"A more modern and more popular nickname for the city is
Pueblo de los brujos ("town of witches" or "town of warlocks") or
Pueblo brujo ("witch town"). This nickname traces its origins to a popular story that tells that residents of the city would bring a kind of leaf called
hoja bruja ("witch leaf") to
baseball games to "scare" the opposing team by pretending to cast spells on them. The town's baseball team then adopted the
hoja bruja as their symbol.
[7] Another story tells that the nickname comes from a legendary baseball player from the city's local team, Moncho El Brujo, who according to legend owed his success as a
pitcher to witchcraft.
[9] Regardless of the origin of the nickname, residents of Guayama are often called
brujos and their
basketball team now carries the name
Brujos de Guayama ("Guayama Warlocks").
[10]"
logo based on children's book The Witch in the Tower by Julia Sardi