Under the cut you're going to find some folklore creatures you can use in your spn fanfics that are from the north part of South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, etc) + how you should use them for it to be a proper portrayal of their culture:
La Muelona / La Dientona:
She was the victim of abusive and she died because of them. As a ghost, she appears on the edge of roads as a very attractive woman with a beautiful voice. Her main victims are men with alcohol problems, men who abuse women and cheaters. Her title can be translated as "The woman with big teeth" and it makes reference to her main trait, which either make men run or she uses them to eat them alive.
This is more a rural tale. For the purpose of this post, you can use it as a version of the "woman in white" or the ghost of a woman searching for revenge.
La Mano Peluda:
This monster is a hairy hand, double the size of a human hand. It goes alone without a body and drags kids out of their beds, wounding them. It is in fact a common tale to tell your kids when you want them to behave. "If you don't behave, la mano peluda is going to come to take you away".
This monster can go after Latine kids, using the power of their families' beliefs.
Curacanga:
Curacanga is a fire ball that roams in nights were the moon is full or every Friday at midnight. It scares everyone and leaves burning ground wherever it passes. However, there is a woman's head in the middle of the fire ball. The story tells that the woman goes to sleep, not knowing that as soon as he falls unconscious, her head separates from her body and catches fire, going through the town.
This is a Brazilian tale and in some versions, the whole things is caused by her being the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter. This could be a family thing, in fact.
ProcissĆ£o de Almas:
This parade of souls is part of a story of who a woman that was really into gossip payed for her sins. In Latam during the colonialism and still like that on more rural towns, it was and it's normal for houses to have big windows where women could sit inside the house to see the street. They could stay there and talk with people outside or have visits.
The gossip woman was there late at night when she saw the parade of souls. The were dressed in white with lighten candles. In front there had a black cross with black covers and behind a reaper itself followed them. They gave the gossip woman a candle to keep and told her the next day, they would talk again.
The woman when to sleep with the candle beside her bed. When she woke up, instead there was a children bone when the candle should be. She was dead before help arrived.
This could happen in graveyards with a lot of Latine people buried there and it could be a reaction of a person ruining the community, or making their families suffer.
Las Animas Benditas del Purgatorio:
The "blessed souls of Purgatory" are a huge thing, being honest. This belief comes from catholicism and it consists on the idea that some souls who sinned on Earth will go to heaven, but first they need to purge their sins. To help them purge their sins faster, people request them favors and in exchange for a good service, they pray for their sins to be forgiven, the burn candles for them, stuff like that.
However, if you request something from them, if they help you but you forget to help them in return, they're going to follow you and scare you and do shit like drag you out of bed by your feet.
They will help anyone, if they promise to help them in return. It's popular for people to asks them things like take care of their houses when they're away, and that night the neighbors would say it was a party on that house. Or to accompany them while traveling alone by car, and people would swear they saw two people inside the vehicle.
