Myth The Mother Mount

The peasants and lumberjacks who have seen her say that she is a tall, elegant lady, dressed in fresh leaves and green moss, with a hat covered with leaves and green feathers. You can not appreciate the face because the hat is opaque. There are many people who know their screams or bellows in dark nights and dangerous tempest. It lives in tangled places, with leafy trees, away from the noise of civilization and in the warm forests, with harmful animals.

The peasants say that when the Madremonte bathes in the headwaters of the rivers, they become turbid and overflow, causing floods, strong storms, causing terrible damage.

La Madre Monte - Colombian Myths and LegendsCharges those who invade their lands and fight for boundaries; The perjured, the wicked, the unfaithful husbands, and the vagabonds. He curses the cattle of the owners who plunder other lands or cut the fences of the adjoining ones with pests. Those who walk in bad footsteps make them see an unassailable and impenetrable mountain, or a tangle of rushes or bushes difficult to give way, erasing the road and feeling a dizziness from which they wake up only after a few hours, convinced themselves To have been nothing more than a hallucination, once the path they have gone through has been the same.

The myth is known in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay with names like: Honeysuckle, Ghost of the mount and Mother of the hills.

They say that to get rid of the attacks of the Madremonte it is convenient to go smoking a tobacco or with a vase of adolescent tied around the waist. It is also advisable to carry peas of cavalonnga in the pocket or a recently cut rod of guayacan cord; It is also useful, for the case, to carry scapulars and blessed medals or to pray the prayer of San Isidro Labrador, lawyer of the mountains and the sawmills.