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The peoples from El Chocó and form the Pacific Coast have the belief in The Tunda, a woman who was born as fruit of the concubinage of the devil with a beautiful black woman who) fell in love during one night. This legendary woman has a human and different foot in the shape of a mill, which hides skilfully when it(he,she) faces someone. The only way of knowing her is discovering her skilfully find the leg of mill.
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One appears the Tunda to the solitary children in the shape of mom or a nearby relative, or of a nice woman. Though also she presents the adult persons. A person "entundada" is that one that is called by the Tunda by her name, and stepwise one takes her to the jungle and there the entunda.
When a child is entundado, the parents and the godfathers have that UN-tundarlo with prayers, conjurations and with bass-drums and saucers in order that she returns it. Sometimes one appears in a house and makes believe the alone children that she is her mom who comes to contemplate them.
In el Chocó, they remember that once in a popular reign, a mom made her son alone in the house. Within a few hours there came LaTunda a lady very looked like to their mom, who after greeting it disappeared mysteriously. The child went to the plaza where the mother was in the reign that was realized and asked him if had visited it a few hours before. The surprised mom answered that never had gone out of the plaza, to which they came to the conclusion that the visitor was The Tunda.
The peoples of the Coastal Pacific Ocean also have the belief of which the Tunda makes lose the wayfarers of the shores of the sea. They tell that in Bocagrande's beaches there got lost a few tourists who were going for the beach. In a moment when they were walking, everything was a silence around it; they were not even listening to the noise of the sea.
They got lost in the middle of the palms and the trees, and providing that they were doing the attempt of returning to the hamlet, they were returning to the same point from where they got lost. According to them, it seemed that they were walking in an unknown dimension.
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