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La Guajolota. My name is Armando. Many years ago he lived in a

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small town, quite quiet in the
State of Hidalgo. Our family was made

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up of my parents, my two
sisters and me, who was the youngest.

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Our nights weren' t as quiet
as one could imagine. There was

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something in the air when the sun
was hidden, a feeling of restlessness that

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kept us on alert, as well
as a strange smell that appeared only at

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night. This was happening in a
large part of the village. People started

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to get restless. The reason was
because, for several consecutive nights the heat

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intensified and a very rare sound woke
us up. It was kind of like

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a weird laugh, but not well
defined. Moreover, not every laugh was

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heard very sharp and sinister that seemed
to come from the roofs of the houses.

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We all listened to her, but
strangely, no one had seen anything.

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The neighbors, also somewhat nervous,
began to murmur about it and said

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that there could be many things among
them animals, such as nocturnal birds.

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The elderly said they were ghosts and
even witches. For the same reason,

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at bedtime, my mom turned off
the light, keeping us in the dark.

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According to her, that was for
protection in case something tried to find

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us. Another thing my mom was
doing was that she had scissors buried in

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the salt sack every night she would
put her hand in, pull out the

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scissors, which had them tied with
a red ribbon, so that they couldn

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' t be closed then she would
put them under our mattress. With his

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hands full of salt he drew a
sign of the cross in front of me

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and my sisters. One night I
woke up a sound something was walking on

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our roof. It wasn' t
a person' s steps, it was

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a heavy animal that came and went
I' ve been listening to it for

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several minutes. In my unconsciousness and
without measuring risks, I got up to

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see where that sound came from.
I left my house without making a noise

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with a little torch that barely gleamed. I walked practically in the dark all

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over the yard. I hit the
top of the trees and the roof,

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but there was nothing anywhere. Our
house was in the middle of the land.

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That' s why I could turn
him around. When I was going

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to get in, I heard that
weird laugh behind me. When I turned

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with the light of the flashlight,
I could see it in the middle of

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the backyard stood a very large and
strange bird that, looking at me ran

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to hide in the darkness. At
that moment I was guessed to be a

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guajolote, but it seemed to me
that it was almost two meters long I

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got into the house to the NR
fast. Scared because we didn' t

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have that kind of animal, nor
did the neighbors. But in addition to

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the strange sound it made and its
size, I realized that his eyes were

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shining in a terrifying way. After
a few minutes, a tremendous fear came

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to me when I thought I had
seen a demon or something that night I

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slept in fear the next day,
without saying that I had gone out into

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the yard, I told my sisters
what was out in their faces. I

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realized they didn' t believe me. Maybe it was normal that they didn

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' t. During the day I
searched for prints where I had seen that

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animal, but to my surprise,
there was nothing, not even a trace.

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With fear, I looked inside the
trees. Maybe he was hiding there

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I didn' t find anything weird
either. The next night was the same.

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I got up because of the inexplicable
noises that time. I didn'

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t dare go out because I didn' t know how dangerous the animal I

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' d seen could be. I
just looked out the window, thinking if

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I saw him again, I'
d wake my parents, but he never

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showed up. At that time I
was very close to one of my neighbors.

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We' d be a few eleven
years old when I told him what

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I' d seen in my yard. He told me that he too had

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seen him once and described him to
me, just as he introduced himself to

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me that night. When she talked
to her mom, she told her they

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had to be very careful because that
animal was surely a witch and the dangerous

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witches were transformed into cats, owls
or guajolotes to be able to get into

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the houses, but they also showed
themselves as they were. That was more

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frightening, because the witches were awful. In addition to the scare, you

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ran the risk of being taken to
their hiding place and no one knew about

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you, as had happened with some
children in the village. Another thing he

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said to me that surprised me was
that that animal that I had seen was

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heard all over the town jumping through
the roofs of the houses and even in

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the dome of the church, but
no one knew what it was. Some

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claimed to have seen a shadow rushing
into the pantheon before dawn and no longer

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leaving until the next night. Several
people in the village had already searched for

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her within that place repeatedly day and
night, but as much as they were

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trying to find her, she did
not appear. For the same reason,

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they were said to be inventions of
people. Without thinking about it, we

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agreed to investigate. I asked her
to discreetly ask her mom how we could

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scare off a witch. I would
also ask at my house and then we

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' d talk to each other to
find out what we were going to do.

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When I asked my mom, she
asked me a lot of questions.

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In the end she told me that
she used salt and shears open in the

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form of a cross, but there
were other things like herbs, rough or

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rosemary. Finally, he warned me
not to mess with that because witches weren

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' t a game. Two days
later, my friend and I talked about

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what we had been able to investigate. Some of the neighbors who claimed that

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what was going on at night were
witches, had put protection in their homes,

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put herbs in the doors and windows, as my mother told me,

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others who had supposedly consulted with the
village shaman, had nailed wild boar legs

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as a protective amulet, among other
things. The next night we' re

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being brave and not wearing any protection. We went out without them noticing in

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our houses. We walk the deserted
streets of the village. We looked everywhere

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listening to our footsteps. It was
the first time I' d ever looked

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at the town in the dark at
night, it really looked like another.

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So we continued for several minutes listening
to the barking of dogs in the distance

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and some other noise of no importance. According to our plan, it was

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to hide near the pantheon first to
know that if it was true that that

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guajolote would get in there. After
we check that out, we could find

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his hiding place when it' s
daylight. That way we wouldn' t

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be in any danger. That was
all when we arrived at the main square,

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which was not far from my house
we heard how the branches of the

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trees moved, but they did so
in an unusual way. My friend stopped

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me by holding my arm. He
signaled me to keep it quiet and so

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I did. I realized there was
that ugly smell. I don' t

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know why I looked up and to
my surprise, there was that animal.

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It was a guajolote, but not
a normal one. It was huge.

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His feathers were totally dark. We
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His eyes looked like two black wells. The scariest thing was when his laughter

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was heard resounding at night. It
made it so ugly that it made my

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skin stand up for the first few
seconds. Yeah, I got scared I

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was about to run, but I
got over it all of a sudden.

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That animal jumped into another tree causing
many leaves to fall with its flutter.

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My friend and I ran to follow
him. Sometimes we were lost between the

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branches, but we found him again. So it was from tree to tree

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until there came a point that we
no longer saw everything remaining silent. We

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used it for a long time,
we looked for it until we got tired

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and nothing that smell had already been
like saado. That night we returned to

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our homes very sure that he was
only an animal because if he was a

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witch he would have turned to attack
us. Contrary to that, he had

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been afraid to flee from us.
At least from me, the fear got

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away from me. The next day
there was a rumor that some villagers had

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already seen the guajolote, but they
were telling a terrible thing. That animal

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had become a horrible woman with a
laugh. In addition, they claimed that

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before getting into the pantheon, some
farm animals had been eaten. That,

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as in the village, caused concern
in my house. More than ever.

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My mom did everything people said to
her so as to feel protected, from

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turning the broom upside down to watering
salt at the entrance to the house.

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From that night on, the presence
of that huge animal was more frequent,

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at least near my house. Cha
girl. Sometimes I saw him standing in

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the yard, staring for hours at
my room without moving. I figured he

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was trying to hypnotize me, but
that' s all. She never became

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a woman or anything. That'
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was really a witch. On one
occasion I was shocked because the guajolote went

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to peck at the window in my
room. I remember when I woke up

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from a jump when I looked up, it got lost in the dark.

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I had no doubt that it was
the same animal that ever dared to get

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closer. We agreed again my friend
and I so that the next night we

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would try again to see that gujolot
get into the pantheon. Maybe it would

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be 4: 00 in the morning
when we walked the lonely streets of town.

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On that occasion there was more silence. Looking towards the houses, we

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found that many of them, if
they had some kind of protection, had

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put some herbs or buckets of water
and even mirrors. Seeing that made us

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think that animal was a witch.
We didn' t even stop. We

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arrived at the square, there was
nothing heard or heard. If only the

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whistling of the wind that had let
go. We looked in the trees,

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in the houses nearby there was nothing. We persected ourselves as we passed in

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front of the church and continued along
as far as the houses ended. We

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walked a little longer, almost on
the mountain. The darkness was heavier.

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We stopped for a moment and thought
we' d come back when a sound

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was heard. It was a flapping
we were looking towards the unpopulated. Suddenly

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something came out of the bush.
We could only see a large shadow that

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headed towards the square. We went
that way, turned towards the roofs,

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looked in the darkest places, wanting
to find him. We came to the

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square to look through the trees for
something. At that point, he made

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me think if he showed up in
front of us, what we were going

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to do. We had no guns
or anything to catch him with. The

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best thing was to go back,
but my friend told me that the guajolote

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was standing high on the roof of
the church and he saw us seeing it

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so clearly. It made me feel
a chill to walk. My body could

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not move me was paralyzed by fear. I realized it was a mistake to

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walk alone at that time of dawn
knowing that in reality that was a witch

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and could attack us. When he
made the attempt to throw himself at us

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we shouted for help to the neighbors
who alerted by the noise left their homes

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Seeing the size of the guajolote,
he also got scared and began to pray

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to him to throw things to scare
him away. The guajolote moved from one

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side to the other no matter what
they threw at it. They didn'

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t go as far as he was. Then he started making a rather strange

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sound that made more people come out
of all those people. One of them,

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an elder named Don Pedro, who
was the church’ s sacristan,

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ran home. He soon returned with
a bouquet of herbs with a strong smell,

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as well as a white wooden cross. He lifted up the cross while

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reciting some prayers. The laughter of
the guajolote became more intense as if he

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mocked everyone. Suddenly, that guajolote
began to transform its feathers slowly dislodged.

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His body began to twist and change
shape. I remember I didn' t

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want to see any more, but
I heard everyone say that what had been

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a huge black bird was now becoming
a human figure. I turned again for

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the expressions that made the transformation It
was horrifying. Her skin was stretching,

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her bones were struggling to crack as
she took the form of a scary looking

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woman. His face was a mask
of evil, with sunken eyes, a

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disfigured smile showing his teeth. His
long, dirty hair fell on his shoulders.

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While some ladies prayed Don Pedro to
the cross as high as he could

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and recited the prayers more strongly.
The woman or whatever that was let go

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of one last awful scream before she
disappeared, jumping in the shadows. We

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were silent for a few seconds,
thinking about what had happened. We all

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knew something supernatural had happened. That
night. Some people accompanied us back to

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our homes. They didn' t
even ask us what we were doing alone

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at those hours. Since then,
knowing that what was around the village if

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it was a witch, protective measures
began to be taken. The news ran.

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We put rustic branches on the doors
and windows. The cross of Don

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Pedro was blessed by the father.
Then placed in the square, that woman

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was called the guajolota. The following
nights were disturbing because that thing or creature.

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Nothing else was around our house.
Many in the village saw her and

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even at the same time that we
came to think that she was not only

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one witch. During the day people
tried to make their life normal. At

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night it was something else. My
house was barely down in the afternoon and

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we were already being asked to go
in to avoid any encounter with that animal.

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What my mom couldn' t imagine
was that in the early morning I

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was walking out the window trying to
find out where the guajolota was hiding.

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Some nights later, perhaps we had
already been scared, because my friend and

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I tried for the third time,
Only now, not to expose ourselves too

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much, we find ourselves at about
five thirty in the morning, almost to

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dawn without stopping anywhere, we went
straight to the pantheon that was outside the

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town. We hid between the branches
of a large, almost dry tree to

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see if we saw anything. That
night happened. We were a few meters

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from the door when we saw that
something like a black ball fell into the

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pantheon between the graves, we didn' t even think of going to see.

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We ran to our homes knowing that
everything was true. I came to

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my house scared for that so I
thought we were doing wrong by risking without

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necessity. That' s why I
decided to tell my friend that we'

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d better leave him alone. Nothing. We wanted to know when I spoke

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to him the next day, convinced
me to keep saying that this would be

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the last thing we would do.
I thought about it a lot, but

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he agreed. About two o'
clock in the afternoon, we went back

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to the pantheon to see what we
found. When we entered, the pantheoner

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stopped us. He asked us what
we were doing, to which my friend

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replied that we were going to visit
the tomb of his grandmother. He let

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us through, but he wouldn'
t take his eyes off us. We

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rushed to search all over the pantheon, a well, an open tomb,

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a hollow trunk, something where we
could hide an animal as big as that.

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For over an hour we walked through
the graves without finding anything. We

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looked through the trees in the fence
to see if there was a hole where

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it could get out. There really
was nothing. When we were leaving,

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the pantheoner' s wife stopped us. He questioned our visit and let us

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know what was following us. He
asked us if we found what we were

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looking for. We didn' t
know what to answer He threatened us by

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saying that what he was looking for
was what we could find and in bad

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words, he ran us. Before
we go. That woman became known to

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me dressed in black, just as
she was. It reminded me of the

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witch. That made me think that' s why no one found the guajolota.

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I wasn' t in any well. Apparently, that witch was the

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wife of the pantheon keeper. I
tried to hide my nervousness by bending my

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head so that I wouldn' t
see my eyes. That woman walked behind

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us until we left the pantheon were
not my nerves. The whole place had

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that smell that there was for the
hottest nights already in my house. After

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thinking about it a lot, I
told my mom what we' d seen.

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After scolding me for what I had
done and for putting myself in danger,

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she told me she already knew.
Some of the people knew. The

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pantheoner' s wife was a witch, but she never messed with anyone.

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The same people were going to consult
her because she was very good at helping.

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I was over ten years old living
there, only apparently something had happened

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weeks ago, because I no longer
received anyone. It was believed that he

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had made a pact with the devil
and could now be transformed into different animals.

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They always suspected she was the one
who was walking around the village at

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night. No one could tell.
From that day on, they sealed the

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window in my room so I wouldn' t get out. I was grounded

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for like a month without going anywhere
after school, less at night. During

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that time I knew from talks that
my parents had that the pantheoner and his

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wife had left town, as there
were already many evils that I did.

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Many people went to the pantheon to
ask them to leave in a good way

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and so they did. Other people
took care of the pantheon what they found

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in the house. My mom wouldn' t tell me at the time.

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Many years later, he knew that
they had all sorts of bones, some

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animals, some not. In addition
to many other horrible things. The last

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time I heard about that animal was
one night months later. I identified it

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by the smell, also by that
strange laughter that I had on my way

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around the house. Maybe looking for
where to go for almost an hour,

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but the doors and windows were still
with that protection. That' s why

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he couldn' t do it.
After that night he didn' t show

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up anymore. My fear went on
for a while. I ended up leaving

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it behind. Now that I remember
all that, I don' t need

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to be told that I was very
reckless to go out looking for that witch.

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I know that from the animal'
s voice. My name is Maria.

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I was born in a place called
Estación Bocas or Hacienda de Bocas,

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in San Luis, Potosí, Mexico. There in a thousand nine hundred and

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fifty, in a town near to
mouths. My grandmother used to live.

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I never forget those times when to
go to visit her we did not get

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on the passenger train that passed through
villages and rancheries. I' d be

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about thirteen years old by now.
Usually we traveled by day because at night

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the journey was truly dark. I
remember some sections of the train and that

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we knew accidents had happened, no
matter whether it was day or night,

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it felt kind of strange. It
was believed in those times that the spirits

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of the deceased people climbed into the
wagons for a few kilometers then disappeared,

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leaving a rare sensation. The train
was always full of passengers. For the

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same reason, it not only transported
people, it also carried and brought all

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kinds of vibrates. That' s
why it was impossible to travel with some

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protection. Whatever it was. The
many people who had to travel on the

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train will remember that. My grandmother
was telling us never to panic by the

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windows of the train after ten o' clock at night, because we could

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see a witch or, worse,
they could see us. It was well

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known to the people of that region
that the witches followed the wagons walking down

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the roof and peeking out the windows, they said, looking for the little

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children. Some of those people claimed
to have seen them described them so ugly

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that they could scare anyone. We
weren' t so scared. We were

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used to dealing with those things,
walking in the dark, but that'

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s always with caution. Sometimes we
would visit other close relatives in ranches called

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wonders, and we would walk back
at night on lonely paths of land.

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We were about twenty- five minutes
on our way. While we were heading

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to the ranch, we were going
through a stretch that had a bad vibe.

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There we talked very little. We
rushed through trying not to make noise,

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because many things were told along those
paths, all related to apparitions and

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witches. On more than one occasion
I had that feeling that someone is following

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you. It gave me a chill. I know the others were sorry,

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too, because we all turned around
everywhere. We heard some disturbing gossips coming

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out of the middle of the mountain. We never stopped. When we finally

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got to our house, we were
persing each other. My mom would sweep

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us away with some herbs, like
rough and rosemary, to remove any bad

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vibes that we would have picked up
an occasion that we went to visit my

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grandmother, we started to get weird
things going since we got on the train.

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He felt a great anxiety to get
to his people and know that he

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was well. It had been two
weeks since we last visited her. When

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we were at the station on more
than one occasion, I thought I saw

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her among the people, She seemed
to hide from us. Then I'

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d lose my sight of her.
That' s how it happened to me

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several times thinking maybe something was wrong
with him. We walked the house fast.

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It wasn' t far from the
station. When we arrived, she

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was locked in her house. We
thought he wasn' t there. That

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was so weird,' cause I
never went anywhere. After knocking on the

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door insistently he opened us up and
told us to go in quickly. When

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we did, at least, I
felt a very ugly feeling as if something

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evil was waiting inside us we entered
and realized that the house smelled a lot

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like locked up. We wanted to
greet her, hug her as usual,

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but she, putting her finger in
her mouth, asked us to remain silent.

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We just looked at her without knowing
what was going on. My grandmother

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was an old person who rarely played
and saw her like this. Acting that

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way was pretty weird. After a
few seconds, he locked the door.

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He told us quietly to listen.
I confess that at first I couldn'

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t hear anything strange as hard as
I tried. On that occasion I went

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with three older cousins who were already
worried. They asked him what was going

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on. My grandmother asked us to
pay attention. Then he pointed his finger

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at us and told us to listen
well to what one of his cotorros was

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saying. When I paid attention to
him, I got scared because the cotorter

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said our names and hadn' t
even seen us coming. Besides, he

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spoke in bad words. The ugliest
thing was to hear him say we'

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d get the hell out of his
house. With that particular voice that they

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don' t have, he repeated
over and over again that we left that

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he didn' t want us there. Then he started talking to us by

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our names, asking us to go
out and see him and bring him something

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to eat, because Grandma was starving
him. The gossip my grandmother had was

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still talking about just hearing him express
himself as a person already had us all

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scared. Also, because she sometimes
spoke with a strange voice, my grandmother

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asked us not to listen to her
because outside the cotorro, there were some

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black birds that spoke and laughed as
if they were people. Listening to all

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those things already made us very nervous. I remember I kept looking at my

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grandmother thinking that maybe she was sick
or hallucinating, but then I heard the

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crotch screaming those things and giving me
the chills. I didn' t know

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what to think anymore, because a
thing like that had never happened before.

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I remember one of my cousins,
the biggest, came out the window.

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He told us that my grandmother'
s cat, which we all knew,

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was staring at the house. He
taught the fangs as if there was something

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inside that displeased him. After a
few minutes, my grandmother calmed down a

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little bit and asked us to sit
down and tell us what was going on

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very vaguely. I remember it was
a cloudy day in November. For the

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same reason, the house felt very
cold and darker than usual. Still turning

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out, he told us that a
week ago a witch had tried to get

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into a house. The lady cried
for help. All the neighbors came out,

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including my grandmother. When they arrived
they saw strange things happen with the

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animals. Some were trying to get
out of their cages, others were running

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all over the yard and dogs were
howling in addition to a woman above the

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roof. Realizing what was involved,
some ran home out of fear, but

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my grandmother did not, knowing that
what that woman wanted was to steal a

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child Among some ladies they managed to
scare her away by making a lot of

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noise, giving her the broom and
praying aloud. When the witch disappeared,

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all the animals calmed down. Nights
later, when my grandmother was asleep,

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she heard that the animals were disturbed
and rose to see as far as her

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eyesight allowed. He looked in the
courtyard that was in the middle of the

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construction. That night, in particular, he had forgotten to put in the

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cotorro that began to scream. He
sounded so scared. My grandmother was going

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out for him thinking that some cat
or tlacuache wanted to eat him, but

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in that she looked at him passing
a shadow from side to side. My

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grandmother was in no way a fearsome
woman, yet very serious. He assured

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us that his feet were not looked
at in that shadow, but he also

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did not touch the ground. She
knew it was about the witch, because

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other neighbors had already told her that
that woman was lurking around the houses of

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the women who had attacked her.
Because he couldn' t get into the

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houses, he used to scare the
animals away from the neighbors themselves. I

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knew I shouldn' t go out
because witches were very dangerous bearers of evils

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and diseases. Ignoring all that,
I was going to open the door at

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the time. Inside the house it
got much colder and it was heard trying

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to open the two doors at the
same time. Being my grandmother alone and

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already old, all she ever thought
of doing was opening the kitchen window and

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running to that woman screaming at her
bad words. While throwing salt at her,

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she told us that the witch saw
her again was that she realized how

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awful it was when she began to
describe it to us. I remember covering

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my ears because I didn' t
want to imagine it and that it stayed

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in my imagination forever after running it, everything was quiet for a long time.

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That night worked because that woman looked
no more and the animals calmed down,

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but the next night she reappeared in
the early morning. My grandmother felt

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restless. That' s why he
got up this time. The witch stood

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in the middle of the courtyard and
kept looking to the room where she was.

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Then that woman started talking, only
she did it through the animals.

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First, my grandmother heard an unknown
voice inside the house calling her by her

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name. Surprised. He looked very
hard without finding anyone. I thought I

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might be a ghost, because she
believed in those things a lot. Then

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he realized that it was something much
more sinister who spoke hidden in the darkness

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was the cat was so frightened that
he grabbed the broom and beat him out

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more scared. I looked at that
woman who was still standing in the middle

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of the courtyard without moving, but
with a strange glow in her eyes.

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Minutes later, the cotorro began shouting
concrete phrases. Not only did he repeat

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his usual words with courage. I
was threatening her for running it the night

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before. He shouted that from that
day on, the house belonged to him.

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Even though it was her spoiled crotch, she grabbed the cage, vented

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it out of the house and passing
through all the other birds. Despite the

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fear he was, he was strong
because he wasn' t going to run

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away leaving all that night. He
spent his time praying, but also listening

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to his animals. At dawn,
at least four birds arrived and stood above

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the ceiling. They started to laugh
for hours. For the next day,

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my grandmother was listening to all that. She didn' t dare go out

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to ask for help, thinking that
witch would take the time to get in

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and leave her outside. That'
s how it was until it got dark

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again. When the house was in
the dark, the cotorro behaved more strangely,

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still paddling my grandmother when she prayed
and gnawed and even yelled rudely.

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Despite having all the doors and windows
closed, I felt a presence coming in

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and out. In addition, he
could hear a woman' s voice all

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over the house claiming her as his
property. My grandmother, thinking it was

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the devil' s thing. He
sprinkled everything with holy water, but the

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demonstrations did not stop, at least
not completely. Since then, she'

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s been locked up. I had
three days already. So, maybe we

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were scared to hear all that,
too, but we had to support my

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grandmother. A little later we went
out to bring him something to eat because

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he did not encourage himself to eat
a chicken of his own for fear that

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they were infected with evil. He
didn' t even dare go out in

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the yard. When we left,
some of his neighbors asked us about my

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grandmother because they told us they were
looking at a shadow walking down the roof.

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Besides, they also heard the cotorro
scream and what he said was not

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normal. Broadly speaking, we told
them what was happening, because we were

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in a hurry. One of them
suggested that we take my grandmother because if

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00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:49.519
we left her alone, she was
in great danger, because apparently that witch

412
00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:53.440
had a lot of courage and if
I attacked her at night, no one

413
00:33:53.480 --> 00:33:59.640
could defend her. That night we
didn' t sleep. We used to

414
00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:02.960
see her trying to convince my grandmother
to get out of there. Then another

415
00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:07.760
day, we' d get help
telling us how to get the witch out

416
00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:13.280
and she could come back. As
we talked, the cotorro laughed and yelled

417
00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:16.320
at us that he was listening to
us. It would be about 3:

418
00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:22.079
30 a m when they started knocking
on the door, those simple blows that

419
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:28.000
during the day would mean nothing at
those hours of the morning. They sounded

420
00:34:28.159 --> 00:34:31.960
terrifying and they had us freaked out
knowing who was playing was a witch.

421
00:34:32.519 --> 00:34:37.159
My grandmother was worried, especially about
me, because she was the youngest.

422
00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:43.039
I remember he grabbed some salt and
rubbed his hands and grabbed my head.

423
00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:47.480
According to her, that served to
keep the witch from smelling me. Then

424
00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:52.239
he covered me like this in a
slow and desperate way. They spent the

425
00:34:52.400 --> 00:35:00.760
minutes up to three more times playing
again. I remember we were in the

426
00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:04.280
dark praying softly so that he wouldn' t listen to us. We couldn

427
00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:07.960
' t even go to the bathroom
hiding there. He spent his time trying

428
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:13.480
to put up with our fears,
which were growing higher and higher above the

429
00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:17.199
ceiling. We heard many birds walking
without knowing what they were, but it

430
00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:22.760
was horrible. My grandmother was walking
around all over the house. That made

431
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:29.039
us more and more scared. So
we spent the most terrifying night I remember

432
00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:34.360
listening to the animals and feeling the
presence of someone beside us, only we

433
00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:39.800
couldn' t see him at dawn, we convinced my grandmother to leave for

434
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:45.119
our house. Ten o' clock
in the morning. We took a passing

435
00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:51.039
train. During the tour we were
thinking about how to do it to get

436
00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:55.320
the house back, because it was
evident that it now belonged to the witch

437
00:35:55.400 --> 00:35:59.440
or at least she was in there. We weren' t going to let

438
00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:04.440
my grandmother live in that place where
even the animals were possessed by that woman

439
00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:07.840
' s evil. When we got
to Bocas, we talked to my mom

440
00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:14.000
seriously that I couldn' t believe
it, but I agreed we needed help.

441
00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:19.320
At that time it was rumored that
a lady from there from the ranch

442
00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:24.079
practiced witchcraft and was badly seen by
all of us had to turn to her

443
00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:28.280
if she was right now. Today
Bocas is a small place. In those

444
00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:31.440
years it was more so. For
the same reason all the people knew each

445
00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:36.519
other at least in sight with that
one, Lady the Witch. It was

446
00:36:36.559 --> 00:36:40.800
no exception. I met my mom
and even my grandmother. We went and

447
00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:45.920
told him what was going on.
I never forget the look on his face.

448
00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:51.719
I had an expression of amazement.
Maybe he was so worried that he

449
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:55.480
just told us what we had to
do to date. I still think that

450
00:36:55.760 --> 00:37:00.960
even as a witch, she was
afraid to go to my grandmother' s

451
00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:04.760
house after a few days already prepared
with the things we needed to take.

452
00:37:05.320 --> 00:37:07.559
We went four o' clock to
my grandmother' s village. My mom

453
00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:13.519
wanted to join us, but the
mouth witch was very clear when she said

454
00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:16.199
it wasn' t wise for someone
else to do it. I can'

455
00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:21.039
t deny that during all the length
of the trip, we were aware of

456
00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:25.199
concern and fear. When we arrived
the house was silent. I don'

457
00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:30.599
t know if it' s okay
to put it that way, but it

458
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:35.360
was a weird quietness that told us
something had happened inside. We checked the

459
00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:40.400
interior of the house first. We
found dirt tracks everywhere. Someone walked inside

460
00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:46.480
with barefoot feet. Apparently he was
a big, pretty thin person to the

461
00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:52.239
extent that those footprints didn' t
look human. Another thing we found was

462
00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:58.840
many insects, dead, ants and
small cockroaches, as well as other animals.

463
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:02.760
Other than that, the whole house
smelled strange as if it had many

464
00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:07.840
years in abandonment. When they looked
out into the courtyard, all the animals

465
00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:12.280
were apparently dead. We didn'
t even go out and check. We

466
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:15.920
rushed to do what the witch told
us. We burned some herbs until we

467
00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:21.440
flooded the whole house with a penetrating
smoke and a strong smell. A mixture

468
00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:25.039
of garlic and salt and water was
also made and water was watered everywhere,

469
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:31.840
in addition to many prayers. When
we finished we closed well with lock and

470
00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:37.079
returned to Bocas, we visited the
witch again to tell us what else we

471
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:40.760
would have to do. That day
he spoke only to my eldest cousin to

472
00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:45.519
give him the instructions. Three days
later we went back to my grandmother'

473
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:49.800
s house. This time my mom
did come with us. When we got

474
00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:52.159
in, the thing was different.
Even though everything was closed, just as

475
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:59.320
we had left it, all things
were moved from its place. We checked

476
00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:02.559
that it wasn' t a robbery, because there was nothing missing all over

477
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:07.000
the house. There were dead animals, birds and black hens that weren'

478
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:13.199
t my grandmother' s. The
smell was unbearable. As my cousin wanted

479
00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:16.559
to endure all that, he drew
some symbols on the floors of the three

480
00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:20.719
- quarters of the house and one
more on the front door. On the

481
00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:25.280
outside my mom got scared. That' s where we left off and back

482
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:30.960
again. After three days, we
prayed a lot while cleaning up. When

483
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:35.719
we went out into the yard ready
to clean, there were no animals,

484
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:39.559
no cotorros, no chickens, dogs
and cats. Everything was gone. In

485
00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:45.880
addition, the walls and plants were
full of cobwebs. We cleaned everything up,

486
00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:50.199
left as if nothing had happened.
But my grandmother didn' t want

487
00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:54.360
to stay there anymore because she still
felt a presence. Even though he didn

488
00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:59.960
' t say anything. It was
obvious that he was afraid from that moment

489
00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:05.320
on to decide to go live with
us by mouth. Very rarely did we

490
00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:09.400
return to that town because there were
all my grandmother' s belongings. Even

491
00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:15.000
though we put the house for sale
no one wanted to buy it until eventually

492
00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:19.559
she fell alone as an old woman. We never knew anything strange was being

493
00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:25.079
looked at or heard. Neighbors never
complained about anything. People simply knew what

494
00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:31.480
had happened there and nobody loved her. Many years later, my grandmother died.

495
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:37.079
None of my cousins wanted to claim
that land. Not even my mom.

496
00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:40.559
Now I' m an older person. Many years ago I was married

497
00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:44.880
and did not live in Bocas,
not even in the state of San Luis

498
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:47.639
Potosí, about one thousand nine hundred
ninety- five. It was the last

499
00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:52.280
time I got on a passenger train
because they took it off. I traveled

500
00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:57.559
again Laredo to Bocas and I didn' t imagine it was the last time

501
00:40:57.679 --> 00:41:00.519
I would travel by train. I
was invaded by all the memories of when

502
00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:06.559
I was going to visit my grandmother, All the movement that was in those

503
00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:09.679
old villages stopped along with the train
and today, after so many years,

504
00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:15.880
Bocas Station has not even a thousand
inhabitants, but its streets and its people

505
00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:30.280
tell old stories like this witch in
my dreams. The experience I want to

506
00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:35.760
share happened to me about twenty years
ago, but a little more happened to

507
00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:39.079
me once we visited a friend of
my mom' s in a town in

508
00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:44.440
the state of Veracruz very close to
my land, Tabasco. My name is

509
00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:47.800
Sara. At that time I had
eight years. I remember she was very

510
00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:53.119
naive. Everything they told me was
taken as true. Whether it was related

511
00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:57.920
to people or to things as strange
as the dead were returning from beyond,

512
00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:04.000
or that witches were flying tales at
night that were very common in those places.

513
00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:08.239
My mom had a friend named Maria, in a village far from ours.

514
00:42:09.719 --> 00:42:15.440
No matter what, we visited her
once or twice a year. When

515
00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:21.239
we were going, we stayed at
his house for a few days and used

516
00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:24.079
to do some shopping. The lady
had two little daughters with whom I had

517
00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:29.360
to live together. The biggest one, called Blanca, was nine years old.

518
00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:34.880
Strangely enough, she told me a
lot of terrible things that I always

519
00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:37.800
believed to be true. I was
talking with incredible security. Among all those

520
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:44.199
things she told me that inside her
dreams lived a witch. She was a

521
00:42:44.239 --> 00:42:50.360
very old woman who had big fangs
and long ears appeared in her dreams to

522
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:53.480
do evil to her. Besides,
I was telling her such ugly things that

523
00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:58.880
made her cry. That witch had
a name, her name was Airam.

524
00:42:58.920 --> 00:43:02.400
The first time he ever dreamed of
it, he really freaked out, only

525
00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:05.880
he didn' t give it that
much importance. His mom told him it

526
00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:09.360
was a nightmare, but things didn' t stop there. Every night,

527
00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:15.320
the witch appeared in her dream chasing
her screaming in a dreadful way. I

528
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:20.519
even asked her twice if her mom
knew about it. He said yes,

529
00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:24.039
but he didn' t believe him. Besides, I scolded her every time

530
00:43:24.440 --> 00:43:29.360
I told her, she dreamed of
that horrible woman. Even with my innocence

531
00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:32.800
of an eight- year- old
girl, I told her not to be

532
00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:37.920
afraid because they were dreams alone and
nothing could do to her. But to

533
00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:43.079
convince me that what he was telling
me was true, he would lift his

534
00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:46.599
blouse. He showed me scratches and
bruises that woman made him. While she

535
00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:51.760
slept on her back, chest,
arms and legs, she had the traces

536
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:58.280
of that old woman' s evil. Whenever I woke up, I had

537
00:43:58.280 --> 00:44:02.039
a new wound. All the scars, each of them represented a terrible nightmare.

538
00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:07.880
I never told them, but I
remember having a lot of marks on

539
00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:10.880
her skin, because she was almost
a year old living that situation. They

540
00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:15.320
weren' t bleeding wounds. Some
were hardly clear that they did not.

541
00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:20.840
That' s why they stopped making
me feel chills. Just imagine all the

542
00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:24.400
terror that Blanca was going through when
she was nine years old alone and nobody

543
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:29.559
believed her the only time I told
my mom what was going on with her.

544
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:35.880
She told me not to listen to
her because Maria, her friend complained

545
00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:39.320
a lot about her. Maybe she
was a liar and a bad cover for

546
00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:42.960
the kid, that' s why
she was punished. Maybe she wanted to

547
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:46.119
make me understand that her mom was
hitting her, but at the time she

548
00:44:46.159 --> 00:44:49.880
didn' t understand it that way. What I did feel was that my

549
00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:54.000
mom didn' t listen to me
either, but it was enough to talk

550
00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:58.000
to Blanca for a few minutes to
convince me that the witch did exist.

551
00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:04.000
I described her tall black skin,
very wrinkled, with huge eyes without eyelids.

552
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:08.239
The most terrible thing about her was
her voice and her horrible laughter that

553
00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:15.159
resounded into her head. Sometimes,
Blanca laughed by imitating that woman. It

554
00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:20.360
made her so ugly that I was
shaking when we talked about it, she

555
00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:25.039
told me she couldn' t stand
it anymore, but the witch didn'

556
00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:30.159
t want to leave her because she
had to get into someone else and find

557
00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:32.079
another innocent girl who believed in her. It was very difficult. Her seven

558
00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:36.920
- year- old sister, named
Esther, was just looking at us scared.

559
00:45:37.119 --> 00:45:42.280
When I heard the word witch one
day I asked her if she didn

560
00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:44.360
' t have nightmares she didn'
t even know what it was. I

561
00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:47.800
was glad that the same thing didn' t happen to Blanca at the time.

562
00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:52.719
I hadn' t experienced such an
ugly thing as that either. When

563
00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:58.119
it was time to sleep, all
three of us slept together and prayed what

564
00:45:58.159 --> 00:46:02.199
little they had taught us in our
homes. I remember that in my prayers

565
00:46:02.280 --> 00:46:08.400
I innocently asked that witch to leave
my friend alone and by the way let

566
00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:14.119
us sleep because one night before,
on more than one occasion, they took

567
00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:21.199
away our blankets. We looked,
but there was no one around us that

568
00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:23.960
night it all happened really weird.
I don' t know exactly what hours

569
00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:29.840
it was. I just remember I
woke up because the blankets slipped all the

570
00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:34.719
way down the side of our feet. We covered up again thinking maybe I

571
00:46:34.760 --> 00:46:38.519
' d gained his weight. It
hadn' t been long before something clearly

572
00:46:39.039 --> 00:46:45.039
happened again Something was pulling them from
below. On that occasion we were all

573
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:51.199
awake. They also woke us up
once, stretching our hairs. We thought

574
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:55.400
it was a white joke, but
she always denied it. Another thing that

575
00:46:55.440 --> 00:47:00.840
seemed strange to me was that in
the morning, when we woke up,

576
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:07.000
Blanca was under the bed, sometimes
still asleep, sometimes already awake, but

577
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:09.360
very frightened. According to her,
she didn' t know how she got

578
00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:15.840
there. What she did remember was
that in her dreams the Witch chased her

579
00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:21.559
to reach her, dragging her down
a long dark corridor. After punishing her,

580
00:47:21.719 --> 00:47:25.000
I put her in a deep well
where she couldn' t get out

581
00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:30.119
for more effort than she did.
I only looked at the light when I

582
00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:32.639
woke up and in doing so I
had the traces of the injuries. Once

583
00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:37.800
we had visited them. I remember
my friend talking at night, having a

584
00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:43.519
lot of desperate moves, and trying
to scream as well in her sleep.

585
00:47:43.719 --> 00:47:49.119
I described places that I had never
imagined existed, besides other things like woods

586
00:47:49.239 --> 00:47:54.280
and dark alleys. When Blanca woke
up, she could describe it to us

587
00:47:55.079 --> 00:48:00.679
very well, because she assured us
that in those places she chased that woman

588
00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:05.840
every night. During the day we
forgot all that, ran, played and

589
00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:10.039
laughed like the little girls we were. We platicized on a lot of things.

590
00:48:10.599 --> 00:48:15.239
I can' t deny we had
a good time. But when the

591
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:20.239
night began, the atmosphere changed throughout
the house. You could feel a mystery.

592
00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:23.239
Blanca got so serious that I was
scared, so I was probably going

593
00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:30.719
to happen to her while we slept
peacefully. I always intended to ask Doña

594
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:36.480
Maria or my mom to help him, because I knew that was very dangerous,

595
00:48:36.800 --> 00:48:40.280
they didn' t seem to care. They were in a world very

596
00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:45.360
different from ours, always praying to
the saints and talking about other things.

597
00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:52.280
Before I fell asleep, I imagined
what my friend was suffering from being persecuted

598
00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:58.199
by such a dreadful woman and sometimes
I wished I could face that witch together

599
00:48:58.320 --> 00:49:01.320
so that she would already suffer us. She never told me, but I

600
00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:07.440
felt that she did know of my
intention to help her. One night he

601
00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:13.480
told me something that surprised me at
first. Then in the second, I

602
00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:16.840
was really scared. We went to
a place where we were alone. He

603
00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:22.199
assured me that witch wanted to know
my name. When I heard it,

604
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:27.480
I felt all the blood gone to
my heels. First I thought I was

605
00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:30.920
playing but I had a look I' d never seen in it. That

606
00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:34.840
' s why I knew what he
was telling me was true. I'

607
00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:39.880
m sure I was pale because Blanca
was looking at me scared feeling something terrible

608
00:49:39.920 --> 00:49:44.400
all over my body. I asked
him several times to please not tell him,

609
00:49:44.599 --> 00:49:51.159
because that woman was very scary to
me. For seconds we' ve

610
00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:53.760
been staring into our eyes without talking. After a while he told me something

611
00:49:53.840 --> 00:50:00.480
even more frightening. He assured me
that the witch was getting out of her

612
00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:05.199
dreams. I was walking all over
the house hiding between things. It was

613
00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:09.239
she who took away our blankets,
who woke us up by stretching our hairs

614
00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:14.159
at night. He was approaching the
bed and he didn' t use the

615
00:50:14.159 --> 00:50:17.039
smell of my fear. He liked
it. That' s why he wanted

616
00:50:17.159 --> 00:50:20.400
to meet me the way I always
believed him. First thing I wanted to

617
00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:23.719
do was run to tell my mom
I didn' t, thinking I probably

618
00:50:23.800 --> 00:50:28.360
wouldn' t believe it again.
Me. I agree that I was holding

619
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:32.719
my head trying to figure out what
we could do, because I didn'

620
00:50:32.760 --> 00:50:35.239
t want to see that witch either
in my dreams or in front of me.

621
00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:39.039
I had a weird feeling of being
unprotected. I asked Blanca not to

622
00:50:39.079 --> 00:50:45.320
let that woman near me. She
just smiled while looking at my friend.

623
00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:50.000
I walked away from her because I
didn' t know what else to say

624
00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:52.559
to her anymore. Blanca told me
not to tell my mom even then,

625
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:58.880
sneaking away from everything, I told
my mom just to look at me again.

626
00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:06.199
It was all that morning. We
went shopping all day long My friend

627
00:51:06.280 --> 00:51:08.480
didn' t talk to me.
When the afternoon began to fall, Blanca

628
00:51:08.760 --> 00:51:14.280
kept looking at me in a strange
way of the fear she felt. I

629
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:19.000
didn' t even have dinner that
night I asked my mom to sleep with

630
00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:22.000
her, but she refused. When
it was eleven we slept together, Blanca

631
00:51:22.039 --> 00:51:25.320
insisted on the same thing. I
asked her not to tell me about that

632
00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:30.440
woman anymore and I closed my eyes. I was more scared than ever.

633
00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:35.639
She was very restless. We wanted
to sleep with the spotlight on. Mrs

634
00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:42.000
Mary did not allow it in silence. I was crying, watching everywhere scared

635
00:51:42.440 --> 00:51:46.400
to death, hoping that soon the
night would pass and get rid of all

636
00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:52.760
that. I knew morning we'
d get out of there. That'

637
00:51:52.840 --> 00:51:55.599
s how time passed. I wouldn' t take my eyes off Blanca while

638
00:51:55.719 --> 00:52:00.239
she slept that night she snored and
I did give up. He shivered many

639
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:04.119
times. I don' t know
why. That night I took her very

640
00:52:04.119 --> 00:52:07.079
afraid, I no longer looked at
her as a helpless child. I figured

641
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:12.199
he wanted to scare me into smelling
the witch, getting out of it and

642
00:52:12.239 --> 00:52:15.840
getting into me. I have no
idea what hours it was. I remember

643
00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:21.719
Blanca woke me up when I opened
my eyes. He had it almost on

644
00:52:21.719 --> 00:52:24.280
him. We looked at each other
for a few seconds. Then he asked

645
00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:29.760
me quietly not to scream and asked
me if I would like to meet the

646
00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:35.000
witch. I moved my head to
say no, because I didn' t

647
00:52:35.039 --> 00:52:39.920
even get the words out of just
imagine it was already shaking with a tone

648
00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:43.559
of voice that I' ll never
forget. She came up to my ear

649
00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:47.719
and told me she' s here. I can' t describe in a

650
00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:52.840
few words what I felt at the
time. Blanca slowly moved away from me.

651
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:57.440
Then, while looking at me,
he raised his arm and with his

652
00:52:57.719 --> 00:53:01.760
finger, pointed towards the darkest corner
of the room, where we slept,

653
00:53:02.119 --> 00:53:06.079
overcoming all my fears. I raised
my head to my astonishment. With terror

654
00:53:06.400 --> 00:53:09.679
I looked at it as true.
There was a very tall black lump that

655
00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:14.039
didn' t move. I imagined
a lot of things. Maybe he wanted

656
00:53:14.119 --> 00:53:17.920
to scare me and put some black
sheets on a piece of furniture for what

657
00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:22.119
he would do. That wasn'
t logical. After a few moments that

658
00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:28.159
seemed eternal to me, that lump
moved. Then I wanted to scream,

659
00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:30.360
but I couldn' t. Blanca
told me not to be scared, that

660
00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:35.880
airam just wanted to meet me.
I felt so bad that I had a

661
00:53:35.920 --> 00:53:42.159
very marked difficulty breathing. A few
seconds later I saw that lump begin to

662
00:53:42.159 --> 00:53:47.599
approach us. If I could,
I' d jump out of bed and

663
00:53:47.679 --> 00:53:52.920
run out of the house, but
it was stuck. Only once did I

664
00:53:52.920 --> 00:53:58.320
turn to see Blanca, who didn' t seem scared when she was about

665
00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:00.960
a meter short to get to that
thing. It was no longer a lump,

666
00:54:00.719 --> 00:54:05.159
it was a silhouette that was giving
way to the figure of a woman.

667
00:54:05.679 --> 00:54:07.559
I didn' t have the strength
to close my eyes. That'

668
00:54:07.639 --> 00:54:13.079
s why I saw her was a
woman exactly like Blanca. I' ve

669
00:54:13.199 --> 00:54:16.880
always described it. The most impressive
thing was his eyes and his grim smile.

670
00:54:17.440 --> 00:54:22.199
That' s why I had no
doubt she was that witch. It

671
00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:28.719
seemed like many years, it was
totally wrinkled and his hands I could never

672
00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:32.800
forget were very skinny, plus quite
wrinkled. The sound of his voice made

673
00:54:32.880 --> 00:54:37.280
me shudder. He came so close
to me, I could smell his bad

674
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:43.000
breath. He looked at me carefully. Then he started smelling me with that

675
00:54:43.079 --> 00:54:46.840
horrible voice. He said my name
and smiled. He bowed to me almost

676
00:54:46.920 --> 00:54:52.920
until he touched me. Then he
disappeared out of nowhere like that. I

677
00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:57.639
looked white and smile too Then he
threw himself on the floor and got under

678
00:54:57.719 --> 00:55:01.719
the bed. Everything plunged into a
restless silence. I don' t even

679
00:55:01.760 --> 00:55:07.079
know how long I was terrified,
unable to scream, unable to move,

680
00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:10.280
imagining many things that could still happen
to me. I fell into bed,

681
00:55:10.480 --> 00:55:16.360
I felt as tired as if I
had taken a long walk. I got

682
00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:21.719
carried away because my eyes were closing. I didn' t know when I

683
00:55:21.840 --> 00:55:24.960
fell asleep. When I woke up, it was just me in bed.

684
00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:30.360
It was past 10: 00 in
the morning. Two hours later we were

685
00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:32.599
already on our way back to town. I didn' t say goodbye to

686
00:55:32.639 --> 00:55:37.360
Blanca or her sister. I was
still scared of what I had seen at

687
00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:42.079
night. I went all the way
thinking about how I was going to convince

688
00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:45.400
my mom not to go back to
that place anymore or at least that I

689
00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:52.679
didn' t accompany her to Mrs
Mary' s house at about eight o

690
00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:53.960
' clock at night we were in
our little village. At ten o'

691
00:55:54.000 --> 00:56:00.199
clock I went to sleep because I
felt tired. I remember I barely closed

692
00:56:00.320 --> 00:56:05.000
my eyes and saw the witch.
I wanted to get up, but I

693
00:56:05.079 --> 00:56:08.679
couldn' t scream. I tried
to run, but it was impossible for

694
00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:15.280
me to turn to see it was
she fell on me so surprisingly that I

695
00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:17.760
screamed so loudly that it made me
wake up. I was sitting in my

696
00:56:17.760 --> 00:56:22.559
bed. When my mom came to
see me I knew that I had had

697
00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:29.119
my first nightmare and it was precisely
with that woman, the witch I had

698
00:56:29.159 --> 00:56:32.360
seen at my friend' s house
was only the first of many. That

699
00:56:32.440 --> 00:56:37.480
night I didn' t sleep anymore, but at some point I had to.

700
00:56:37.239 --> 00:56:43.360
Maybe it was a mistake to wait
so long, because I got into

701
00:56:43.360 --> 00:56:45.840
my tired sleep. Then it was
possible for me to wake up. When

702
00:56:45.960 --> 00:56:52.119
I wanted to do it in the
dream, the witch told me to be

703
00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:55.639
happy because I had already left my
friend Blanca alone, as was my wish,

704
00:56:57.039 --> 00:57:00.480
only that now I would live with
me. That began to lose me

705
00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:05.599
unabatedly. That' s how the
nights went by without me noticing. I

706
00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:10.320
was already involved in terrible nightmares that
were getting ugly. I was eight,

707
00:57:10.679 --> 00:57:15.079
I didn' t know what to
do. When my mom looked at me

708
00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:19.639
badly, she started asking among her
friends who she could take me to help

709
00:57:19.639 --> 00:57:25.199
me. He was recommended by some
curander ladies, who turned out to be

710
00:57:25.320 --> 00:57:29.840
scams that only took his money and
I was still the same or worse.

711
00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:34.800
In the meantime, nights were terrible
for me. That woman was chasing me

712
00:57:34.840 --> 00:57:39.000
in my nightmares and getting a little
closer to me. When I woke up,

713
00:57:39.440 --> 00:57:45.039
I felt exhausted and already confused reality
with dreams. I knew one night

714
00:57:45.440 --> 00:57:52.119
that Witch was gonna catch up with
me about the two weeks I started with

715
00:57:52.159 --> 00:57:57.400
those nightmares. That night the Witch
came after chasing me through dark places,

716
00:57:57.599 --> 00:58:00.840
finally caught up with me and scratched
my back. It was as hot as

717
00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:07.599
ever, but this time I was
in pain. After waking up in the

718
00:58:07.639 --> 00:58:10.559
middle of the morning, as my
burning was not taken away, my mom

719
00:58:10.599 --> 00:58:14.760
looked at me and horribly told me
she was wearing a mark. At that

720
00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:20.400
point I remembered Blanca. I figured
it would happen just like her and I

721
00:58:20.480 --> 00:58:23.840
cried. My mom didn' t
let herself be beaten. He continued to

722
00:58:24.039 --> 00:58:29.119
seek help until in another town he
gave with gift cecilio who was an old

723
00:58:29.239 --> 00:58:32.400
witch or shaman. We had to
go up to three times because of how

724
00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:37.679
strange that was. It wasn'
t just a scare or a possession.

725
00:58:37.239 --> 00:58:43.079
The first time I was in front
of him he asked me a lot of

726
00:58:43.159 --> 00:58:46.039
questions, first about white, then
about that witch. It was the first

727
00:58:46.119 --> 00:58:50.800
time I' d heard anything like
that. Don Cecilio assured us that the

728
00:58:50.920 --> 00:58:54.639
witch was real. She told me, looking into my eyes that she was

729
00:58:54.719 --> 00:58:59.599
feeding on my fear. She told
my mom that I had an imbalance between

730
00:58:59.639 --> 00:59:02.239
her, the soul and the body. That' s why I had to

731
00:59:02.320 --> 00:59:07.480
get scared first. That time she
swept me away with some herbs to scare

732
00:59:07.480 --> 00:59:12.159
me. When he finished he told
us that that night I was scared,

733
00:59:12.320 --> 00:59:16.400
I had gone out of spirit and
to get it back we would have to

734
00:59:16.519 --> 00:59:19.360
go back to my mom' s
friend' s house to do a ritual.

735
00:59:19.880 --> 00:59:22.639
Listening to that made me feel bad. I didn' t want to

736
00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:25.920
go back to that house, but
I had no choice. That' s

737
00:59:27.440 --> 00:59:31.079
how we did it because I couldn' t take nightmares anymore. When we

738
00:59:31.119 --> 00:59:36.159
arrived at Mrs Maria' s house, my mom asked her permission to stay

739
00:59:36.239 --> 00:59:38.960
one night and do a ritual.
At first he didn' t like the

740
00:59:38.960 --> 00:59:45.199
idea. Then he agreed white.
He looked at me with anger and even

741
00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:47.880
seemed to realize what we were going
to do. He never spoke to me,

742
00:59:49.280 --> 00:59:52.320
not even to greet me, but
at about eleven o' clock we

743
00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:55.559
did what the shaman told us.
My mom wore the same dress I was

744
00:59:55.639 --> 00:59:59.880
wearing that night. Before I went
to sleep, I put it or I

745
00:59:59.920 --> 01:00:05.199
have or. He prayed many prayers
while persing me with the light out.

746
01:00:05.480 --> 01:00:09.199
He took a plant and whipped it
three times against the ground to gather my

747
01:00:09.199 --> 01:00:14.960
spirit. After completing that ritual,
he wrapped in my dress those herbs called

748
01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:19.840
rosemary. Then he covered me with
blankets and stayed by my side to take

749
01:00:19.880 --> 01:00:25.480
care of me I remember that night
I slept calmly without having nightmares. For

750
01:00:25.519 --> 01:00:30.639
Blanca, it wasn' t the
same. When we were going back to

751
01:00:30.679 --> 01:00:34.480
town, my mom told me she
had a restless time all night. He

752
01:00:34.559 --> 01:00:38.119
was crying in a very strange way. It seemed like he was scared of

753
01:00:38.119 --> 01:00:42.440
his mom. As always, he
didn' t listen to him. The

754
01:00:42.519 --> 01:00:46.159
next time we visited the Witch,
Cecilio made me another clean, only now

755
01:00:46.559 --> 01:00:52.719
with a chicken egg he swept me
about three minutes later emptied it into a

756
01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:57.800
glass of water. He asked us
not to be scared because the whole content

757
01:00:57.800 --> 01:01:01.000
was black when I was, but
my mom asked me to forgive myself for

758
01:01:01.039 --> 01:01:07.920
not believing me at all. Minutes
later he made me another clean one when

759
01:01:07.000 --> 01:01:10.639
I emptied the egg. This one
came out normal. The nightmares are gone.

760
01:01:12.119 --> 01:01:15.039
Since then I asked my mom never
to go back to her friend Maria

761
01:01:15.079 --> 01:01:21.360
' s house and we never did
it again. The last time we visited

762
01:01:21.400 --> 01:01:24.480
the Witch he told me not to
worry about dreams, because the Witch had

763
01:01:24.559 --> 01:01:30.400
already sent her back to the place
where she had come out again. I

764
01:01:30.440 --> 01:01:35.599
was inside my friend Blanca' s
nightmares. If that was true, I

765
01:01:35.639 --> 01:01:38.199
felt very sorry for her. My
mom always had the doubt to know if

766
01:01:38.320 --> 01:01:44.599
my friend was a child mistreated by
Mrs Maria or not. Maybe he was

767
01:01:44.639 --> 01:01:47.880
already affected by the blows in his
mind. It might be that, like

768
01:01:47.880 --> 01:01:52.679
me, she was very naive,
she caught me with her stories of them.

769
01:01:52.679 --> 01:01:55.719
We never heard from each other again. For my part, I am

770
01:01:55.719 --> 01:02:07.519
very sure of what I looked at
that night and of the heavilas I had

771
01:02:07.599 --> 01:02:14.199
looking for Bruges. My name is
Marcos. I will start by saying that,

772
01:02:14.400 --> 01:02:17.320
despite living in a rural area,
I did not believe in the things

773
01:02:17.320 --> 01:02:22.119
that others told. I am referring
above all to Bruges, who, by

774
01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:27.079
the way, the vast majority of
the people I knew claimed to have had

775
01:02:27.119 --> 01:02:31.480
some kind of experience with those beings. They usually spoke without foundation, spoke

776
01:02:31.599 --> 01:02:37.639
of healing powers, of their strength
to provoke evils and even of their ability

777
01:02:37.719 --> 01:02:43.679
to transform into strange animals. Others
said they took their feet off and even

778
01:02:43.719 --> 01:02:46.679
their eyes off. I never believed
it. Despite living in a very unpopulated

779
01:02:46.760 --> 01:02:52.960
place and almost plunged into the dark, my nights were quiet, without shock

780
01:02:52.960 --> 01:03:00.639
or fear. I always lived alone
I didn' t even have animals as

781
01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:02.960
companions I couldn' t stand everything
bad for me. It began in mid

782
01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:07.119
- September of one thousand nine hundred
and seventy- six, when I became

783
01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:12.480
seriously ill. The doctor in the
nearest town couldn' t find the cause

784
01:03:12.519 --> 01:03:15.039
of my ills. Despite all the
treatments he gave me, my condition only

785
01:03:15.119 --> 01:03:22.960
worsened without caring more about my health. I left the work I had and

786
01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:28.800
went to other towns to consult with
other doctors, but their diagnoses were always

787
01:03:28.840 --> 01:03:34.960
the same. My illness, apparently, was incurable. As it is obvious

788
01:03:34.960 --> 01:03:37.599
to hear. That was really hard
for me. I wasn' t gonna

789
01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:40.039
sit around and wait for my death. Something had to be done and soon

790
01:03:40.639 --> 01:03:46.280
desperate, I started looking for alternatives
outside of traditional medicine. Now I don

791
01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:52.960
' t mean this derogatoryly, but
at the time I did it because I

792
01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:58.119
thought the local doctors were inept.
Besides, I didn' t have the

793
01:03:58.159 --> 01:04:04.480
chance to go to the city to
consult a specium because I was quite retired

794
01:04:04.519 --> 01:04:08.320
taking herbs that I recommended. It' s been almost a month. That

795
01:04:08.360 --> 01:04:13.480
' s when someone in the ejido
mentioned the healer. A few days I

796
01:04:13.559 --> 01:04:16.400
was in doubt until I went to
see her. She told me she'

797
01:04:16.480 --> 01:04:20.000
d try to help me. After
two days of treating me with clean and

798
01:04:20.119 --> 01:04:25.800
concoctions, she assured me that the
only one who could help me was a

799
01:04:25.800 --> 01:04:30.320
witch. He' s septic.
I told him I' d think about

800
01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:32.440
it pretty seriously. He told me
not to let it go any longer.

801
01:04:32.880 --> 01:04:39.800
In the end I decided to visit
her because the days ran too fast in

802
01:04:39.880 --> 01:04:44.360
my desperation and believed that what they
told about them was a total lie.

803
01:04:44.760 --> 01:04:47.599
I thought I wasn' t losing
anything to check. I started investigating where

804
01:04:47.719 --> 01:04:53.440
I could find some to go see
her, see what was going on with

805
01:04:53.480 --> 01:04:58.320
the people I knew. I got
some places where the so- called witches

806
01:04:58.719 --> 01:05:00.719
lived, because I didn' t
only know one for my astonishment. There

807
01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:05.639
were many of these women. Most
of them were in villages far away from

808
01:05:05.679 --> 01:05:10.719
my community. That didn' t
stop me. It was about doing something

809
01:05:10.760 --> 01:05:14.679
for my life. First I went
back to the old healer right there,

810
01:05:15.840 --> 01:05:18.719
because she sent me to talk.
He suggested that before going out to look

811
01:05:18.760 --> 01:05:25.280
for a witch, he protect me
by doing a rite of protection, because

812
01:05:25.360 --> 01:05:29.559
not anyone could stand in front of
that kind of women and not pay a

813
01:05:29.559 --> 01:05:34.039
fatal consequence. That same night,
following the instructions that the healer had given

814
01:05:34.159 --> 01:05:40.840
me, I was still clear on
Mount Near I carried with me a black

815
01:05:41.280 --> 01:05:45.599
candle, a piece of red cloth
and some dried herbs. I made sure

816
01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:49.440
there was no one around to start. As I tried to light the candle

817
01:05:49.519 --> 01:05:55.599
and recite the words I had memorized, the air became cold until it seemed

818
01:05:55.639 --> 01:05:59.960
to me that the night became darker. I felt a strong perdo presence,

819
01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:05.000
but there was no one I beat
to light the candle, because I can

820
01:06:05.079 --> 01:06:11.000
assure that someone would turn it off. It was as if for some reason

821
01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:15.039
they were trying to stop me from
carrying out a thing like that. When

822
01:06:15.440 --> 01:06:18.880
I finally lit it in the candle
flame, I burned those herbs I wore.

823
01:06:20.239 --> 01:06:24.440
Then I made some marks on my
sides, on the plants, on

824
01:06:24.480 --> 01:06:29.559
my hands and on my feet.
I took the remains of those ashes I

825
01:06:29.599 --> 01:06:33.880
put into my ears in my nose. I ate some too. Supposedly all

826
01:06:34.079 --> 01:06:39.920
this was my protection. I didn' t understand why the healer didn'

827
01:06:39.960 --> 01:06:44.880
t want me to do this ritual
and left it to me when I ended

828
01:06:44.880 --> 01:06:47.239
up right there in the ground.
When I retired, I constantly turned back

829
01:06:47.280 --> 01:06:54.320
because I felt something or someone was
following me at that time as a believer.

830
01:06:55.039 --> 01:06:59.960
Then I started praying all the way
back until I was at my house.

831
01:07:00.920 --> 01:07:03.880
I felt safe. I had a
restless time that night. It became

832
01:07:03.960 --> 01:07:09.840
eternal for me to dawn, because
I was urged to find someone to help

833
01:07:09.880 --> 01:07:14.719
me. The next day. Even
with my discomfort I started my journey.

834
01:07:15.320 --> 01:07:18.280
I did it on foot because I
had to sell some of my belongings.

835
01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:23.840
I cannot deny that, for some
reason, a slight hope grew in me

836
01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:28.880
to be cured by all that was
said about those women, to the first

837
01:07:28.960 --> 01:07:33.360
people who would go was obviously the
closest. If just about two hours from

838
01:07:33.400 --> 01:07:39.159
my house, getting some rides from
people I was finding on the roads,

839
01:07:39.679 --> 01:07:44.239
I approached my first destination before arriving. I don' t know why.

840
01:07:44.360 --> 01:07:48.599
I started getting nervous. I stopped
thinking that there was nothing more terrible than

841
01:07:48.639 --> 01:07:55.119
death and I encouraged myself to follow. I was struggling to avoid her passing

842
01:07:55.199 --> 01:08:00.719
by. When I arrived in that
town and asked about the lady who told

843
01:08:00.239 --> 01:08:05.400
me no one wanted to give me
information, I walked around talking to one

844
01:08:05.880 --> 01:08:11.480
or another person until finally a lady
came to me and told me where I

845
01:08:11.519 --> 01:08:15.199
could find Doña Renata what the so- called witch was called. Another thing

846
01:08:15.279 --> 01:08:20.000
he told me discreetly was to be
very careful with her, especially what she

847
01:08:20.119 --> 01:08:26.439
told me. I walked through the
mountain for a few minutes until I ran

848
01:08:26.479 --> 01:08:30.279
into a badly made house. I
yelled at him several times until he got

849
01:08:30.279 --> 01:08:33.760
out. She was an old woman. I haven' t talked to her

850
01:08:33.840 --> 01:08:38.800
yet and I doubted she could cure
me. I doubted she was a dangerous

851
01:08:38.800 --> 01:08:43.720
witch. When I saw her closely, I was a little impressed by her

852
01:08:43.720 --> 01:08:47.920
appearance. I realized her skin looked
like wrinkled paper and her eyes were two

853
01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:54.800
dead dark wells. With a raspberry
voice he asked me what I wanted,

854
01:08:55.199 --> 01:08:59.840
but not even half a time to
talk. Suddenly he came up to smell

855
01:08:59.840 --> 01:09:03.880
me. She asked me upset why
I went with a protection to see her

856
01:09:04.039 --> 01:09:06.640
how I didn' t know what
to answer. He looked at me distastefully.

857
01:09:08.279 --> 01:09:12.039
Then he told me he couldn'
t help me. I urged him

858
01:09:12.119 --> 01:09:15.520
a lot until he finally felt sorry
for me, but I was willing to

859
01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:21.159
do anything to get my health the
things he asked me to do with some

860
01:09:21.159 --> 01:09:26.359
animals. It was so atrocious that
I had to refuse and without thinking twice

861
01:09:26.439 --> 01:09:30.079
I rejected it because it was obvious
that for some reason he did not want

862
01:09:30.079 --> 01:09:34.039
to help me. Hence a little
disillusioned. I went to the next town.

863
01:09:34.399 --> 01:09:38.560
When I got here, it was
a bit late and I was tired.

864
01:09:39.279 --> 01:09:42.279
That' s why I looked for
a place to stay that night.

865
01:09:42.640 --> 01:09:46.840
I had some very severe pains,
but I couldn' t let myself get

866
01:09:46.840 --> 01:09:50.800
over it. I had to keep
looking for the other witches. I had

867
01:09:50.920 --> 01:09:58.399
no choice but to get the address
I was bringing. I walked a long

868
01:09:58.439 --> 01:10:02.239
time until I asked where that house
is. I got the signs. I

869
01:10:02.279 --> 01:10:08.239
was surprised that I went through it
several times and I hadn' t seen

870
01:10:08.520 --> 01:10:11.800
anything, but now it was there. It was like he showed up out

871
01:10:11.840 --> 01:10:15.239
of nowhere like that. The second
to visit was a young woman with long

872
01:10:15.279 --> 01:10:19.800
black hair. She didn' t
even look like a witch but anything else.

873
01:10:20.159 --> 01:10:25.199
She was a village girl. That' s why I doubted he could

874
01:10:25.199 --> 01:10:28.359
help me. He passed me to
his strange house, full of candlelights,

875
01:10:29.479 --> 01:10:33.319
as well as a strong smell of
incense. Suddenly he stopped for a few

876
01:10:33.439 --> 01:10:38.119
seconds and looked at me from top
to bottom. He also realized my protection.

877
01:10:39.279 --> 01:10:42.199
Maybe that' s why he shook
his head in a negative way.

878
01:10:42.760 --> 01:10:45.960
I felt the same rejection as the
previous witch. Like the other woman,

879
01:10:46.159 --> 01:10:51.960
I had to beg reluctantly. In
exchange for helping me, he asked me

880
01:10:53.000 --> 01:10:56.920
for a blood sacrifice, something I
don' t even dare describe. Of

881
01:10:56.960 --> 01:11:01.600
course, I wasn' t willing
to do any of that He got so

882
01:11:01.640 --> 01:11:06.520
upset when I told him I wouldn' t do it that he almost beat

883
01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:09.680
me out of his house, yelling
at me that then I died. I

884
01:11:09.720 --> 01:11:14.000
got scared out of there, without
understanding his reaction, I came to think

885
01:11:14.039 --> 01:11:17.880
that the protection he had, rather
than helping me, was affecting me as

886
01:11:17.920 --> 01:11:21.399
much or more than the disease itself. I remember I came to curse the

887
01:11:21.439 --> 01:11:27.840
healer. I began to despair because
more than a week had passed and I

888
01:11:27.880 --> 01:11:30.560
had not managed to get any witch
to attend to me. That was the

889
01:11:30.680 --> 01:11:35.079
first time I thought I' d
die. As time passed. I began

890
01:11:35.159 --> 01:11:40.359
to believe that witches did have power. I couldn' t find the formula

891
01:11:40.399 --> 01:11:43.760
for him to take care of me. By those dates I had not yet

892
01:11:43.880 --> 01:11:47.039
seen anything out of the ordinary.
However, every woman I visited was more

893
01:11:47.119 --> 01:11:54.000
disturbing than the previous one. Despite
my failures, I did not give up

894
01:11:54.039 --> 01:11:58.399
on my discomforts. I went to
find the next witch waiting for her to

895
01:11:58.439 --> 01:12:03.159
help me, because I was running
out of options. I walked almost a

896
01:12:03.199 --> 01:12:08.279
whole day in the sun. I
followed a path that seemed endless. At

897
01:12:08.319 --> 01:12:13.680
sunset I rested a little because my
feet were already sore. Luckily, there

898
01:12:13.920 --> 01:12:17.960
was a driver who showed me where
to go. It' s worth mentioning

899
01:12:18.000 --> 01:12:23.920
that she tried to convince me not
to be the Third Witch I found her

900
01:12:23.920 --> 01:12:27.319
in that almost abandoned village. She
was just a spectral figure to see her

901
01:12:27.359 --> 01:12:31.840
seriously scary. His gray dress was
so long that it looked like he was

902
01:12:31.960 --> 01:12:35.560
floating a few inches from the ground. It gave me so much fear that

903
01:12:35.600 --> 01:12:41.319
I was about to run away my
desire to recover stopped me. When I

904
01:12:41.359 --> 01:12:45.560
was in front of her. I
couldn' t hold his eyes for even

905
01:12:45.600 --> 01:12:48.079
a few seconds. He was so
strong, he kept me still. She

906
01:12:48.159 --> 01:12:50.680
asked me if I was looking for
her. I asserted with my head.

907
01:12:51.439 --> 01:12:57.239
His hands, bony and cold,
spread to me. When he realized the

908
01:12:57.319 --> 01:13:03.479
protection, he also reacted negatively.
He stared at me for a few minutes

909
01:13:03.640 --> 01:13:08.800
later, holding a grimace on his
face, he asked me for something horrible

910
01:13:08.880 --> 01:13:12.359
and that my soul was not waiting
for the devil. In exchange for the

911
01:13:12.399 --> 01:13:16.960
cure, now it is shaking with
fear. I refused one more time without

912
01:13:17.000 --> 01:13:21.039
waiting to see what kind of reaction
I had left that house. Eventually I

913
01:13:21.119 --> 01:13:28.600
realized that these witches could bring more
trouble and fear to my life. I

914
01:13:28.680 --> 01:13:31.800
was not going to stop, knowing
that time was getting shorter and more desperate

915
01:13:31.800 --> 01:13:36.640
to find a solution to my illness, I decided to look for the last

916
01:13:36.760 --> 01:13:41.880
one on my list. If she
didn' t attend to me, I

917
01:13:41.920 --> 01:13:45.920
was lost perhaps innocently, I tried
to take away that protection. Shaking my

918
01:13:45.039 --> 01:13:48.960
clothes, I threw myself to the
ground. I rolled up several times hoping

919
01:13:49.039 --> 01:13:53.600
that something would do me good and
that witch would end up helping me.

920
01:13:54.119 --> 01:13:58.880
When I arrived in that town where
he was, I realized that the only

921
01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:03.279
name of that woman caused fear in
people. I still braved myself and looked

922
01:14:03.439 --> 01:14:09.079
for her until I found her.
When I got home it seemed amazing,

923
01:14:09.199 --> 01:14:14.680
but apparently he was already waiting for
me and even knew my name. That

924
01:14:14.760 --> 01:14:20.319
was good for me. This last
witch was the scariest of all. It

925
01:14:20.359 --> 01:14:25.520
was a tall, thin figure with
a single look. It was enough to

926
01:14:25.640 --> 01:14:29.119
know that I had to talk to
him with respect. His voice was rumbling

927
01:14:29.159 --> 01:14:31.840
in my head, with no need
for words. He told me a lot

928
01:14:31.840 --> 01:14:34.720
of things. She was the only
one who let me talk about my ills.

929
01:14:35.279 --> 01:14:40.720
It was obvious you knew about the
protection. He didn' t react

930
01:14:40.840 --> 01:14:43.600
like the others and he didn'
t reject me. On the contrary,

931
01:14:43.800 --> 01:14:47.439
he explained to me that he needed
more help than I thought. First I

932
01:14:47.520 --> 01:14:51.439
looked at my eyes and listened to
the heartbeats of my heart. After a

933
01:14:51.560 --> 01:14:57.319
few minutes he told me he was
fine if he was going to help me,

934
01:14:58.079 --> 01:15:01.640
but the price was quite expensive.
Practice vanquished, I told him I

935
01:15:01.760 --> 01:15:05.439
' d accept anything. He offered
me the cure in exchange for one thing

936
01:15:05.880 --> 01:15:11.880
to tell me the exact day of
my death. At that moment, I

937
01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:16.000
thought it was ridiculous. His proposal
was exhausted and without further options. Besides,

938
01:15:16.159 --> 01:15:21.239
I accepted your offer because I thought
it was the most acceptable and simple

939
01:15:21.239 --> 01:15:26.199
of all. I didn' t
even know what she' d gain from

940
01:15:26.279 --> 01:15:29.920
that, but I didn' t
care. I was urged to heal because

941
01:15:30.000 --> 01:15:31.880
I felt like I was. In
the latter he put his hand on my

942
01:15:31.920 --> 01:15:39.920
right side over my heart immediately.
I felt like an energy was also leaving

943
01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:44.079
me a huge cold took hold of
me. I started sweating and my legs

944
01:15:44.119 --> 01:15:46.880
were shaking. I don' t
remember anymore. Apparently, I lost my

945
01:15:46.920 --> 01:15:53.359
mind. When I reacted, I
was lying on a bat in the middle

946
01:15:53.359 --> 01:15:58.000
of some candles, just as they
put the dead in my community. When

947
01:15:58.119 --> 01:16:01.359
I could, I got up wobbly. I must admit, I felt a

948
01:16:01.439 --> 01:16:06.239
little better at the time. I
thought I had already healed, but that

949
01:16:06.520 --> 01:16:10.560
woman let me know it wasn'
t like that. He asked me to

950
01:16:10.600 --> 01:16:14.319
come back in two days. That
was only the first of three visits I

951
01:16:14.399 --> 01:16:17.600
had to make to her, because, according to her, facing death was

952
01:16:17.640 --> 01:16:23.960
not easy at all. I was
sure I could help. I was glad

953
01:16:24.039 --> 01:16:29.119
to think that I would soon heal
regardless of the consequences. I was willing

954
01:16:29.199 --> 01:16:33.840
to do what that woman foolishly asked
me to even feel grateful to that witch

955
01:16:34.119 --> 01:16:41.239
and my intention was to overreward her
when she was well. The second time

956
01:16:41.279 --> 01:16:45.439
I visited her was painful because I
almost burned the body from where I had

957
01:16:45.479 --> 01:16:51.560
put myself. That protection assured me
that I needed to remove it so that

958
01:16:51.640 --> 01:16:55.880
I could completely expel the disease.
I couldn' t wait to scream as

959
01:16:55.880 --> 01:16:59.640
much as I could. That night
I stayed at his house because of the

960
01:16:59.720 --> 01:17:04.119
rough chance I had to walk because
of the pain he caused me. I

961
01:17:04.159 --> 01:17:08.560
thought it would be terrible to spend
a night at that witch' s house.

962
01:17:09.199 --> 01:17:14.920
I figured horrible things would happen to
me, but the truth was I

963
01:17:14.920 --> 01:17:17.920
barely laid down. I fell deeply
asleep. Until the next day. Finally,

964
01:17:18.239 --> 01:17:23.880
two days later, the long-
awaited third visit came. On that

965
01:17:23.960 --> 01:17:28.319
occasion he swept me away with pieces
of ice. He told me that he

966
01:17:28.359 --> 01:17:33.079
would try to erase my baptism as
much as he could, because he wanted

967
01:17:33.119 --> 01:17:35.960
or was not attacking God' s
will by refusing to accept his command.

968
01:17:38.199 --> 01:17:42.439
It really was a pain. I
felt the ice burning my skin, but

969
01:17:42.800 --> 01:17:46.239
other than that, something was coming
out of me. I can' t

970
01:17:46.279 --> 01:17:51.960
even explain it. It was like
my spirit came out. After an hour

971
01:17:53.079 --> 01:17:56.600
he told me it was all.
I' d already ripped my bad off.

972
01:17:57.159 --> 01:18:00.720
Actually, I didn' t feel
the difference, but I wasn'

973
01:18:00.760 --> 01:18:03.079
t going to question his words.
I just thanked him for what he did

974
01:18:03.560 --> 01:18:08.239
for me before I retired. The
witch looked me in the eye then with

975
01:18:08.359 --> 01:18:11.319
a voice that I don' t
forget. He whispered to me the date

976
01:18:11.359 --> 01:18:15.640
when my life would end. I
couldn' t believe what I had done,

977
01:18:15.039 --> 01:18:19.520
but it was too late to regret. I was so scared, I

978
01:18:19.600 --> 01:18:24.319
' m sure she noticed. I
didn' t run home. I rested

979
01:18:24.399 --> 01:18:28.399
a few days in a village when
I was a little better, consulted a

980
01:18:28.439 --> 01:18:30.960
doctor who didn' t know me. His diagnosis was that I was in

981
01:18:31.039 --> 01:18:36.199
good physical condition. I really couldn' t believe it and smiled after a

982
01:18:36.239 --> 01:18:41.800
long time of not doing it.
Over time, my health improved and so

983
01:18:41.840 --> 01:18:45.279
far everything seemed to be going well. The date of my death was always

984
01:18:45.399 --> 01:18:51.560
present in my head and that was
terrifying. Every day that passed I was

985
01:18:51.680 --> 01:18:58.039
getting closer to that fateful moment.
Another thing that tormented me was to imagine

986
01:18:58.079 --> 01:19:02.199
how it would happen. This was
in the day, because at night I

987
01:19:02.479 --> 01:19:09.319
had terrible nightmares where I died again
and again, always in different ways,

988
01:19:09.479 --> 01:19:14.439
the cruelest ones I could imagine.
I learned to live with constant fear,

989
01:19:15.039 --> 01:19:19.359
knowing that there was no way to
escape my destiny. I was overwhelmed by

990
01:19:19.399 --> 01:19:24.640
a severe depression. My dreams died, my goals died and nothing mattered to

991
01:19:24.760 --> 01:19:28.800
me anymore. I had no case
or value in my life. I began

992
01:19:28.880 --> 01:19:32.560
to lose weight in an alarming way, and I am not ashamed to say

993
01:19:32.560 --> 01:19:38.720
that I cried every night and even
thought of attacking my life. To end

994
01:19:38.720 --> 01:19:45.359
that suffering, something evil. It
kept me from thinking positively even thought of

995
01:19:45.439 --> 01:19:49.000
turning to the devil to help me. When I got home, I looked

996
01:19:49.000 --> 01:19:55.199
for the healer who recommended that protection. But to my surprise he had already

997
01:19:55.239 --> 01:20:00.119
left the ejido and I could never
know if he did it for evil or

998
01:20:00.239 --> 01:20:04.079
to help a greater evil. Moreover, my intention was not to claim him,

999
01:20:04.920 --> 01:20:08.680
I was to ask him now what
I could do to free myself from

1000
01:20:08.680 --> 01:20:13.840
all that. I felt more lost
than ever. In the end I accepted

1001
01:20:13.880 --> 01:20:16.359
the reality of what I had done. I knew that in trying to save

1002
01:20:16.359 --> 01:20:20.600
my life, I had sealed my
fate and now I had to pay a

1003
01:20:20.600 --> 01:20:24.199
consequence. He didn' t even
have the courage to cry out to God.

1004
01:20:24.680 --> 01:20:29.359
I knew he probably wouldn' t
listen to me because of the barbarity

1005
01:20:29.359 --> 01:20:33.279
he had done. Now I only
hope that my story will serve as a

1006
01:20:33.319 --> 01:20:38.119
warning for those who, like me, seek answers in dark and dangerous places.

1007
01:20:39.319 --> 01:20:43.159
Sometimes it is better to accept what
life gives us and face our difficulties

1008
01:20:43.159 --> 01:20:49.279
courageously, rather than resorting to forces
that we do not understand. Today I

1009
01:20:49.399 --> 01:20:56.039
realize quite late that my illness was
cured. The price I paid was much

1010
01:20:56.119 --> 01:21:00.960
higher. I tell you that deep
inside me I have a slight r hope

1011
01:21:00.239 --> 01:21:04.680
that that witch has played with me
and the date of my death is not

1012
01:21:05.079 --> 01:21:10.399
true. Seriously. I want it. But, on the other hand,

1013
01:21:11.279 --> 01:21:15.640
I think that that was the punishment
that the Witch gave me for presenting myself

1014
01:21:15.840 --> 01:21:19.600
to her, with that strange protection, to know, the date of my

1015
01:21:19.720 --> 01:21:25.439
death, remains a constant fear in
my life, something that torments me as

1016
01:21:25.840 --> 01:21:30.600
much or more than the illness I
suffered, reminding me whenever there are things

1017
01:21:30.640 --> 01:21:36.199
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