Nahuala is the main antagonist of the 2007 Mexican animated film and the first full-length film by Animex Producciones The Legend of Nahuala (in Spanish La Leyenda de la Nahuala).
She is voiced by the Mexican actress Ofelia Medina.
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Day of the Dead 1755[]
During the night of All Saints' Eve in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles, an evil nahual of unknown origin appeared in front of the mansion of the Villavicencio family (one of the most important families in Puebla) who was stalking them in order to find a human body and become the most powerful of all. Somehow he manages to get into the kitchen, where he bumps into the cook and she is attacked by the entity, who pounces on her and takes her body and subsequently turns into the Nahuala.
Once in the dining room where all the members of the Villavicencio family were excited about their dinner, the cook (already transformed into Nahuala) served them an enchanted soup where a creature emerged and sucked the finger of one of the guests until it turned him into a skeleton, while the others watched in horror until other creatures came out of their respective soups and proceeded to do the same to them.
Meanwhile in Cholula, a young friar named Godofredo was with some shamans where they indicated that the ritual of the new fire was about to begin and they knew that the nahual would use it to obtain eternal life, so without wasting time they went to the capital where the creature was. Meanwhile in the manor, the Nahuala was ready to carry out her plan with her medallion (Miquiztli) and sacrifice the souls of 3 innocent girls (the maid Xochitl, the only daughter of the Villavicencio Teodora and her friend Toñita).
The friar and the other shamans arrive to where the evil witch was, but however Teodora and Xóchitl had fallen victims of this, on the other hand Toñita seeing what happened to her friends attacked the Nahuala stealing the medallion allowing her to free their souls and also helping Godofredo and the shamans to face her with the help of the skull of Tezcatlipoca (which on its back came a mirror which could retain her).
Despite having defeated her physically, the Nahuala was able to take over the house using her spirit and with nothing more to do, the group together with a young girl Toñita left the place where they could only rescue a boy named Santos and believing that the medallion of Miquiztli had been lost forever, the shamans sealed the manor so that no one could enter after the paranormal event that took place there.
Day of the Dead 1807[]
52 years after that incident, on yet another day of the dead
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- Her voice actress (Ofelia Medina) returned 10 years later to dub for the Spanish voice of Frida Kahlo in Pixar's Coco.
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