The Screechy Wagon or Witch Wagon ( La Carreta Chillona or Carreta Bruja) is a story that supposedly happened in a small town located in the foot skirts of a northeastern hill called Santa Catalina , San Esteban in the Department of San Vicente. The people of the village believed in all the ghostly range of Salvadoran mythology, such as La Siguanaba , El Cipitio, El Duende, etc.

The Witch Wagon appeared to a tattletale woman named Cirinla. It was a wagon of a normal size without oxen but carrying a human skull with a grotesque smile at the end of the sticking poles. The wagon’s load consisted of a bunch of beheaded skeletons twined together like tentacles of thousand octopuses. The wagon drivers instead of a head had a bunch of yellow grass. On the left hand they held a

sticking pole and on the right hand an enormous black whip. Dancing and whip lashing over the corpses they shouted and mentioned the names of all the people in town that were known as liars, false and hypocrites. And while saying their names, the whip lashes sounded as stampede of bullets on the bare backs of the tortured bodies.

Cirinlas’s curiosity was such that when she heard the sound of the Witch Wagon she went out of her house to see it and she was so frightened by it that next day she was found dead surrounded by a pond of her own curious, tattletale, high-spirited, criticizing and judging blood. And since then the Witch Wagon no longer was heard trampling on the rocky earth streets of the quiet little town.