Rucu Pichincha, who was Mama Cotacachi's former lover, found out about the liaison and decided to punishher by taking away their child, Guagua Pichincha.
Such ghost-revellers would have expected to see a scowling, long-haired woman in a white funeral gown and with no feet the classic image of the wife who, betrayed and murdered by her husband, returns from the dead to punishher tormentor.