La Pascualita or Little Pascuala is a bridal mannequin that has “lived”

in a store window in Chihuahua, Mexico for the past 75 years. That is

quite a long time for a bridal gown shop to retain a mannequin, but then

the dummy has a rather strange history behind it. According to an urban

legend, La Pascualita isn’t a dummy at all, but the perfectly preserved corpse of the previous owner’s daughter.

La Pascualita was first installed in the store window on March 25th,

1930, dressed in a spring-seasonal bridal gown. The effect was

instantaneous. People simply could not tear their sight away from this

new mannequin, with the wide-set glass eyes, real hair and blushing skin

tone. Soon, they realized that the mannequin closely resembled the

shop’s owner at the time, Pascuala Esparza who had died recently on her wedding day after being bitten by a Black Widow spider