Aztecan Vampire Goddesses Tlalteuctli earth lady: This goddess was never shown as a woman, but as a giant toad with blood-covered jaws. Coatlicue serpent skirt: A grotesque, ugly figure whose statue is in the National Museum in Mexico City. It has a necklace of hands and hearts with a skull shaped pendant. It also has a skirt of snakes, the head is severed with stream of blood gushing that becomes a two-headed rattlesnake. Cihuacoatl snake woman: Another grotesque creature with stringy hair. She would change her outer features into a beautiful young lady who would seduce young men. They would have sexual relations and then she would kill them unexpectedly. Itzpapalotl obsidian knife butterfly: Her form was that of a sacrificial knife. She's less vampiric than the other goddesses. Cihuateteo: It was the most vampiric of all the goddesses. Females who died in childbirth would turn into this type of vampire. |
Source: The Vampire Book by J. Gordon Melton. |