La chusa

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La Chusa is part of the Hispanic folklore. It was a winged female figure resembling an owl that takes people's souls away when they're close to dying. If you whistle, and La Chusa returns the call, according to the myth death is near. You would know she was near by the beating of her wings on one side of the house.