
The weather report means nothing to La Luchuza. So if you didn’t think they were terrifying before, they can literally take anyone out. Lechuzas can carry a full-grown man in their talons. So even if you do see her and she doesn’t hurt you, well, bad stuff is still going to go down. Just by seeing her often indicates something more sinister or dangerous to come, like a deadly hurricane or tornado. There have been instances where people have encountered La Lechuza and instead of killing them, she merely showed her presence. She might warn you of bad things to come. That might mean someone in your family will die. How does this work? Who knows! How is a giant owl lady killing people?! If you dream about her… well… Legend has it that if you try to shoot her dead, you’ll end up dead instead. Normally, you might want to swerve to avoid hitting a bird but maybe with this one, you just go ahead and hit it? Don’t shoot her. If she’s particularly hungry, she has no problem selecting a car filled with people as her next meal and will run you off the road so she can eat you. She might even whistle or screech annoyingly outside your window until you’re so irritated that you’ll open your window and bam! She will pounce on you and scratch your eyes out. Eek! She will also whistle outside your window. If you find unexplained scratches on your door, well, you know who was there waiting for you. She is known to carry away full-grown men within her talons. Once she finds a target, she disguises her voice like a baby’s and will cry outside your door, waiting to pounce on you and swoop you away forever. If you hear a bird screech at night, that’s an omen that La Lechuza is out and looking for her next meal. She flies through the air or perches on trees, looking for things (mostly people) to kill.

This is pretty common for most scary things.

While others describe it as a small bird with the face of an old woman. Some describe the creature as large as 7 feet tall with a 15-foot wingspan and the face of an old woman. Not freaked out enough yet? Here’s what else you need to need to know.

That’s a complicated question with an even more complicated question. If you’re in the mood for all things spooky after learning more about La Lechuza, read our pages on common superstitions, scary facts, scary games, and more next. So, basically, Lechuza is a huge owl lady who kills people. To give you an idea about what we’re talking about here, “lechuza” means “owl” in English. In fact, she’s a shapeshifter who can appear as an ordinary witch during the day and then as a huge bird with a woman’s face. To enact her revenge, she came back as a creepy bird lady. The townsfolk weren’t happy with that so they murdered her. Legend has it Lechuza was a witch who was exposed for practicing the devil’s magic. When Lange goes with the flow and allows elements like this to permeate his music, Canta Lechuza is at its best.The spooky story of La Lechuza started centuries ago and is rooted in Mexican and Texano folklore. Best of all are the heavily processed blurts on "Oreja De Arena", which provide Lange with what sounds like a belching bullfrog as a backup singer. "El Oeste" concludes with a serrated swell that recalls a summer thunderstorm, while "Calculas" features lightning bug synth flashes. This is, after all, a record that was composed in the wilds, and Lange's ability to channel his surroundings affords Canta Lechuza an important transportive quality. Not all of the experimentation is quite so invasive.

It's such a pleasure getting wrapped up in the dreamy ethers of a song like "Lechuguilla", you can't help but feel a bit slighted by the fact that Lange didn't choose to dial it back a bit. He occasionally takes time to build distinct grooves from all these little pieces ("Cenar en La Manana"), but more often than not, his fiddling is distracting. Lange is clearly in the mood to experiment, letting more traditional instruments take a backseat while he fiddles with electronic equipment, peppering nearly every track with whirs, burrs, clicks, and clacks. But instead of Bejar's ornate, romantic bluster, Lange is more interested in negative space, noise, and subtlety- starry-eyed crooning, celestial background textures, and slinky rhythms crafted around bass plinks and plunks that seem to have been stolen from some Barcelona nightclub and slowed to a crawl.īut back to all that noise. Like the latter record, Canta Lechuza finds an artist ignoring his established pastoral leanings while sailing into smoother waters in a style that touches on kitsch. From the outside looking in, Canta Lechuza shares something with Destroyer's latest LP, Kaputt.
