The Tisigua.

Since the times of their Nahuatl ancestors, the inhabitants of Tuxtla Gutiérrez told the legend of a beautiful but evil woman who appeared in the Sabinal River, specifically inside the pools that formed between the trunks of the ahuehuetes. Before. the river waters were clean and crystalline, not like now, which have turned black.

Young people liked to come to bathe in them for long hours, but if they were not careful, they could come across this creepy apparition.

One day, a boy came to take a bath. Being in the water for a long time, he could hear some strange clapping behind him. Startled, he turned, only to find the ruffled grass on the shoreline. However, he felt that someone was spying on him. Restless, he continued swimming and soon after heard another noise. This time someone was whistling.

He looked again and was stunned to find a beautiful woman, with white skin and blonde hair, almost red, very similar to fire. Her eyes were blue and the only garment she wore was a transparent petticoat, behind which she could see a slender and sensual silhouette.

The woman was looking at him flirtatiously; The young man felt her blood boil instantly, due to the desire to have an affair with her. It was after the stranger of hers, that she slithered like a viper in the middle of the undergrowth without hurting herself. Instead, he tripped and hurt himself with the thorns that emerged from the grass, he was afraid of stepping on a snake, but he couldn't stop looking at the girl.

He finally managed to catch her and the two kissed passionately.

After a while, the woman plunged back into her pool and he did the same, eager to hold her. The girl took her hat and filled it with water. When placed on the young man's head, the liquid turned into a boiling mud, from which an intense smell of sulfur emanated. He squealed in pain. She giggled and slapped her thighs, teasing him.

When the boy wanted to claim him, he realized that she had come out of the water and was now getting lost in the undergrowth again. emitting a chilling laugh. It was at that moment that he lost his mind.

Crazy, stammering, I try to go after her. He wandered for days in the middle of the jungle, naked, with his eyes lost and his mouth open, until some men from the town found him.

They took him to the church and also to healers, but no one could remedy his madness. The rest of his life was spent wandering between the houses, asking for food from door to door and wanting to see that beautiful woman, in the faces of the housewives who, out of charity, handed him a plate.

That is why to this day, men are warned not to bathe alone in the pools. La Tisigua wanders around, looking for someone whose sanity she can take away.