Another ghost who is said to have descended from one person, the myth of La Sayona is prevalent in Venezuela and other nearby countries. Originally a mortal woman named Melissa, she was extremely beautiful and took a loving husband, with whom she had a son. As she bathed in the river, a common occurrence, a strange man came up to Melissa and told her that her husband was sleeping with her mother. Angered, she stormed back to her house, where she found her husband and son in bed, quietly sleeping.Blind with rage, she burned the house down, killing the two of them. Melissa then went to her mother’s house, where she stabbed her to death. Just before she died, her mother cursed her, telling Melissa that she would be forced to walk the Earth, killing any husbands who were cheating on their own wives. Today, she can be seen as a beautiful woman strolling up and down the highway to lure men into her grasp. She sometimes takes the form of a loved one to trick the men, and then reveals a rotting skull where her face once was.