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The cadejo (Spanish pronunciation:) is a supernatural spirit that appears as a dog-shaped creature with blue eyes when it is calm and red eyes when it is attacking. It roams around isolated roads at night, [1] according to Central American folklore of indigenous origin. There is a good white cadejo and an evil black cadejo.
In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, black hound is another name for the intelligent moon dog, which counter to expectations is a helpful creature bent on hunting evil. [ 111 ] [ 112 ] The game also features evil yeth hounds as "massive, human-faced dogs that serve as the hunting dogs of powerful fey ".
El Cadejo – There is a good white cadejo and an evil black cadejo. Both are spirits that appear at night to travellers. Both are spirits that appear at night to travellers. The white cadejo to protect them from harm during their journey, and the black cadejo (sometimes an incarnation of the devil) to kill them.
In Belizean folklore, we find the legends of La Llorona, [2] Cadejo, [3] the Tata Duende, [4] and X'tabai. [5] The idea of the mystical healing and Obeah is prominent in Belizean legend, and there is still talk of evil shaman practices like putting "Obeah" on certain houses. This is known to be done by burying a bottle with the 'evil' under a ...
Cadejo (Central America) – Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid; Cailleach – Divine creator and weather deity hag; Caipora – Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit; Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) – White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die; Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) – Humanoid with an eight-year lifespan
In the state of Coahuila, within the city of Torreón, this terrible specter that frightens men was a woman who received a curse or was the victim of witchcraft, black magic, or a satanic ritual, so she became an evil or a demonic entity seeking "revenge." They tend to appear to lustful people, womanizers, or night owls.
Across much of Mexico, evil sorcerers are believed to be able to transform themselves into a black dog in order to prey upon the livestock of their neighbours. In the states of central Mexico (such as Oaxaca, Tlaxcala and Veracruz ) such a sorcerer is known as a nahual , in the Yucatan Peninsula they go by the name of huay chivo .
In Catalan myth, Dip (Catalan pronunciation:) is an evil, black hellhound and emissary of the Devil, who sucks people's blood. Like other figures associated with demons in Catalan myth, he is lame in one leg. Dip is pictured on the escutcheon of Pratdip. The legend is very old.