m (I put very clear that he is a venezuelan legend, It's redudant put "The plains of Venezuela", He died in a jungle nearby of the farm of his family and disappear overall, so don't put "The plains of Venezuela", Ugh.) Tags: Visual edit apiedit |
(corrected spelling mistakes. The Colombian version seems similar to the Big Gray Man of Ben MacDhui in Scotland who is also a lonely spirit who likes to talk with mortals yet they all flee from him) Tag: rte-source |
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Once upon a time, a young man was working in his father's farm in Venezuela, received a notice about his wife who has been called "A Horn" by her own father and killed by him which put him in great rage over him and killed his father-in-law, the farmer's grandfather decided to exact punishment on his grandson by commanding some other farmers to brutally torture his grandson in a long painful revenge, first whipping his grandson's back and put salt to increase the pain and finally, to kill his grandson his put in a loose two monstrous black dogs who bite his ankles, while he scream and pain and fled to the jungle nearby, where his body is never to be found. |
Once upon a time, a young man was working in his father's farm in Venezuela, received a notice about his wife who has been called "A Horn" by her own father and killed by him which put him in great rage over him and killed his father-in-law, the farmer's grandfather decided to exact punishment on his grandson by commanding some other farmers to brutally torture his grandson in a long painful revenge, first whipping his grandson's back and put salt to increase the pain and finally, to kill his grandson his put in a loose two monstrous black dogs who bite his ankles, while he scream and pain and fled to the jungle nearby, where his body is never to be found. |
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| − | + | Some people said that afterwards, his spirit become a damned soul, Hell-bent into killing mostly drunks people or adulterers who he found in his way, as well as attacking and scaring any person who hear his terrifying whistle. |
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==Appearance== |
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| − | It's Hard to say what personality, El Silbon may had went he was alive, In some version he is a good hearted man |
+ | It's Hard to say what personality, El Silbon may had went he was alive, In some version he is a good hearted man whose wife was expecting a baby and his father killed his wife with his unborn son, it's that reason that he's a restless soul Hell-bent in kill anybody who stand in his way. |
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+ | In another depiction, he seen as a lonely man, who wants something to talk, and move to the afterlife. Although however, there more versions more obscure of the character who is a spoiled young man who killed his father and eat his organs for lunch. |
| − | After he become |
+ | After he become a spirit, he only kills adulterers, drunk men or innocent victims who stand in his way. He who hears the whistle close is saved, but if someone hears his whistle far he is close and that person lose all the chances to escape. |
==Videos== |
==Videos== |
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==Trivia== |
==Trivia== |
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+ | *El Silbon is easily one (if not "the") most evil and disturbing of all the spirits of the legends found in Venezuela with the huge region of La Sayona. |
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+ | **In fact, he is one of the legends most respected and feared spirits, and many people do not like to say his name during the night. |
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+ | *Most people mistake El Silbon for a mere spectre, this is false, He can be considered the Big Bad from all Venezuelan mythos. |
| − | *There is Many debate about whether or not, El Silbon is a Complete Monster or |
+ | *There is Many debate about whether or not, El Silbon is a Complete Monster or not, due to the Fact that he kill his father with any remorse, However since he want to avenge his wife and unborn son, he's still considered a tragic villain. |
| − | **Ironically |
+ | **Ironically enough, His Colombian depiction, it is truly sympathetic, In this version, he is a man who simply desires a companion to talk with and finally go to the Afterlife. A similar version of this character exists in the [[wikipedia:Fear Liath|Big Gray Man of Ben MacDhui]], who is also simply a restless spirit. |
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Revision as of 14:07, 14 December 2016
El Silbon (which translated to English means: The Whistler) is a spirit found in Venezuelan legends, He was a former farmer who become a damned soul after he kill his father.
History
Once upon a time, a young man was working in his father's farm in Venezuela, received a notice about his wife who has been called "A Horn" by her own father and killed by him which put him in great rage over him and killed his father-in-law, the farmer's grandfather decided to exact punishment on his grandson by commanding some other farmers to brutally torture his grandson in a long painful revenge, first whipping his grandson's back and put salt to increase the pain and finally, to kill his grandson his put in a loose two monstrous black dogs who bite his ankles, while he scream and pain and fled to the jungle nearby, where his body is never to be found.
Some people said that afterwards, his spirit become a damned soul, Hell-bent into killing mostly drunks people or adulterers who he found in his way, as well as attacking and scaring any person who hear his terrifying whistle.
Appearance
The appearance of El Silbon has not really been described, because of the fact that he invariably kills all his unfortunate victims, thus no one has been able to give him a good image. But it is generally believed he is of a tall, emaciated human male, gigantic in stature, somewhere between twenty and forty foot high, dressed in tattered farmer's clothes. He mostly likes lurking in the local swamps and torturing those who pass into insanity with his eerie whistle.
Personality
It's Hard to say what personality, El Silbon may had went he was alive, In some version he is a good hearted man whose wife was expecting a baby and his father killed his wife with his unborn son, it's that reason that he's a restless soul Hell-bent in kill anybody who stand in his way.
In another depiction, he seen as a lonely man, who wants something to talk, and move to the afterlife. Although however, there more versions more obscure of the character who is a spoiled young man who killed his father and eat his organs for lunch.
After he become a spirit, he only kills adulterers, drunk men or innocent victims who stand in his way. He who hears the whistle close is saved, but if someone hears his whistle far he is close and that person lose all the chances to escape.
Videos
Trivia
- El Silbon is easily one (if not "the") most evil and disturbing of all the spirits of the legends found in Venezuela with the huge region of La Sayona.
- In fact, he is one of the legends most respected and feared spirits, and many people do not like to say his name during the night.
- Most people mistake El Silbon for a mere spectre, this is false, He can be considered the Big Bad from all Venezuelan mythos.
- There is Many debate about whether or not, El Silbon is a Complete Monster or not, due to the Fact that he kill his father with any remorse, However since he want to avenge his wife and unborn son, he's still considered a tragic villain.
- Ironically enough, His Colombian depiction, it is truly sympathetic, In this version, he is a man who simply desires a companion to talk with and finally go to the Afterlife. A similar version of this character exists in the Big Gray Man of Ben MacDhui, who is also simply a restless spirit.