Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

I’m always stumbling across folk tales and superstitions when I’m out and about researching material for features. It seems that almost every village on Tenerife and the Western Islands has a tale to tell of star-crossed lovers or strange apparitions on beaches and in ravines. So, with Halloween in mind, I’ve sifted through them and put together a collection of the ones that stood out from the crowd and that would best be told in hushed tones with a torch held under the chin for maximum ghostly effect.
 
If your nerves are up to it, Living Tenerife brings the gruesome tale of what happened to a particularly unpopular local on La Palma and about the Masca man who found himself confronted by two naked women in El Palmar…