry season sitting on dry trunk picking up the dust with their hands, but they also say that in the rainy season when the whistle begins to roam to kill womeniegos, drunkards and rarely an innocent, the people who had for the plains say that when he is seated his knees go over his shoulders since he is very tall, he also says that he wears a sack where he carries the pale and poor bones of his parents and that has a peculiar whistle that terrifies the one who hears it.
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It is said that when one of his victims is a drunk he grabs them and sucks them by the navel to remove all the liquor they ingested, but also says that when he is a womanizer he grabs them and cuts them to put his remains in the bag with the bones of his father.
They say that his hissing at being heard far away and very soft means that he is close to you, and when he hears him close and very loud it means that he is far away, but anyway they say that when he hears his whistle no matter how strong it is, it is taken as an omen of death and the only thing that can save you at that moment is the barking of a dog, a whip or a chili.
All they have just read is the legend of the wigeon, but before this legend is the legend of its origin, and it is said that the wigeon was a boy who realized that something strange was happening between his father and his wife , some say that the father fated his wife, but most people say that what really happened was that the father raped his son's wife, and he realizing this when he saw them in the act and full of anger and anger was responsible for killing his father with blows, the grandfather of the young man who was near the count had spent the whole fight ran to the house to see what happened, and to find his dead son and his grandson on the swear to punish him, so I take him and tied him to a post where he began to whip him until he could no longer, and then covered him with ajis and let go of rabid and hungry dogs to eat him, from there comes the reason why the whistler is afraid of those three things.
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