La Mona is one of the most enigmatic scares in Costa Rica. It is a legend that they share with Nicaragua, since there have also been reported appearances of this being. It is believed that they are witches, who have the ability to change their appearance and turn into an animal. This is known as nahuales.
Here I leave you a little story about this strange being, where some of its characteristics are shown. It is based on real events, I only make it clear that a change was made at the end of the story because no one dies or is injured, but the witch, if it was in evidence.
Mona, Monita, get out of here
It was a very large family to live in that wooden and tin shack tucked between the coffee plantations of Puriscal. A relatively young couple who had decided to have their 7 children a year apart.
The youngest of the children became ill during the morning but they had to wait for dawn to be able to go to the Children's Hospital. At that time a taxi would have cost them food for the whole month so they had to walk to the Puriscal Center and from there take a bus to San José.
The mother suffered bitterly knowing that she had to leave her eldest son, barely 8 years old, taking care of her little brothers while she and her husband were absent for who knows how many hours or days.
A few pieces of bread that did not form a pineapple, beans marinated with oregano, achiotada potato and rice full of corroncha was what was left for the children to eat. Pedro, the eldest, knew where to look for eggs that the hens left in various nests watered by the coffee plantation.
There was little food for six growing children but there was no option, they had to take the one-year-old baby to the hospital because the diarrhea had already brought him to the brink of death.
Pedro had to behave like the man of the house and take responsibility for all the needs of his little brothers while their parents were away; at least she already knew how to light the candles and the fire in case her parents hadn't arrived at dusk.
The hours were becoming eternal and the children were already restless due to the absence of their parents, the birds began to flutter among the trees looking for their nests and in the distance the howls of the coyotes were heard warning of the rising of the moon. Pedro tried to stay calm but he couldn't lie to himself, he was very scared, he knew that those coffee plantations were hiding something strange because not even the dogs would come near them at dusk and they would always bark towards a specific point.
The children decided to arrange their pillows and foams in the small space that was kitchen-dining room-living room. All huddled together helped each other to stay calmer. It would be a very long night with her parents absent.
A strange sound alerting the three largest, the wooden wall was being scratched by something, it was as if someone was walking from side to side the wall dragging a tree branch. The kids' blood ran cold and when they could see through the cracks in the wood, extremely white female legs were clearly visible, walking slowly. The poor children began to pray the rosary and suddenly they heard someone or something running across the roof of the ranch with wild screams that made their skin crawl.
They were too scared and began to cry non-stop, but Pedro remembered that his father had told him about La Mona, and that in order for him to stop bothering him, they had to throw salt on him, but Pedro was not going to go out with sticks and even less to throw salt on him , ah no, that if not.
That strange being kept screaming on the ceiling and suddenly the ceiling began to move as if it wanted to give in to the weight of that being.
Pedrito imagined that horrible bug inside the house chasing him and his little brothers, so he grabbed the jar of salt, left the house and very carefully climbed the guava tree that was at the entrance of the ranchet, and when was above could see that being so horrible that it was bothering them. She had the body of a dwarf woman, she was naked and covered by a thick layer of dark hair, even so, her breasts were quite large, she had long hair and her face was a mix between monkey and human. The impact was so great that Pedrito threw the salt on her and then passed out, falling from the tree and being unconscious until the next day.
When he woke up he was inside the house and his parents were already with them. Pedrito told his parents what had happened and his parents told him that when they left the coffee plantation they found Doña Gertrudis dying and her skin completely burned. Doña Gertrudis was a bitter old woman who always got angry when she saw the children playing among the coffee plantations and who lived almost two hundred meters from the small ranchillo.
