Honduras Myths: 4 Stories You May Not Have Known About

Meet with us the most surprising and fascinating Honduras Myths. We explain their origins and popular legends.

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Honduras Myths

Honduras Myths

When you travel, you can learn about all kinds of interesting things. But the favorite aspects are all those that make each culture unique and colorful. One place you can visit is Honduras, where you can learn some myths of Honduras that you may not have known about and ghost stories that are fun and interesting. They are a big part of their history and many people believe in them.

So here we show you the most amazing stories of Honduras. Surely you didn’t know these myths or legends within the Honduran culture.

1.  La sucia

Undoubtedly La sucia is one of the best known myths of Honduras. There are also variants of it throughout the rest of Central America and Mexico.

This is the story of a beautiful lady who lived with her parents. When she was 15 years old she met a boy and fell in love. She went to her parents and asked for his hand in marriage because they knew of his family and he had the reputation of a hard worker which they accepted immediately.

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La sucia

On the day of the wedding, the friar asked for a document stating that they had both been baptized. But she did not have it. So the friar did not marry them.

The girl fell into such a dark depression that she ended up going crazy. The boy lost all hope of being able to marry her and left. It was then that she decided never to take off her wedding dress.

One day, while walking along a nearby river, she heard that her loved one was going to marry another girl. This made her feel so sad and desperate that she began to run and scream until she found a cliff from where she jumped. Her soul was left on this earth, searching for her loved one.

She can be found at night near the lakes, still in her wedding dress and tends to appear in front of men. Her beauty attracts men, but once they are close, she turns into something horrible, like the myth of the weeping woman. They go crazy after seeing such a horrible creature.

2.  The sisimite, in the myths of Honduras

According to Honduran mythology, the sisimite is a horrible monster that is described as a big foot, or Yeti look. It is a kind of huge monkey with long hair that looks strong and lives deep in the forests and in the highest mountains of the region. According to the myths of Honduras, it only leaves the depths of the forests to look for women that it kidnaps and takes to its cave.

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The sisimite

The most famous story is that of a woman who, after years of being kidnapped and having her 3 children, managed to escape with them. When the monster found out, it followed her and her children. In desperation, she crossed a river leaving her children behind. The Sisimite then drowned the children as revenge against the woman.

3.  The cadejo, Honduras myths

In Honduran mythology there are also strange animals and this creature is known as El cadejo which is a mythical animal that tends to follow people at night as a kind of guardian. It has the shape of a big black dog with eyes that look like fire and huge teeth. Most of the time he follows drunk people in the streets. He helps them find their way home safely or stays close to them if they fall asleep so they don’t get robbed.

These honduran myths also tell of the beast involving other dogs, such as a white one. This is the one that follows drunk women and there is also a gray one that worries about lonely children. It is also said that whenever one of these dogs follows someone, negative spirits stay away.

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El cadejo

The white dog

In the early 1900s, Juan Carlos was a tutor who lived in a thatched house near Los Arcos, in the fields near La Aurora in Guatemala. He worked near Parroquia Vieja and arrived home at midnight. Most of the time, his wife and young children spend the whole day alone in the middle of the fields. Juan found a white dog when he arrived home one day.

When the dog saw him coming, he would shake, turn and disappear. Juan always tried to follow the dog, but he could never catch up with it. One day when he arrived, the white dog never moved, and when he approached the dog, he didn’t make a sound. But then Juan touched his paw, and suddenly he opened his eyes. Juan was frightened; the dog said, “You don’t need my help anymore.

Frightened, Juan exclaimed, “What help?” And the dog said, pained, “I am a dog sent from above. My mission was to protect you from any danger. But you had shown me that you no longer need my help.” Right after that, the white dog closed his eyes. John buried it, and every time he came home, he remembered the white dog.

4.  Hunted house of Copán

This is one of the myths of Honduras that talks about a small house located on a green hill where cows eat and hang out. No one has lived in it for a long time. People say that anyone who tries to live in it dies before they have time to leave it.

The people of Copán say they can hear horrible screams coming from inside. So the locals, fearful of suffering some kind of misfortune, avoid passing by this cute little house.

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Copan Hunted House

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