✨30 Natives and The Creepiest Urban Legends In Their Country

28. India

Indian subcontinent. The Churel.

A female ghost that appears as a beautiful young woman to seduce men. Once seduced, she transforms to her true appearance. A hideously scary old woman with backwards feet. Unkempt hair, long saggy breasts, claw like fingernails, long pubic hair, thick black tongue and sharp teeth.

Some Churels will simply kill a man and feast on his flesh. Others will suck his blood or semen, turning him into an old man or causing him to lose his virility.

Usually women who die in childbirth or during menstruation and were ill-treated by her family will turn into a Churel. First they get revenge on the family and once the family is wiped out they will target any young man. They can be found near cemeteries, abandoned buildings or any dark, spooky place.

Some parts of the Indian subcontinent take precautions to prevent women from turning into Churels. Young women that pass on may have special funeral rites. This might include nailing women’s hands and feet when burying them and having her feet shackled in chains. Note that Hindus usually cremate their dead so burying them instead is a big deal.

Every Indian/Pakistani knows someone that knows someone that nearly fell into the clutches of a Churel.  ~

29. Trinidad


The Soucouyant ...I used to be scared she would come and get me at night. She’s described as an old woman who can shed her skin and become a ball of fire or an animal you wouldn’t suspect. She sucks your blood and can turn you into things. To spot a Soucouyant you have to dump 100lbs of rice at a crossroad, and she will be compelled to pick them up grain by grain. If you know who the Soucouyant is, you have to find her shedded skin and put salt in it before dawn. Her skin would shrivel up and she won’t be able to get back inside.



Douens These suckers haunted my nightmares. They are children’s spirits that died before baptism. They have no faces and their feet are back to front (heels facing forward). It still crawls my blood to imagine them with their backwards feet. They can steal children’s names and lure them away from their families.



It’s funny to think of what scared me as a kid. I hated the easter bunny. I imagined a 6ft monster bunny, so I always slept in my parents bed the night before Easter.  ~

30. Slovakia

Not just in Slovakia, but that’s where learned of it, but I’d go with Poludnica.



She is supposed to be the personification of sun stroke, a midday demon. It is said she appeared to farmers working in the fields around noon and engaged them in conversation asking a difficult riddle. If they didn’t know the answer, she would lop off their head with a scythe.



Where I grew up, there is a mountain named after her and the way I was told the story by my grandfather, it doesn’t look like much from a distance, but is in fact the tallest mountain in the surrounding range. The same way Poludnica, the demon, appears as a small, frail woman in the distance at first, but by the time she gets close, it is already too late.   ~