El Cadejo (llamado Cadejos en Costa Rica), en la narrativa folclórica de Mesoamérica, es un perro espectral de gran tamaño, ojos brillantes, que arrastra cadenas, y que durante las noches aparece en sitios solitarios para cuidar o atormentar a los borrachos o trasnochadores, siendo muy conocida su leyenda en las zonas rurales e incluso urbanas de México y Centroamérica.

The cadejo (Spanish pronunciation: ) is a supernatural spirit that appears as a dog-shaped creature with blue eyes when it's calm and red eyes when it's attacking and roams the isolated roads at night.Central American folklore is of indigenous origin. There is a good white cadejo and an evil black cadejo. Both are spirits that appear at night to travelers: the white cadejo …

Leyendas de Guatemala (Legends of Guatemala, 1930) was the first book to be published by Nobel-prizewinning author Miguel Ángel Asturias.The book is a re-telling of Maya origin stories from Asturias's homeland of Guatemala.It reflects the author's study of anthropology and Central American indigenous civilizations, undertaken in France, at the Sorbonne where he was …

Michael E. Brown (born June 5, 1965) is an American astronomer, who has been professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) since 2003. His team has discovered many trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), including the dwarf planet Eris, which was originally thought to be bigger than Pluto, triggering a debate on the definition of a planet.

The Sihuanaba, La Siguanaba, Cigua or Cegua is a supernatural character from Central American folklore though it can also be heard in Mexico. It is a shapeshifting spirit that typically takes the form of an attractive, long haired woman seen from behind. She lures men away into danger before revealing her face to be that of a horse or, alternatively, a skull.

The Grim was an omen of death, which was reputed to bring about the demise of the person who encountered it. The Grim took the shape of a large, black, menacing, spectral dog. A well-known omen, the Grim had earned infamy throughout the wizarding world and was considered to be one of the worst, if not the worst, omens around. At one point in life prior to 1993, Ron's uncle Bilius …

Dentro de las leyendas de Guatemala y como toda región centroamericana se relata las aventuras y desventuras de personajes físicos y metafísicos correspondientes a personas, animales o cosas quienes, aunados a la mitología maya en el sincretismo indígena, se presentan más que para entretenimiento como una forma de educar a los oyentes y rectificar caminos …

Petén (en itzá: Noj Petén ‘Gran Isla’) [2] es uno de los veintidós departamentos que conforman Guatemala, situado en el extremo septentrional del país, y junto con Chichén Itzá, era la capital del imperio maya.Limita al norte con los estados mexicanos de Quintana Roo y Campeche; al sur con los departamentos de Izabal y Alta Verapaz; al sureste con el Departamento del Quiche; …

The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, the 46th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, was held from September 9 to 18, 2021. Due to the continued COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, the festival was staged as a "hybrid" of in-person and digital screenings. Most films were screened both in-person and on the digital platform, although a few titles were …

El Cadejos es, en la narrativa folclórica, un perro negro de gran tamaño, ojos brillantes, que arrastra cadenas, y que durante las noches se aparece a los borrachos en sitios solitarios para atemorizarlos y motivarlos a enmendar su comportamiento. [5] Padilla lo describe como un perro grande de espesa pelambre negra, muy larga y ojos rojos encendidos; [6] Fallas lo define …