"LA MATLAZIHUA" LEYEND

 

Many men say that when they arrive at a party or a bar, few or no women are attractive to them, but as the night progresses and the consumption of alcohol accelerates, the girls suddenly become much more attractive so they decide to go chat with them to try to win her over. But in Oaxaca you have to be more cautious, as there are many stories that describe a beautiful woman known as Matlazihua, who dresses in a white blanket and walks through the streets late at night and near dawn. Legend has it that she appears to drunken and lonely lovers, with whom she flirts and invites them to follow her. Her haunted victims accompany her to bushes especially of huizache, a thorny and odorous plant. The scratches the victims receive upon entering the huizache lowers their drunkenness, leaving them perplexed as to how they got there. Although there are stories in almost all the towns of Oaxaca, the Matlazihua appeared for the first time in Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz. Although the men who have fallen under the spell of this lady remember her as very attractive, none have been able to describe her face, but they emphasize that her seductive body envelops them with her walk until they become victims.