Chupacabra

When I was a little girl and I would have a terrible temper, my great-grandmother would always tell me, "Si sigues asi te voy a dejar afuera para que el Chupacabra te coma," which translates to "If you keep it up I will leave you outside so that the Chupacabra can eat you." The Chupacabra myth is well-known in Puerto Rico since the myth originated there in the 1990s. You can ask anyone about the Chupacabra in the streets of Puerto Rico and they will talk your ear off about the beast.
The name “Chupacabra” if split in two one can tell the obvious Spanish origin and meaning of the name. The word Chupar, meaning “to suck”, and Cabra, meaning “goat”; one can see that the name “Chupacabra” means “goat sucker.” Now the reason such a name was given to the beast was that the name
The Chupacabra is a monster similar to the description of a Hellhound, with a reptilian body, oval head, bulging red eyes, fanged teeth and long, darting tongue. Even though most people believe that the Chupacabra only eats other animals, in my family it is told that it eats anything with a beating heart. As told by my great-grandmother, the origin story goes, that after Atabey, the original earth mother and powerful creator of the Taíno people, had her two sons, Yucajú and Guacar, so they can finish her work on creating the world, Guacar became jealous of what was Yucajú doing and became the evil spirit Juracán. Things occurred, and the world was created, although Juracán tried his best to destroy what Atabey and Yucajú created, he was still defeated by his brother. But Juracán created monsters, one of them being the Chupacabra, so there would be no complete peace on earth. Also, my great-grandmother said that the reason the Chupacabra mostly eats goats and chickens is that both animals represent fertility of