The Mexican ‘Nahual’ in contemporary urban and digital storytelling
- Date of account
- 2010 onward
- Location
- Mexico, especially central and southern regions
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Nahual or nagual traditions concern people, ritual specialists or beings associated in different Mesoamerican contexts with animal transformation, spiritual counterparts or specialized power. During the 2010s the figure continued appearing in Mexican oral narratives, online horror forums, newspapers and popular culture. It offers a strong comparison case for the transformation of Indigenous concepts into a generic ‘werewolf’ story. Meanings vary by language community and historical source, and the Spanish spelling nahual does not guarantee that two accounts belong to the same cultural tradition.
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