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Cat eyes. My name is Isabela, being just a 13- year-

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old teenager. In the early 1970s
we lived on the northern border of Mexico,

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in an old house very close to
the Rio Bravo. I' ve

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always been a lover of cats in
general, especially cats. We were all

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in the house for the same reason, since I remember, to date we

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have had minimum one cat, but
on other occasions we have up to seven.

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My mother' s been very young. My sister and I were taught

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that they were protectors for being hunters. They also helped make sure there were

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no cockroaches or mice. Our house, being near the river, was surrounded

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by large trees that heard how they
creaked when the wind rocked them. The

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fence across the street was made of
wood. The backyard almost with toast with

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the river waters. When it was
dark, our four cats went out to

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climb the trees and run through the
courtyard. We had a big dog who

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was used to seeing them. He
didn' t even bark at them for

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the same reason. Everyone sounds normal, but one autumn night the trees moved

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more than the count without making so
much air. I could hear them from

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my room and our dog barked insistently, as if an intruder were trying to

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get into the ground. I was
surprised when two of our cats came running

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desperately and crawled under my bed.
I got up because I also heard the

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way the dog barked. I looked
out the window. I realized that I

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was barking very hard at the Tree
Cup, thinking maybe a cat had stuck

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upstairs I went out to help him. It had already happened on other occasions.

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Very confident, I walked through the
courtyard. I didn' t expect

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the dog to ignore me and fall
on me. I called him by his

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name. His name was Duke,
but far from obeying he barked at me

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with more force, threatening to bite
me something bad was happening. The branches

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of the tree seemed to hide something
and that made the dog nervous. Suddenly

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they moved hard as if they had
shaken. I went back to see them

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because it was very strange. The
dog ran a few meters and then returned.

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Seconds later he calmed down I approached
the tree without losing sight of the

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dog with jokes. I called the
cat. I did it on several occasions

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because I didn' t respond with
her maulings. I walked around looking up.

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I couldn' t see clearly between
the branches. I knew there was

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no cat stuck. I checked other
trees and nothing. The dog behaved normally,

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as if nothing had happened the same. The trees stopped moving and everything

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was silent. On entering the house, I checked that the four cats were

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inside. That was only the first
time something strange happened, even though the

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whole day went by normally. When
night fell, the dog became restless again.

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It was weird. We didn'
t care, we just yelled at

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him to shut up, but he
insisted with his barking quickly. I remembered

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what had happened. The night before
I started watching the dog to see his

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movements. His aggressiveness went from less
to more, always barking towards the top

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of the larger tree. I knew
if there was anything I should be up

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there. Then I realized something else
weird. Cats didn' t go out

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in the yard like they always did. They looked out the windows like they

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felt something bad was out there.
My mom noticed strangers, too. He

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opened the door to one of them, called General, but he did not

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try to get out. He just
stared up at the trees and showed his

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teeth. That' s all,
but at midnight the cats started grunting and

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mauling in a very ugly way when
they heard them. My mom got up

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thinking they wanted to fight inside the
house hidden underneath things. Our cats were

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on the defensive, but not among
them were grunting at something we hadn'

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t seen at that time. We
went looking for ourselves thinking maybe a big

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animal, like a tlacuache or something
cats weren' t used to seeing,

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but we didn' t find anything. There came a time when the dog

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stopped barking and a sense of danger
felt in the environment. It was a

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strange thing that, at least,
gave me a chill. Maybe it happened

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to my mom because she looked scared. Cats kept grunting. My mom told

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me that someone who wasn' t
from this world was outside and the cats

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looked at him, because they had
that ability not only to see in the

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dark, they could also see ghosts, demons and witches. Listening to that

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made me more nervous because that subject
scared me a lot. After a while,

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the cats calmed down and left their
hiding places. We knew it had

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all happened. In addition, that
strange feeling that he felt also disappeared even

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so. Cats didn' t go
out in the yard that night. The

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next day, the cat named General, no longer wanted to eat and was

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afraid at the time he did not
get used to going with the veterinarian,

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at least not in my house.
My mom gave them a home remedy and

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they cured themselves for more things they
gave the general. He looked more and

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more down, and the next two
nights passed by. Our cats behaved strangely,

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but it didn' t pass from
there. If we added to that

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that we had seen nothing less,
we gave it importance. One morning I

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got up because the dogs around were
howling, including ours. Sometimes they did,

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but not that way. It was
a loud and elongated howl that put

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the chinita skin. It looked like
they were announcing death. I looked for

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the cats and all four of them
were inside the house. I put them

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in my room and tried to sleep
all night. He was barking and howling

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the dog. In the morning general
appeared lying in the backyard. He seemed

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dead at the time. I didn' t start thinking about how she got

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out of my room I rushed out
to check it out. I got close.

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The first thing I thought was that
the dog had bitten him, he

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was wallowing and he had no injuries. He was alive, but when I

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checked him right, I realized he
didn' t have his eyes scared.

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I yelled at my mom, and
by the time the kitten arrived, he

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was already dead. It really hurt
us to lose him. When he realized

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it, my dad got so angry
that he wanted to hit the dog,

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but we made him understand that the
cat had no bites. Besides, there

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was no irrigated blood. Neither do
we find our eyes anywhere, no matter

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how much we think. We didn' t know for a fact that it

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had happened to him. We bury
him in the yard and leave things alone.

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We couldn' t do anything.
The next few nights they were calm

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within three days. Our cat called
the moon began to behave strangely. He

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stood staring at a fixed point and
didn' t move. She seemed like

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she was hypnotized. We haven'
t known since when he was like this.

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What we did notice was that the
other cats didn' t act that

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way. Sometimes the cat grunted and
stood up, but we didn' t

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look at anyone. My mom started
praying because it could be a spirit that

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was around the house all day.
The cat continued to have a strange behavior.

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He wanted to go out at all
costs into the courtyard, mauled and

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scratched the fabrics. It looked like
someone was calling from outside. That night

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it was heard that someone was walking
around. One could feel a presence throughout

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the house and even in the courtyard
there was a strange silence. Only on

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some occasions had I heard the river
running. That time it was one of

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them. I had that feeling like
when something' s gonna happen. I

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opened the window and spoke to the
dog because he was very quiet, but

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he didn' t answer me.
It happened the rest of the night with

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some weird noises, but that was
all when it dawned. I missed my

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moon cat because it got up very
early and always walked between our legs mauling.

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For some reason. I looked out
the window and I looked at her

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lying in the courtyard and the first
thing that came to mind was to think

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that the same thing happened to her
as to general, since I looked at

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her lying on the edge of the
tree I knew she was dead. She

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was a very pretty white cat with
beautiful blue eyes. I didn' t

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even run to see her. I
talked to my mom and yelled at her

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that moon was dead. The disturbing
thing was to discover that, like the

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general, the moon had also been
taken out of its eyes. We checked

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the place, there were no prints
of another animal, no traces of any

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fighting. Apparently, moon hadn'
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I turned to the tree top.
The idea came to mind that whoever

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was attacking cats was doing it from
above. Then I dropped them after I

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pulled their eyes out. Regardless of
the pain it caused us, especially because

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of the way things were happening,
the fear of thinking that an animal or

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a person would go into our yard
at night was already worrying to be even

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more scary when looking at what he
was doing to our cats. I told

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my mom what I was thinking,
and when my dad came home from work,

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he talked to her, and between
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the tree, but nothing was found. Just like the time before, after

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we buried our cat, the following
nights passed quietly. The cats did not

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howl strangely as they were doing,
nor did the dog bark us. Above

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all I was on alert until we
laid down soil for them not to let

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them go out to do their needs, neither day nor night, for fear

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that something might happen to them.
Days and nights passed. One morning I

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heard a mauling outside the house.
I was barely getting out of bed thinking

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that one of the cats had stayed
outside, but I realized in time that

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the two of them were there in
bed with me. The mauling was so

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clear that even the cats straightened out. When she mauled again, I got

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scared because I recognized that sound.
It was moon, our dead cat in

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my teenage mind. I imagined her
in the middle of the courtyard full of

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earth, without eyes and with the
bones outside, showing her sharp teeth.

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I got really scared thinking I was
asleep. I was turning everywhere. Being

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my consenting cat, I gained the
feeling and the desire to see her again.

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That' s why I went to
look out the window followed by the

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two cats. I looked for her
without looking at her suddenly in the dark.

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I looked at the glow of her
blue eyes, and she was mauling

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so hard, it seemed like she
was calling from my house. I spoke

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to him by his name to bring
him closer. I was mauling in a

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way that hurt. I confess that
I intended to go out only that those

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eyes moved in a rather strange way. I began to doubt that that was

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suddenly a cat in an unexpected way. Those bright eyes rose about two meters.

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Eyes began to move in the dark. When I looked at it,

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it was the silhouette of a person
who was there and I started to notice

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that there was something else that was
moving. They were two shadows that came

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down from the trees as if they
were reptiles, rather than mere shadows.

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They were definite figures sliding up and
down the trees. They climbed them with

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agility. Many cats were mauled,
but their mauled ones were strange. I

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ran to talk to my mom.
By telling him what he was looking at.

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He didn' t understand me at
first. I took her by the

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hand and pulled her, took her
in front of the window, but there

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was no one outside. For the
same reason he assured me that everything had

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been a dream or had imagined it
for a moment made me doubt, but

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I was sure of what I had
seen. The next night I heard again

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the maulings of my moon cat.
I didn' t want to lift my

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mom anymore. I decided to spy
to see if those strange figures came out.

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With my heart pounding hard against my
chest, I slipped out of my

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bed and looked out the window.
Whatever was out there was there. His

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silhouette looked strange against the moonlight.
Sometimes he would put on all fours and

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maul. As the brightness of his
eyes reached me. His clothes moved like

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he made a lot of air.
He raised his hands to heaven. Then

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he pointed toward the earth. His
bright eyes were still directed toward our house.

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As I walked a few steps,
I realized I was a horrible,

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skinny, long- haired woman.
I didn' t know what to do

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at the time. I stood like
a stake. I couldn' t move.

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He had a few meters to get
there. When he stopped and howled

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at me again like he did at
my cat. At that time I realized

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that it was she who had taken
our cats' eyes off. I was

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going to retire from the window when
one more figure appeared. She was another

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old woman and bent over with a
look that iced the blood. His eyes

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were like those of a cat,
but they shone with a different light.

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One of my cats scared me.
I went back to see him and asked

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him to shut up. When I
looked back at the window in front of

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me, there was that witch with
the first thing I ran into was that

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woman had the eyes of my moon
cat and looked at me like she did.

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I don' t know how,
but at the time I knew they

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were taking our cats' eyes off
to put them on. Surely, the

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other woman, the hunched one,
had the eyes of general. That was

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the scariest thing I' ve ever
seen in my entire life. As I

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was able to get back scared,
I remember tripping over something and falling to

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the ground as I looked back at
the window. That horrible woman was gone.

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Apart from the two witches, I
had seen two shadows hiding in the

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branches of the trees. I suspected
they wouldn' t leave us alone until

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they got the eyes of all our
cats. All night long, that woman

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used to swoon around our house.
Every time I did, restless cats answered

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him and looked for a way out. The witch wanted them at all costs,

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but she wasn' t going to
let them. After knowing that what

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was killing my cats to steal her
eyes were witches. My fear deepened.

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One of those nights. I had
a horrible nightmare. I looked at myself

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in my room. The darkness seemed
denser as if it wanted to devour all

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the time star of light. I
was lying on my bed with my eyes

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open fixed at the door of my
room, waiting for something to happen.

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The door squeaked softly. At that
moment I knew the witch was here,

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but this time she wasn' t
coming for any cat. He was coming

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for me. My sheets felt heavy. My body screamed at me to get

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up and run, but fear paralyzed
me completely. The door opened completely at

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once. The witch stood in front
of me with difficulty. I could see

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her up close. He had greenish
skin and no eyes. That made her

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look awful. His figure was like
a dark spot against the pale light in

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the hallway. The fingers of his
hands had large, thick and stingy nails

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with which he had surely taken their
eyes. Our cats. She progressed slowly

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as enjoying my terror. As he
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that if I could not have the
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mine. Despite having his basins empty, he could feel his heavy gaze.

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His hand stretched out to my face
and his fingernails brushed my cheek. In

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an instant of despair, I screamed
as loudly as I could, a scream

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that broke the spell of my nightmare
and resonated all over the house. My

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mother burst into the room, lit
the light and for a moment I thought

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I looked clearly at the figure of
the Witch, making me doubt if everything

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had been a dream or a terrible
reality. But when I blinked, she

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had disappeared, leaving behind only the
echo of her voice and her sinister presence

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the cold that felt in every corner
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Since that night we locked all the
doors and windows when the sun fell,

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fearful that my nightmare would come true. Apparently, finally, my mom

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thought there were witches out there.
Even though that dream was like a warning

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to let cats out. Holding my
fear, I took better care of them

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than ever. My mom went to
a herb and got some amulets for the

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cats. I remember they were a
bell and an eye, but I don

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' t remember their meaning anymore.
We tied them around their necks seemed incredible,

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but that calmed them down a little
bit. I can assure you that

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made the witches very angry, because
in the evenings they looked out the windows

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looking for the cats and hit the
walls. For my worries and bad luck,

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I was just looking at her,
neither my parents nor my sister realized

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what was happening having to happen.
This is why I alone that witch,

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the one with moon eyes, spent
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That' s how he did it. For a week. The mauled stopped

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for the rest of the night.
Strange noises also disappeared. As a result,

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my mother returned to the hierberia and
got some amulets and herbs that we

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placed around the trunk of the tree
where we had seen them the following nights.

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Neither that nor any witch appeared,
but fear never left us, not

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only my mom, my dad also
finally accepted that witches could be real,

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because they also knew that, according
to legend, cats could see beyond this

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world. That' s why witches
used their eyes apart from being able to

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see in the dark with them.
Many times I have told this story,

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even though not everyone believes me.
This happened to me again in Tamaulipas.

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Now that place is called the swirl. I' m pretty sure what I

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saw when the night whistled. My
name is Fabian and I have lived in

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the city most of my life.
Every summer. I return to my family

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' s ranch outside a small town. That ranch is now abandoned. This

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story I' m about to tell
you. It happened a few years ago

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when my grandparents were still alive.
It was a particularly hot summer night.

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I had just arrived at the pleasant
ranch as always, floundered with the grandparents

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until the sun was hidden past nine
o' clock. As was my custom,

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I lay outside in a hammock my
grandfather had. In the middle of

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the big yard. The clear sky
showed stars that seemed to blink from above

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on the ranch. The night silence
was only interrupted by the occasional lynching of

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horses or the distant howl of a
coyote. Listening to those sounds gave me

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the peace of mind I needed.
The ranch was probably not very large,

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rather it was of regular size.
He had goats, pigs, and other

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animals like chickens and some cows.
That night, a weirdo unusual to me

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made me turn around everywhere was very
different from any other noise. After a

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few seconds I looked at an owl
between the branches of a tree as white

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as a ghost. I' ve
been watching her. She looked like she

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was looking at me, too.
Then another whistle was heard and then another

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whistle was heard. I didn'
t have to be alarmed by the presence

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of owls. What I didn'
t expect was that they would increase in

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number. Suddenly, a large tree
near a corral looked white as if snow

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had fallen. I' ve never
seen so many white birds together. I

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talked to my grandfather to explain if
that was normal. When he saw them,

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he wasn' t even surprised.
He told me very calmly that they

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had a week visiting him, stayed
all night whistling and disappeared all at dawn.

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Grandpa was not so concerned about his
presence, because owls were killing rats

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that abounded in that season. He
commented that they had never arrived as much

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as that night. He went into
the house again. I tried to ignore

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them, but their looks stole from
me. The past dream. Midnight was

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still awake. I noticed an unusual
movement among the other trees. Many owls

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more than they could count quickly arrived
in a hurry. She was quite a

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parvada. My grandfather had told me
it wasn' t to worry. Better.

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I went into the house that night. It was the first time since

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I visited my grandparents, that I
felt afraid for something I was trying to

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sleep when I heard that owls didn' t know how much, but there

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were many. They were walking through
the sheet roof. The sound was loud,

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very similar to that of the rain
to hear them. I was getting

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nervous because seconds later they weren'
t just walking. He could hear the

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roof pecking, his flaps heard,
in addition to the many whistles. It

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hasn' t been many minutes.
Suddenly, the sound disappeared, making me

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assume that they had flown. I
got up just to look out the window,

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because I didn' t decide to
leave still restless by the number of

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birds that were outside. There was
nothing and the whistles were heard. I

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was a little surprised, but I
also felt calmer. The next day,

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Walking a little around the ranch grounds, I found many skeletons of rats and

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other small animals. There were some
rats. I was surprised they weren'

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t dry. Surely those knew they
had been killed during the night. I

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didn' t want to see myself
in front of my grandfather. Like a

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scary guy, I' d rather
not ask him anything. In addition,

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it was clear that the owls had
been the cause. While we were having

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lunch among talks, the theme of
rats and white birds came up. I

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noticed right away that my grandmother was
deliberately interrupting trying to keep my grandfather from

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being more specific. He made sure
the owls would soon leave by night.

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As everything was calm. I was
cautious. I walked around looking at the

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big tree where the owls had stood. Everything was normal. I walked a

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little longer, breathed the quiet air
and lay down in the hammock. Even

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though nothing unusual happened, I felt
restless without knowing why. It hadn'

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t been long, if only an
hour when the whistles started. Again,

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the owls appeared, gathered in the
large oak tree. The one who was

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near the corral, I felt his
harsh looks at me again, watching them

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from where I was I saw how
they were grouped in a strange way,

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starting to form an increasingly definite figure. I couldn' t understand what they

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were doing. Their bodies aligned precisely, their feathers intertwined as they emitted strange

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sounds. Little by little. The
figure of a woman began to take shape

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in front of my eyes, not
sure what I was seeing. I stood

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up that figure kept forming as all
the owls whistled loudly running. I put

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a small barn in front of the
house because of inertia, rather than out

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of curiosity, I looked out the
window to see that figure still somewhat distorted,

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of a woman who was floating.
I stared at her. I had

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no doubt what I was looking at. I' d heard a lot about

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owls. They said they were witches, but I always believed a story,

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but it was. So how was
it possible what was going on when that

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woman was complete, to put it
another way, the witch sat on the

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house because she couldn' t call
it another way. She looked tall and

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thin. His face was covered with
shadows. He let his eyes shine with

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a yellow glow. That told me
I could see in the dark. Clearly,

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I could see her turning around,
you could feel her look. When

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I turned towards myself, I fell
to the ground. I hadn' t

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noticed, but I was shaking like
a scared kid. After a few seconds

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I immediately straightened myself by whistling a
big whistle. That woman rose in flight

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followed by many owls more formed a
white mantle that for a few seconds obstructed

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the light of the moon, and
then totally disappeared, leaving everything in a

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disturbing silence. After a while I
left the barn, crossed the courtyard towards

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the house waiting for us to be
attacked by those birds. There was no

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trace of them. That night I
couldn' t sleep what I had just

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seen was something strange. I was
wondering if I could tell my grandfather what

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I' d seen or not.
When it dawned to the surprise of all

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several rabbits appeared dead in a way
that even my grandfather was surprised. They

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were all pecking in an exaggerated way. Something like that has never happened before.

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We looked around to find out what
kind of predator had done that.

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We searched without finding anything. Grandpa
said that what killed the rabbits came from

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hell. At first I didn'
t understand his words. Then he also

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commented that it could be the owls. That day, Grandpa went out to

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visit his nearest neighbor. He stopped
me from getting weird about riding his horse

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and taking his carbine talking to my
grandmother. I knew they didn' t

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have a good relationship with that person. Upon returning again, they did not

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want to comment on it. When
night fell, those owls appeared again.

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This time a little earlier, they
seemed much more than the previous time.

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They were flying around our house like
zopilots warning of a dam. I knew

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that behavior in that kind of bird
was strange. My grandfather, perhaps upset

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by the death of his rabbits,
worried that it would happen again, went

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out with a carbine and shot them
several times with the thunderbolts. The birds

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flew wild, but immediately they returned
to the tree as if it had a

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magnet shot them again to their astonishment. The same thing happened. Scared by

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the gunshots, my grandmother got up
quickly and began to pray in voice.

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The taller it got, the owls
gave it. They had all flown without

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making the slightest noise as if they
had disappeared. I' ve never been

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through a situation like this before.
Inside the house we talked about the myth

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that owls were transformed witches. My
grandfather said yes, but he assured me

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that what he was lurking around the
ranch was something else, something from another

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world, because, despite the shots, he didn' t give any of

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those birds and that couldn' t
be possible. It was probably witchcraft.

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That night they didn' t come
back, but in the morning we found

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more dead animals, rabbit chickens up
to a pig' s calf were pecking,

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but no trace of blood. Besides, there were no prints on the

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floor either. I began to accept
that this could not be done by owls.

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It was probably something related to the
paranormal, because I didn' t

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know any animals that would do that
damage and leave no ras. My grandfather,

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worried, decided that that night we
would stay awake the three of us

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determined to defend the animals of the
ranch at all costs, regardless of the

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origin of the predator. As the
evening fell, we locked up all the

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animals, reinforced their cages and came
to the idea that we wouldn' t

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sleep. My grandmother led us on, asked us to be very careful.

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Then she went into the house to
pray while we looked for a place to

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hide and see if the owls were
actually the aggressors or there was something else,

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as if they knew about our plans. The birds didn' t show

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up and it was past midnight.
We were tired about to go to sleep.

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When we heard whistling approaching. I
remember well that my grandfather raised his

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rifle determined to shoot them in an
instant the big tree that turned white and

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the whistle of so many animals is
gone or. I heard disturbing. My

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grandfather asked me not to move.
The owls arrived and arrived looking at them

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well if they looked different, they
were a little bigger than normal, with

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long legs and their eyes almost occupied
their entire face. They acted desperate,

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they fought each other, they all
wanted to be in the tree as if

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it depended on their life. As
the first night I saw them, the

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owls were disturbed as they formed a
sinister figure, we were just surprised to

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see what was appearing in front of
our eyes. My grandfather couldn' t

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believe it. When that woman formed, she had the carbine in her hands,

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but something prevented her from shooting.
From where we were we could see

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that this witch came down from the
tree, opened the cages and went against

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the animals, which they didn'
t even do to defend themselves. The

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other owls fluttered, preventing us from
seeing clearly what was happening. Some of

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those birds walked through the earth making
strange movements. The minutes passed we assumed

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the witch would devour all the animals
if we didn' t do something soon.

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In his desperation, my grandfather fired
the rifle. The witch stopped,

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turned to us and for a moment
her eyes stuck in us. Then the

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owls that formed his body quickly dispersed. They all flew towards that tree,

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and then, after a few seconds, drove off in an unknown direction,

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leaving only the echo of their whistles
that faded away in the night. We

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stayed a few minutes processing all that. I can' t deny that both

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my grandfather and I were quite nervous. When we were sure those birds wouldn

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' t come back, we got
out of where we were. I returned

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to the house still with my heart, beating wildly over the adrenaline of the

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nur. I find the dawn soon
arrived and with him the doubts about whether

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to stay at the ranch or not
because of what I had seen when checking

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the animals. Not many were missing, but some had been injured. Only

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a goat and a rabbit were dead. As we got rid of them.

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The grandparents told me that their neighbor, the one with whom they had no

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good relationship, was surely responsible for
what was going on. I wanted to

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know more. They told me they' d tell me later at noon.

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My grandfather went out for help with
a person who knew things related to witchcraft,

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a woman known as Doña Nena,
who did not live far from the

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ranch. In the meantime, my
grandmother took the opportunity to tell me why

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things were happening. One afternoon,
my grandfather went to play canteen. That

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occasion came out of litigation with that
gentleman I no longer remember the name of.

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Strange things have started to happen on
the ranch ever since. First voices

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were heard outside, but there were
no people. They discovered that those who

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spoke at night were two big black
birds hiding in the largest tree gnawing when

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grandparents scared them off. Some time
later a flock of crows arrived and began

413
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:25.880
to eat. The crops. They
talked and shouted all night, but soon

414
00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:31.480
they turned to that lady, Mrs
Baby, who helped them. Those birds

415
00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:37.000
disappeared and they didn' t come
back. Then there began to be a

416
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:42.440
light. First little flames that ran
through the darkness around the house. Then

417
00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:46.360
they were flares that jumped from tree
to tree. When they suspected that they

418
00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:51.360
were witches, they went to see
the same lady as Doña Nena, with

419
00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:54.559
some work, managed to keep them
away. Just a few weeks ago,

420
00:34:55.199 --> 00:35:00.760
the first owls appeared. We know
they' re not coming against us,

421
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:02.679
they' re coming against our animals, but we' re not leaving.

422
00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:08.880
My grandmother said. Later my grandfather
came with a kind of dry- weed

423
00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:15.079
monkey. He told us that in
the tree where the owls stood there was

424
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:21.159
a work of witchcraft. He set
up a ladder and looked for something between

425
00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:24.119
the branches of the largest tree,
the one near the corral. After searching

426
00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:31.320
we found three legs of black hens
were nailed to the thick trunk without touching

427
00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:36.880
them with hands we removed it.
Then my grandfather put on the monkey he

428
00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:44.199
brought that night. The owls arrived
on that occasion. The birds seemed rabid,

429
00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:49.679
some even bumped into the walls and
windows of the house. On the

430
00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:55.440
barn, owls began to become the
witch. My grandfather shot him with his

431
00:35:55.519 --> 00:36:02.559
carbine on several occasions until all the
owls were emitting a deafening chiffons. Some

432
00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:08.519
birds returned, but as the minutes
passed, they all left. One day

433
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:14.800
before returning to town, a white
bird broke into the house. It was

434
00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:17.920
directly where I was. He stood
in front of me making a strange noise.

435
00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:22.559
Her huge eyes were the same as
those of the witch that night she

436
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:28.239
turned to see me. When I
saw her, my grandmother assured me that

437
00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:31.679
that wasn' t a owl,
she was a witch. My grandmother hastened

438
00:36:31.679 --> 00:36:36.840
to go for the broom. It
didn' t take him more than a

439
00:36:36.840 --> 00:36:39.199
few seconds to get back. That
time was enough for me to pass through

440
00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:45.639
my memory everything I had lived since
the first time I looked at all those

441
00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:49.559
owls between the two fighting we managed
to get her out. The animal without

442
00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:53.039
being affected by daylight flew in circles
for a while until it moved away.

443
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:59.760
We didn' t know what his
intention was when he stepped in and dared

444
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:02.360
to look at me head- on. We were hoping that night all those

445
00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:07.079
birds would show up again, but
it wasn' t. What I didn

446
00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:10.800
' t expect was that during the
night I had a severe headache and fever

447
00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:15.440
that made me delirious or at least
that' s what my grandmother told me.

448
00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:22.000
I woke up at dawn feeling watched
by huge eyes moving through the darkness

449
00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:27.280
at that time. It was all
I saw, but I knew it was

450
00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:30.920
the witch that was hiding in front
of me. Suddenly a huge owl appeared

451
00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:37.840
on my feet that kept looking at
me. Her big yellow eyes numbed me

452
00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:43.119
in the blink of an eye.
I looked at a terrible woman looking at

453
00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:47.679
her face and body with clear malformations. It was a horrible thing. It

454
00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:52.440
was so much fear that I screamed
at my grandmother with all my might every

455
00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:57.920
time she tried to throw that witch
at me. I used to beat up

456
00:37:57.920 --> 00:38:00.519
screaming. When my grandmother came and
looked at me like I was, she

457
00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:05.519
told me not to be afraid,
because it was all a hallucination. I

458
00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:09.599
saw her so real, in fact, she could even smell her nasty animal

459
00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:15.119
pestilence. Wet for a long time, my grandmother was praying the next morning.

460
00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:19.280
When I woke up, I felt
a little better. I said goodbye

461
00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:23.679
to my grandparents, asking them to
be very careful, and I promised them

462
00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:27.800
I' d be back soon.
I returned to my city still with symptoms.

463
00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:32.320
The next two nights I had a
hard time. I was looking at

464
00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:37.960
an owl inside my room on the
third night, everything got worse, the

465
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:40.039
bird, it became the witch and
I wanted to get hold of it.

466
00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:45.440
It' s all in one attempt. I was so scared. I went

467
00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:50.199
with a healer who recommended me to
do a clean against the shock I had

468
00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:54.360
and so I got better. What
I couldn' t take away was the

469
00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:59.519
terrible fear I had of birds.
It was so much that I didn'

470
00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:04.920
t even dare to leave the house
after three sweeps of the healer and seeing

471
00:39:05.239 --> 00:39:08.639
it didn' t get better,
he told me that I had to go

472
00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:15.719
back to the ranch to face my
fears, because if I wasn' t

473
00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:16.239
going to be affected forever, I
planned the trip for the December holidays.

474
00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:23.920
But a few weeks before my grandparents
died with my parents. We went to

475
00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:29.119
bury them for some people we knew
they hadn' t even been sick.

476
00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:37.159
During his funerals, several owls appeared
or those strange white birds who watched us

477
00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:43.079
carefully, especially me when we arrived
at the small pantheon. That' s

478
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:46.199
exactly where their graves would be.
Other birds were already waiting for them as

479
00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:52.000
if they wanted to make sure my
grandparents had died. At the end,

480
00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:55.960
they flew up. After the funeral, we went to the ranch to close

481
00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:00.880
everything and return to the city.
Just then we realized that there were no

482
00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:07.559
animals anymore. We asked among acquaintances, but none could give a reason.

483
00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:12.920
One of them approached me and asked
me never to leave the ranch because there

484
00:40:13.039 --> 00:40:16.960
was someone who had always wanted it, but my grandfather refused to sell it

485
00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:22.159
to him. Maybe it was the
one my grandfather was having trouble with.

486
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:28.159
The first time I returned to the
ranch was a totally desolate place. He

487
00:40:28.239 --> 00:40:34.079
seemed to have many years in abandonment
with the few people I spoke to were

488
00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:38.320
fearful. They said they were haunted
lands and nests of strange birds who whistled

489
00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:45.400
at night. Over the years.
I had several offers to sell, but,

490
00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:51.239
by the memory of my grandparents,
I have still refused to date.

491
00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:53.519
Being an older person, I'
m giving him a ride to the ranch.

492
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:58.440
From time to time the house is
about to fall the o and the

493
00:40:58.519 --> 00:41:00.800
tree in or s to n n
o where the owls stood is totally dry.

494
00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:07.039
When I go there, I never
stay at night. I think I

495
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:19.320
' m still afraid of those birds, four tombs of the pantheon. This

496
00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:23.519
that I dare to share happened to
me when I was about to turn twenty

497
00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:27.840
years old with no more job options
in the village. I volunteered to be

498
00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:31.960
the caretaker of the pantheon, a
rather ancient place with tombs over one hundred

499
00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:37.559
and fifty years old. When they
knew in my house that I would spend

500
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.480
much of the days in the pantheon
as a manager, they forbade me,

501
00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:45.639
but as I could I convinced them
it was either that or being without doing

502
00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:50.440
anything in the house. For a
town like mine, the pantheon was large,

503
00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:55.519
because there they buried the dead of
all the nearby rancheries and even smaller

504
00:41:55.559 --> 00:42:01.039
villages that were only a few kilometers
away. I omit the name of my

505
00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:08.480
people because that pantheon to date is
open. There are buried prominent people,

506
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:14.840
but it was also always said that
the remains of witches and witches who in

507
00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:20.880
life did evil. These tombs,
they said, the old people of the

508
00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:24.280
village were lost among the dead,
without names or signs to identify them.

509
00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:30.280
Since I was in charge of the
pantheon there for one thousand nine hundred and

510
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:35.039
seventy- six, there were already
those old and forgotten tombs, to which

511
00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:37.679
no one visited. From that first
day, the former pantheoner brought me to

512
00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:43.320
the attention of the strange things that
were going on there, especially during the

513
00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:47.199
dark nights. He assured me that
sometimes a woman' s heartbreaking screams were

514
00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:52.280
heard, but that such cries came
from inside her grave, and on some

515
00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:58.480
occasions the father had gone to sprinkle
holy water on her and stopped listening.

516
00:42:58.519 --> 00:42:59.920
Despite. But, but, or, but, or, s O?

517
00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:06.480
Then it began again the Puritans of
the people said that this woman was punished

518
00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:09.880
by God for getting rid of her
son before he was born. You could

519
00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:15.159
also see the spirit of a child
running and doing mischief. He bounced the

520
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:21.800
ball against the wall of the small
room where we rested and sometimes his laughter

521
00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:24.719
was heard. Sometimes he also knocked
on the door. Already early in the

522
00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:30.800
morning, he told me that there
were goblins that manifested themselves in the form

523
00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:35.320
of mice or bats, that they
stole the black things and cats that leaped

524
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:38.880
between the trees as possessed, while
their eyes changed their color. Besides,

525
00:43:38.960 --> 00:43:45.000
the nights were colder than in the
village. This and many more terrifying things

526
00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:51.800
often happened inside the pantheon, especially
in the early morning. The old pantheoner

527
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:55.400
paused before telling me that the worst
frights were not given by the dead.

528
00:43:57.400 --> 00:44:01.039
What I had to take care of
was witches. They were constantly getting into

529
00:44:01.159 --> 00:44:06.000
the pantheon to do their black and
ritual work. In the late hours of

530
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:10.280
the night, fireballs fell, but
that light didn' t burn. Besides,

531
00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:15.239
it was very bright when that happened, I was stressed by that old

532
00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:21.639
man who had to hide me,
just as he always did so as not

533
00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:25.480
to be attacked by those perverse women. Witches usually entered the pantheon to bury

534
00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:31.119
jobs inside the tombs, burrowed the
earth, and introduced all kinds of things

535
00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:37.360
bottled with hairs, chickens, toads, and other already worked animals. No

536
00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:43.159
one in charge had dared to tell
them something for fear of being haunted,

537
00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:47.440
but there was a tomb especially to
which these women did not approach out of

538
00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:52.719
fear or respect. For the same
reason, this tomb was always neglected.

539
00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:59.480
At that moment it took me to
meet her still until that moment I was

540
00:44:59.599 --> 00:45:04.679
still incredulous of what that gentleman assured
me. We walked a few minutes between

541
00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:08.440
the graves, most of them in
abandonment. That grave was to the end

542
00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:15.000
of the pantheon. Upon arriving I
saw that sadly it was just a pile

543
00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:20.079
of dry land, but it looked
strange, had no cross or name and

544
00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:24.199
was almost covered with grown grass.
As I approached, there was a strange

545
00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:30.039
feeling that at that moment I could
not understand what the old gravedigger was.

546
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:35.760
He told me in a warning tone
that I should never walk around, because

547
00:45:35.840 --> 00:45:38.960
the witch could catch my spirit and
disturb me for the rest of my days.

548
00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:44.000
That tomb, according to the old
man, had a strange power.

549
00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:49.480
It was from a powerful witch who
had been buried alive because they could never

550
00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:52.519
kill her. Despite all the attempts, as well as that there were three

551
00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:58.239
other tombs. He told me he' d show them to me later,

552
00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:01.360
because it was also a business.
Many people from elsewhere came asking about those

553
00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:08.920
graves and paying to find them.
Being there they did strange rituals where they

554
00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:14.360
asked for perverse favors. He warned
me that when that happened, I would

555
00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:19.800
hide in the room until it was
all over, because dark forces were unleashed.

556
00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:22.960
The first night I was left alone
in the pantheon I didn' t

557
00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:27.440
leave the little room full of nerves. I kept looking out the window every

558
00:46:27.639 --> 00:46:32.719
time I heard a noise no matter
how insignificant this one was. He looked

559
00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:38.159
at the pantheon as a dark place
from where a dead man would rise at

560
00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:42.760
any moment. At that time it
was the worst night I' d ever

561
00:46:42.760 --> 00:46:46.440
had. I confess I was about
to leave for my home from the nerves

562
00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:52.840
I had. The worst thing about
that night was when I heard a cat

563
00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:57.239
' s mauling very close to where
I was. Later, that animal scratched

564
00:46:57.320 --> 00:47:01.400
the door and made the attempt to
talk about remembering it irritables my blood to

565
00:47:01.480 --> 00:47:07.480
this day. That' s how
time passed. I heard some howling screams

566
00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:13.480
and even the crying of a child
seemed horrifying to me, but I got

567
00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:19.679
used to all that one night as
I walked through the pantheon, already to

568
00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:22.119
go to rest, I noticed something
unusual. In the distance. Between the

569
00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:28.800
shadows of the tombstones, the crosses
and the old trees via three figures moved

570
00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:35.039
with stealth as if they were hiding
or looking for something. At first I

571
00:47:35.079 --> 00:47:39.199
thought they might be vandals or youths
from the village playing to scare each other.

572
00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:45.280
It was the first time I'
d been lighting up with the oil

573
00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:49.599
lamp, with all the precautions.
I went to talk to them and ask

574
00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:54.320
them in a good way to leave
the pantheon, but those figures became barely

575
00:47:54.400 --> 00:47:59.880
perceptible shadows that were lost among the
tombs I did not find them again.

576
00:48:00.360 --> 00:48:06.119
It was like they disappeared I checked
up the trees. I looked for a

577
00:48:06.199 --> 00:48:10.559
well where they could hide and nothing. I scoured the place several times until

578
00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:15.920
I returned to the room. I
was nervous, but watchful the rest of

579
00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:21.320
the night in case they came back
again, but nothing strange. It was

580
00:48:21.320 --> 00:48:23.559
hours later that I fell asleep hoping
that it wouldn' t happen again.

581
00:48:25.079 --> 00:48:30.639
The next morning I checked the sector
where those people surrounded me. It was

582
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:37.320
very close to the strange tomb.
Many barefoot footprints could be seen around him.

583
00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:43.119
That was it. Apparently, they
hadn' t made a mess They

584
00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:45.000
hadn' t even gotten close.
What I did find odd was that some

585
00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:52.079
of those prints were black as coal. During the day, the few visitors

586
00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:55.880
seemed suspicious to me. I was
trying to figure out if they were the

587
00:48:55.920 --> 00:49:00.119
ones who got into the pantheon that
night. Some of them I didn'

588
00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:06.400
t lose sight of until they left, but they were just my nerves because

589
00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:10.119
there was no reason to behave like
that. The next night I was sitting

590
00:49:10.239 --> 00:49:15.920
outside the room. It would be
like eleven I unexpectedly looked like a fireball

591
00:49:16.079 --> 00:49:22.400
fell into the pantheon, very close
to where the old tombs were. While

592
00:49:22.440 --> 00:49:25.039
looking at her, I got up
from the chair. When the light went

593
00:49:25.079 --> 00:49:30.119
out, two other balls fell in
the same place, thinking that someone had

594
00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:36.480
thrown them out and that soon the
dry sack would burn. I went over

595
00:49:36.480 --> 00:49:40.079
there to check me out. About
50 meters away when the fire went out

596
00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:46.440
leaving everything in the dark as if
nothing happened. I stopped for a few

597
00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:52.039
seconds without understanding what was going on. In that I saw them again were

598
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:57.360
three silhouettes that were advancing quickly to
the forgotten section of the pantheon. Again,

599
00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:00.639
I went after them, but there
was something about the way they moved

600
00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:07.480
that made me stop. It wasn' t normal. They seemed to float

601
00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:10.039
on the dry grass of the pantheon. Despite seeing that, I decided to

602
00:50:10.079 --> 00:50:15.199
follow them away, hiding behind the
graves and getting as close as I could.

603
00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:21.519
They reached such an ancient part of
the pantheon, where inscriptions on the

604
00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:27.239
stones could hardly be read and some
tombs no longer had crosses. They stood

605
00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:31.840
in front of the tomb that belonged
to the witch and snuck in like that

606
00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:37.079
for a few minutes. Apparently they
were praying. Then they laid their hands

607
00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:40.599
on the heap of earth that covered
the tomb and began digging with their hands.

608
00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:45.599
They were doing it in desperation.
His fingers were sinking into the earth

609
00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:51.239
as if it were wet sand.
What surprised me was not only the superhuman

610
00:50:51.280 --> 00:50:57.719
speed with which they removed the earth, but the sound of a constant murmur

611
00:50:57.800 --> 00:51:04.199
that looked like a cane. I
was trying to identify them, but everything

612
00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:09.079
was so dark and I was so
far away that it wasn' t possible

613
00:51:09.119 --> 00:51:15.480
for me at the time I remembered
all the things and warnings of the previous

614
00:51:15.519 --> 00:51:19.800
gravedigger yet I refused to accept that
what I was looking at were witches.

615
00:51:19.840 --> 00:51:23.840
After a few minutes, one of
them drew an object from that tomb.

616
00:51:23.880 --> 00:51:28.119
I couldn' t see it well
It was small. Maybe the size of

617
00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:32.000
a hand, I got a little
closer. They were still far away.

618
00:51:32.039 --> 00:51:38.119
The three figures stood up and bowed
to the open tomb. Then, among

619
00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:43.480
all with their hands, they dragged
the earth and began to fill again the

620
00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:49.039
well that they had done until they
left everything in place stealthily, I came

621
00:51:49.119 --> 00:51:52.440
a little closer to continue looking at
what I could perhaps came closer to the

622
00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:59.039
account, because those women felt that
someone was watching them. They turned their

623
00:51:59.199 --> 00:52:02.280
heads wherever it happened to me.
Fined as soon as I could. I

624
00:52:02.320 --> 00:52:07.559
hid behind a stone cross. They
walked through the graves looking for me.

625
00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:12.880
When they were only a few meters
from me, I could clearly see their

626
00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:16.320
faces under the pale moonlight, I
drowned a cry as I looked at them.

627
00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:22.920
One of them had her face perversely
disfigured. It looked horrible as if

628
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:28.920
the meat melted and stuck back into
grooves and grotesque folds. I' ve

629
00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:32.079
never seen such a thing in my
worst nightmares. Every step he took,

630
00:52:32.679 --> 00:52:38.159
small pieces of skin were falling off. Besides, it smelled awful like it

631
00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:43.960
was burned. The other two had
the skin of their pale faces, their

632
00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:50.239
eyes sunk deep into their orbits.
They shone between darkness, transmitting not only

633
00:52:50.280 --> 00:52:54.559
evil, but a desire to do
harm. They were so close to me,

634
00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:59.800
they gave me terrible chills. One
of them, the most in rra,

635
00:52:59.960 --> 00:53:05.000
had arms much larger than normal and
her legs so arched and deformed that

636
00:53:05.039 --> 00:53:09.599
they seemed to break at every step
she took. Just looking at her made

637
00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:15.480
me afraid. The mouths, perhaps
the most terrifying of their faces, were

638
00:53:15.480 --> 00:53:22.079
large. They were permanently twisted in
some kind of macabre smile. Sharp irregular

639
00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:28.119
teeth like those of a wild animal. They looked out between thin, dry

640
00:53:28.119 --> 00:53:32.599
lips. They looked like dirt-
stained blades. The hair of those horrible

641
00:53:32.679 --> 00:53:38.480
women fell on strands as filthy and
worn out as if they had been plucked

642
00:53:38.480 --> 00:53:44.000
out. His worn- out dark
clothes crawled down the floor. I was

643
00:53:44.079 --> 00:53:47.320
a fool if I didn' t
accept that those women were true witches.

644
00:53:49.320 --> 00:53:53.519
It was then when full of terror
that I turned around and snooped through the

645
00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:59.880
graves, I moved away from there
as quickly as I could stealthily trying not

646
00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:05.280
to make noise, knowing that those
women were not just intruders in that sacred

647
00:54:05.400 --> 00:54:09.119
place, but entities belonging to the
world of the occult and the forbidden,

648
00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:15.400
capable of manipulating the shadows at their
whim I felt in danger. Without turning

649
00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:20.679
back, I ran the graves back
to the small room, where I stood

650
00:54:20.760 --> 00:54:27.119
firmly securing the door behind me.
As I entered with the quilt that I

651
00:54:27.199 --> 00:54:30.440
had to cover myself with the cold, I covered the window as much as

652
00:54:30.639 --> 00:54:37.880
I could and turned off the lamp
by remaining in complete darkness, holding my

653
00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:39.960
breath, I remained silent waiting for
the worst. It hadn' t been

654
00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:45.119
many minutes when I heard the door
pushed was too light. Then they touched

655
00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:50.559
the glass in the window. My
heart accelerated and my lips dried up.

656
00:54:51.159 --> 00:54:55.480
At once they knocked harder on the
door asking me to open. A snoring

657
00:54:55.559 --> 00:55:01.440
voice was heard. I identified her
as an old woman, trying to trick

658
00:55:01.519 --> 00:55:06.920
me with a false tenderness. They
pushed the door again with intent to open

659
00:55:06.920 --> 00:55:12.239
it. At times they stopped doing
it and then pushed it harder. While

660
00:55:12.360 --> 00:55:16.280
they were doing it, I could
hear them humping that creepy tune. What

661
00:55:16.280 --> 00:55:21.480
was most nervous about me was knowing
that the door was so old that I

662
00:55:21.599 --> 00:55:28.360
wouldn' t stand much as time
passed. I was more afraid because I

663
00:55:28.639 --> 00:55:31.719
heard one of them walking through the
roof. I didn' t understand how

664
00:55:31.800 --> 00:55:37.119
it could have gone up, since
they were all deformed old women. Another

665
00:55:37.239 --> 00:55:42.199
thing I had to endure was the
horrible smell of burning that invaded the whole

666
00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:46.880
room. I felt desperate. I
endured for a long time all those women

667
00:55:46.960 --> 00:55:53.199
' s attempts to get in until
unexpectedly the noises disappeared. I spent the

668
00:55:53.280 --> 00:56:00.639
rest of the night wondering if what
happened was real. I looked at the

669
00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:04.599
dawn when the sun began to illuminate
the statues and crosses of the pantheon.

670
00:56:05.119 --> 00:56:09.079
I got out of the room.
Everything around was full of footprints. Some

671
00:56:09.119 --> 00:56:14.760
of them were black. I remembered
the witch who smelled like a burn in

672
00:56:14.880 --> 00:56:17.400
a while. I went to the
place where I' d seen those horrible

673
00:56:17.400 --> 00:56:22.280
women. There was no sign that
the earth had been removed or that they

674
00:56:22.360 --> 00:56:29.000
had done some ritual, but the
atmosphere felt heavy and there was a feeling

675
00:56:29.079 --> 00:56:35.360
that something sinister had happened. After
noon the old pantheon came to visit me

676
00:56:35.800 --> 00:56:40.239
to show me what the graves of
the other three witches were. We walked

677
00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:45.159
to the end of the pantheon,
to the opposite side of where the strange

678
00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:49.159
tomb was. I was trying to
tell you that I didn' t want

679
00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:50.960
to know anything about what I'
d been through at night anymore. Without

680
00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:54.320
giving me time to talk, he
started telling me briefly the story of those

681
00:56:54.320 --> 00:57:00.320
witches. The first of them was
a witch of cauldrons, of those who

682
00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:07.719
made powerful and dangerous brews that could
kill anyone. That' s why they

683
00:57:07.920 --> 00:57:12.360
had lynched her for hurting a count
of those times over her box. They

684
00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:15.480
put a big iron cross on him
because of their fear that he would leave

685
00:57:15.559 --> 00:57:21.719
his grave to get revenge. That
was the woman who told me she was

686
00:57:21.840 --> 00:57:27.119
screaming at night. That' s
why holy water didn' t help her,

687
00:57:27.719 --> 00:57:30.679
there was no record of her,
neither her age nor her name was

688
00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:34.559
known. When we were in front
of a lot of land and stones,

689
00:57:34.800 --> 00:57:38.400
I knew that that was where I
was totally forgotten. Besides, that tomb

690
00:57:38.559 --> 00:57:45.519
also fired a strange vibrate around it. There were other piles of land that

691
00:57:45.599 --> 00:57:50.199
also lacked a cross. In all
that piece of the pantheon was very marked

692
00:57:50.199 --> 00:57:53.840
the silence. Then we walk to
the opposite side, towards the main fence.

693
00:57:54.320 --> 00:57:59.320
I suspected that the witches were in
the four corners of the panthion n

694
00:57:59.280 --> 00:58:04.119
s maybe and I was suggesting it
because we still had a few meters to

695
00:58:04.679 --> 00:58:08.639
get there and I already felt tense
the tomb was similar to the previous two,

696
00:58:09.400 --> 00:58:13.920
only that this one had no herbs, but, like the others,

697
00:58:14.719 --> 00:58:17.599
it fired bad vibrations. That witch
was accused of having a pact with the

698
00:58:17.639 --> 00:58:22.800
devil. He liked to curse people
and was very effective in hurting them.

699
00:58:23.280 --> 00:58:28.880
They put nails in his jaws to
stop him from throwing all those curses.

700
00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:35.119
Also, with hands and feet tied
with blessed barbed wire, they buried her

701
00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:38.880
face down because of the fear it
caused. It was not known how old

702
00:58:39.400 --> 00:58:45.000
he was in the accounts. Occasions
came people to dance around that pile of

703
00:58:45.039 --> 00:58:50.079
dry land. Immediately from that tomb, there was a dry tree that was

704
00:58:50.119 --> 00:58:54.800
the favorite place for owls and bats. Finally, we walked to the other

705
00:58:54.800 --> 00:58:59.400
end, almost next to the small
room, where he slept. I had

706
00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:04.360
not taken into account that the fence
at that place was a little higher and

707
00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:08.440
that, as a rule, some
black cats mauled at night. His maulings

708
00:59:08.519 --> 00:59:14.159
were different, very similar to a
baby' s cry. This was the

709
00:59:14.280 --> 00:59:19.559
least visited tomb. When we were
in front of her, she smelled a

710
00:59:19.559 --> 00:59:22.679
lot of burning. This witch had
the ability to transform into a fireball and

711
00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:30.079
animals. She was buried without feet
because when she was lynched she was transformed

712
00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:34.320
into a guajolote and did not give
her time to return to her normal state.

713
00:59:35.280 --> 00:59:38.840
With it the four witches were completed, one in every corner of the

714
00:59:38.920 --> 00:59:44.960
pantheon, far from the crosses and
from the visit of the people I no

715
00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:47.960
longer told him anything. To the
old undertaker, but knowing that there were

716
00:59:49.000 --> 00:59:53.840
four witches buried in the pantheon,
I made the decision that that would be

717
00:59:53.920 --> 00:59:59.039
the last night I would spend in
that place before it was dark. I

718
00:59:59.039 --> 01:00:02.960
observed the crosses we had for sale
for new tombs. I stuck a white

719
01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:06.920
cross in the door and tied another
one in front of the room window.

720
01:00:07.679 --> 01:00:12.960
Another one I took with my hands. I figured that would be a terrible

721
01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:17.599
night. It just got dark.
The nerves took over me at the time

722
01:00:17.719 --> 01:00:22.519
I didn' t care about the
job anymore. I wanted the hours to

723
01:00:22.599 --> 01:00:29.519
run soon to get out of there
before nine. I was already locked up

724
01:00:29.519 --> 01:00:35.360
and praying. The minutes were too
slow. My despair was so great that

725
01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:39.719
I repented and cursed the time I
took that job. At about three in

726
01:00:39.760 --> 01:00:45.519
the morning, I heard slow and
heavy steps around the room. I wasn

727
01:00:45.559 --> 01:00:47.840
' t going to open the door
for anything. I only directed the cross

728
01:00:47.920 --> 01:00:52.320
to the window, because to me
it was the weakest point where the witches

729
01:00:52.360 --> 01:00:58.800
could get in if I proposed it. For much of the night, voices,

730
01:00:59.440 --> 01:01:02.840
laughter and even laughter were heard that
were about to disturb my mind,

731
01:01:04.159 --> 01:01:10.000
but I stayed strong until it finally
dawned. It was already half a day

732
01:01:10.079 --> 01:01:15.639
when I encouraged myself to leave the
room. I didn' t find any

733
01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:19.079
prints to prove to me that what
I' ve been hearing was real.

734
01:01:19.840 --> 01:01:24.760
Without hesitation I put my things together
and quit that job, but that old

735
01:01:24.840 --> 01:01:30.920
man told me that I could not
run away any more like that, because

736
01:01:30.960 --> 01:01:34.880
the witches would chase me forever.
He offered to stay with me one last

737
01:01:35.360 --> 01:01:39.639
night and I accepted because I didn' t want to be persecuted all my

738
01:01:39.639 --> 01:01:43.559
life by those witches. That night, every time there was a noise,

739
01:01:43.880 --> 01:01:47.519
I couldn' t help but look
into the four corners of the pantheon where

740
01:01:47.519 --> 01:01:52.760
I never walked. I was wondering
if those witches would come back. Thank

741
01:01:52.760 --> 01:01:57.239
God, that didn' t happen. I wanted to think that it was

742
01:01:57.239 --> 01:02:01.199
only my imagination, but when the
wind was blowing among the arbsles of the

743
01:02:01.280 --> 01:02:07.360
pantheon, it seemed to me to
hear the echo of that strange song and

744
01:02:07.400 --> 01:02:07.360
I could not help but feel chills
so strong that they made me tremble.

745
01:02:08.599 --> 01:02:13.840
After that night I never went back
there, not even to the burial of

746
01:02:13.880 --> 01:02:17.079
my relatives. Those witches are still
there. I think they' ll be

747
01:02:17.119 --> 01:02:30.719
in that old pantheon forever. My
hideout. My name is Beatrice, which

748
01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:35.119
I share with you. It happened
to me when I was nine years old.

749
01:02:35.239 --> 01:02:37.760
I' ve always lived alone with
my mom when I was little.

750
01:02:38.079 --> 01:02:43.719
I' ve never been afraid of
the dark because there was no reason for

751
01:02:43.719 --> 01:02:47.199
that. I was a lonely child, since I had no sisters. I

752
01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:51.840
always played alone, but I didn' t have a problem. I was

753
01:02:51.880 --> 01:02:55.440
used to it. After nine years, things changed in every way, because

754
01:02:55.519 --> 01:03:00.159
I faced the illness of my hand
mom, who had her bedridden for a

755
01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:07.280
few months out of nowhere felt bad. Sometimes she was delirious, talking to

756
01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:13.519
her sisters, they weren' t
there for hours, screaming and arguing the

757
01:03:13.559 --> 01:03:16.239
few times she could get up she
almost destroyed the room. In the house

758
01:03:16.559 --> 01:03:22.840
there was a very strong presence of
something evil, especially at night. I

759
01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:27.920
never looked at anyone. It was
heard that they were dragging their feet from

760
01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:30.880
the front door to my mom'
s room. Days before he died,

761
01:03:31.119 --> 01:03:36.239
he was shouting at me with bad
words and insults, as he had never

762
01:03:36.239 --> 01:03:38.960
done before. Sometimes I did it
with a voice that wasn' t his.

763
01:03:39.119 --> 01:03:45.719
Then I knew what real fear was. I felt alone and unprotected at

764
01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:51.679
the mercy of animals and people.
My favorite place to hide when I was

765
01:03:51.719 --> 01:03:55.679
scared of my mother' s screams
was to get under my bed. One

766
01:03:55.760 --> 01:04:00.320
night, my mom ran away from
me as she said horrible things to me.

767
01:04:00.480 --> 01:04:04.719
Besides, strange noises were heard all
over the house. I couldn'

768
01:04:04.840 --> 01:04:10.199
t stand the fear anymore, but
I couldn' t get out and leave

769
01:04:10.800 --> 01:04:13.639
my mom alone in a strange way. My mother' s sisters, my

770
01:04:13.760 --> 01:04:17.760
aunts, went to visit her hours
before her death. I had a lot

771
01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:20.679
of not seeing them, but they
didn' t even greet me when I

772
01:04:20.679 --> 01:04:25.159
came in. When they left,
I didn' t have time to look

773
01:04:25.280 --> 01:04:29.800
at her alive for the last time
I was already stiff, as if I

774
01:04:29.800 --> 01:04:32.079
had hours of death. I had
to close his eyes and cover his face

775
01:04:32.159 --> 01:04:39.400
because the expression he had was to
give nightmares. The house was filled with

776
01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:43.519
people who, as I understood it, did not visit my mother because they

777
01:04:43.559 --> 01:04:45.960
believed that she was haunted and had
the belief that they could be infected.

778
01:04:46.639 --> 01:04:50.000
At that time. At the age
of nine, I was not enough to

779
01:04:50.039 --> 01:04:56.920
understand what that meant in the wake
there were few people, if perhaps some

780
01:04:56.960 --> 01:05:00.760
ten people, counting mainly on my
aunts, who refused to do a mass

781
01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:06.760
after the funeral, went to sculpt
the house. I never knew they were

782
01:05:06.800 --> 01:05:09.559
looking for me. They didn'
t take me into account at all.

783
01:05:10.800 --> 01:05:14.599
I was still not ten years old
when I had to go through that situation.

784
01:05:15.280 --> 01:05:18.280
Now I had to go live in
a small town where I was going

785
01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:23.239
to be raised by my aunts because
my mom, according to her, had

786
01:05:23.360 --> 01:05:27.159
asked them just before she died.
That day I didn' t think it

787
01:05:27.159 --> 01:05:31.800
was the best news, because my
mom knew that her sisters were very believers

788
01:05:31.840 --> 01:05:35.920
in dark things, as well as
paranormal issues. For the same reason,

789
01:05:36.519 --> 01:05:42.800
I was sure that the stories of
witches and frights would be common in that

790
01:05:42.960 --> 01:05:45.239
house, but what I could do
I would live in fear every day.

791
01:05:45.880 --> 01:05:49.679
They probably wouldn' t mind that. My aunts weren' t going to

792
01:05:49.760 --> 01:05:55.280
change anything else because I came to
live with them. I remember the first

793
01:05:55.360 --> 01:05:59.000
day I entered that house, which
had been my grandmother' s. It

794
01:05:59.039 --> 01:06:02.360
was the same day we buried my
mom. When I got to his old

795
01:06:02.360 --> 01:06:08.360
house, I felt strange. Its
wooden floors and walls filled with black and

796
01:06:08.360 --> 01:06:15.320
white photographs made me feel like we
were in an ancient era. Everything smelled

797
01:06:15.320 --> 01:06:19.559
like moisture. The silence so marked
showed the echo throughout the house, the

798
01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:27.559
furniture and tapestry of the walls were
very careless. I also noticed that all

799
01:06:27.599 --> 01:06:33.639
over the house there were candlelights of
all sizes as well as fairly old lamps.

800
01:06:33.719 --> 01:06:38.719
Being a big house, they gave
me a room for myself next to

801
01:06:38.760 --> 01:06:43.360
my brigid aunt' s room.
My other aunt Jacinta stayed in the main

802
01:06:43.400 --> 01:06:47.400
room, the one that had been
my grandmother' s. During the day,

803
01:06:47.599 --> 01:06:53.559
everything happened normal, something indifferent.
They were nice to me. I

804
01:06:53.599 --> 01:06:57.920
knew I had to make the effort
to get used to living with them and

805
01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:00.519
getting along. When night fell,
I realized that there was something strange in

806
01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:06.559
that house. The whole house plunged
into dense darkness. Despite having electric light.

807
01:07:08.679 --> 01:07:15.159
They lit up with candles making everything
look a lot darker. They gave

808
01:07:15.239 --> 01:07:18.320
me a black robe to sleep on
and they also wore the same color.

809
01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:23.880
They told me never to sleep with
the candle on, I had to turn

810
01:07:23.880 --> 01:07:27.599
it off. When it was too
late at ten o' clock at night,

811
01:07:27.880 --> 01:07:30.599
it wasn' t even nine o' clock and I had already been

812
01:07:30.599 --> 01:07:34.079
sent to sleep. When I was
left alone in that unknown room, then

813
01:07:34.199 --> 01:07:40.119
I was afraid. I could not
sleep because the memories of everything I had

814
01:07:40.239 --> 01:07:45.400
lived tormented me as time passed.
A murmur was heard in the distance.

815
01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:50.679
I stood still. That' s
how I was for a few minutes until

816
01:07:50.760 --> 01:07:56.000
I recognized that voice was my brigid
aunt speaking. She talked to herself because

817
01:07:56.079 --> 01:08:00.000
no one answered her. Sometimes he
laughed r first, but he could laugh

818
01:08:00.119 --> 01:08:05.119
until he broke into laughter. I
was afraid of what I heard, and

819
01:08:05.199 --> 01:08:11.159
I felt like crying lying on the
bed, and I looked to every corner

820
01:08:11.239 --> 01:08:14.960
with the fear of encountering something sinister. That' s how I spent a

821
01:08:15.039 --> 01:08:19.439
lot of the night. When she
stopped laughing, I rested and fell asleep

822
01:08:19.479 --> 01:08:25.319
the next morning. Discreetly, my
aunt Jacinta asked me if I had heard

823
01:08:25.359 --> 01:08:30.680
anything strange at night. Trying to
trick her. I said no. All

824
01:08:30.760 --> 01:08:35.680
day long, both they and I
act normal. The next night was especially

825
01:08:35.760 --> 01:08:41.840
quiet. I missed the sound of
the nocturnal birds that used to sing near

826
01:08:41.920 --> 01:08:45.760
my window when I lived in my
house, because there, neither day nor

827
01:08:45.800 --> 01:08:50.159
night, insects or birds were heard
as if it were a dead place.

828
01:08:50.880 --> 01:08:56.319
I didn' t know when I
fell asleep after midnight. Maybe I woke

829
01:08:56.359 --> 01:09:00.479
up feeling cold as if something had
absorbed all the heat in my room.

830
01:09:00.960 --> 01:09:04.680
I got up because something was heard
in the yard. I was going to

831
01:09:04.760 --> 01:09:10.399
open the window to look out,
but deep down I watched a woman walk.

832
01:09:11.079 --> 01:09:15.279
I thought she was one of my
aunts, but after seeing her well,

833
01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:18.920
I didn' t know her.
That woman was taller than either of

834
01:09:18.960 --> 01:09:25.479
us. In addition, he had
white hair and so long that he almost

835
01:09:25.560 --> 01:09:29.359
dragged him down the floor. He
was dressed in white and was barefoot.

836
01:09:30.720 --> 01:09:35.039
After looking at her for a few
minutes I trembled because I found a resemblance

837
01:09:35.079 --> 01:09:39.239
with my mom, but it didn' t match the height either. A

838
01:09:39.319 --> 01:09:44.279
brief memory came to me. That
woman looked like my grandmother. I wasn

839
01:09:44.319 --> 01:09:47.079
' t quite sure because I was, like, five years old. Last

840
01:09:47.159 --> 01:09:53.760
time I saw her. I was
hoping you' d turn around to recognize

841
01:09:53.880 --> 01:09:57.199
her, but she never did.
That woman got lost in the dark.

842
01:09:57.880 --> 01:10:02.039
I could assure you that if it
was her, the problem was knowing that

843
01:10:02.159 --> 01:10:06.199
my grandmother was several years dead.
For the first time I felt a cold

844
01:10:06.239 --> 01:10:11.079
that ran all over my body.
The only place I found to get myself

845
01:10:11.159 --> 01:10:15.920
safe was under the bed. I
stayed there for hours. My whole body

846
01:10:15.960 --> 01:10:19.760
trembled with cold or fear. I
never dared get out of where I was

847
01:10:19.800 --> 01:10:25.279
until dawn. After breakfast, I
started to see the many photographs they had

848
01:10:25.359 --> 01:10:30.279
until I found one of my grandmother' s. To my surprise it was

849
01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:34.279
very similar to the woman I had
seen at night until I brought a pretty

850
01:10:34.399 --> 01:10:40.359
similar dress. My aunts took care
of their things all morning. I took

851
01:10:40.399 --> 01:10:43.680
advantage of it to get to know
the courtyard. I was walking around where

852
01:10:43.840 --> 01:10:47.119
I saw that woman to see if
she found anything weird. Upon seeing me,

853
01:10:47.479 --> 01:10:51.399
my aunt Jacinta yelled at me to
get in and never walk again.

854
01:10:51.520 --> 01:10:56.960
He told me that this place was
the last time my grandmother had walked and

855
01:10:57.079 --> 01:11:01.119
they didn' t want her bones
to be erased. They seemed strange to

856
01:11:01.119 --> 01:11:05.720
me. His reaction I obeyed without
asking anything. Already at night I slept

857
01:11:05.760 --> 01:11:10.319
in fear. I closed the curtain
so I wouldn' t see the courtyard.

858
01:11:10.800 --> 01:11:14.600
I persected myself as my mother had
taught me and pressed my eyes.

859
01:11:15.319 --> 01:11:18.239
I remembered that I had not turned
off the candle and it would soon be

860
01:11:18.239 --> 01:11:23.960
ten o' clock. I was
going to get up when I heard that

861
01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:27.880
someone stood in front of the door
of the room, I felt that fear

862
01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:30.319
of the night before. That'
s why I hit the ground. With

863
01:11:30.359 --> 01:11:34.880
the dim candlelight I could see that
something was not right. The door knob

864
01:11:34.920 --> 01:11:42.640
started spinning. At first I thought
my eyes were cheating on me, but

865
01:11:42.720 --> 01:11:47.760
then I heard a murmuring of words
with an opaque tone that I didn'

866
01:11:47.800 --> 01:11:51.039
t understand paying more attention, I
realized that the voice of an old woman

867
01:11:51.039 --> 01:11:56.760
was saying my name. Listening to
that, my blood was freezing as slowly

868
01:11:57.119 --> 01:12:00.680
as I could, I slipped under
my bed. The heart was beating so

869
01:12:00.920 --> 01:12:04.840
loud that I was afraid it could
be heard from my hiding place I looked

870
01:12:04.840 --> 01:12:10.000
at the door. I had not
heard any noise, but it was already

871
01:12:10.000 --> 01:12:14.279
open. The candlelight drew long shadows
and I saw barefoot feet standing in front

872
01:12:14.359 --> 01:12:18.920
of me were pale, wrinkled and
crooked feet as if they had walked between

873
01:12:19.000 --> 01:12:26.760
stones and thorns. They were so
dry they had deep cracks. I turned

874
01:12:26.840 --> 01:12:30.600
back until I hit the wall Whoever
was was also lit up with a candlestick

875
01:12:30.920 --> 01:12:36.920
that occasionally dropped drops of wax.
He started moving around my room. By

876
01:12:36.960 --> 01:12:43.079
gnashing some boards on the floor,
I could hear the feet moving heavily through

877
01:12:43.119 --> 01:12:45.920
the wood. I didn' t
even dare to breathe out of fear of

878
01:12:46.640 --> 01:12:51.119
finding my mind is treacherous. It
made me imagine my frigid aunt transformed into

879
01:12:51.199 --> 01:12:57.479
a horrible creature, with huge fingernails
and big teeth sticking out of a pretty

880
01:12:57.600 --> 01:13:03.159
big mouth. An effort to look
through the darkness at those feet that walked

881
01:13:03.239 --> 01:13:10.680
slowly and aimlessly. The woman they
belonged to kept muttering things that made my

882
01:13:10.720 --> 01:13:16.079
head hurt. Those footprints headed toward
the door. While I was on my

883
01:13:16.399 --> 01:13:20.279
way out, I was dragging my
feet so ugly that the sound was ringing

884
01:13:20.279 --> 01:13:25.239
in my ears. It sounded like
they were dragging dry branches down a stone

885
01:13:25.319 --> 01:13:30.279
road. I covered my ears and
closed my eyes for a long time until

886
01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:34.239
I fell asleep. The next day
I couldn' t stand it anymore.

887
01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:39.760
I told my aunts what I'
d seen. They looked at each other.

888
01:13:40.199 --> 01:13:44.600
Then they told me not to play
with it and to respect the eternal

889
01:13:44.640 --> 01:13:47.600
rest of my mother and grandmother.
I didn' t know if they didn

890
01:13:47.640 --> 01:13:50.640
' t believe me or try to
avoid talking about it. The next two

891
01:13:50.680 --> 01:13:56.960
nights passed quietly. I couldn'
t sleep well, but on the third

892
01:13:57.039 --> 01:14:01.039
night again I heard my brigid aunt
was talking. I was filled with fear

893
01:14:01.520 --> 01:14:05.279
because this time I was talking to
someone, maybe my grandmother. The most

894
01:14:05.359 --> 01:14:12.520
terrifying thing was to hear that she
answered him by overcoming my fears slowly.

895
01:14:12.880 --> 01:14:15.720
I got out of the room.
I walked a few steps to the door

896
01:14:15.800 --> 01:14:19.800
of my aunt' s room.
I stuck my ear on the door to

897
01:14:19.880 --> 01:14:24.600
check what I was hearing. It
wasn' t even five seconds. They

898
01:14:24.640 --> 01:14:29.760
both stopped talking. Apparently they realized
my presence because I heard they walked to

899
01:14:29.800 --> 01:14:34.199
the door. I reacted soon.
I ran to my room, but I

900
01:14:34.239 --> 01:14:39.640
couldn' t close the door.
I just walked in and got under the

901
01:14:39.680 --> 01:14:44.279
bed, afraid of being discovered,
someone came in and spoke to me by

902
01:14:44.279 --> 01:14:48.199
my name. At first I did
not recognize that voice, but when I

903
01:14:48.520 --> 01:14:54.600
spoke to myself again I knew that
she was my brigid aunt with an annoying

904
01:14:54.680 --> 01:14:56.600
tone, asked me to leave where
I was out of fear. I stayed

905
01:14:56.720 --> 01:15:01.399
under the bed hurrying the pass went
and turned off the candle. Suddenly she

906
01:15:01.520 --> 01:15:06.159
crouched, stretched out what looked like
her hand shoved her under the bed groping

907
01:15:06.399 --> 01:15:13.239
for me. His fingers looked like
dry branches that scratched me trying to grab

908
01:15:13.239 --> 01:15:16.600
me. He did it on the
one hand, then on the other,

909
01:15:16.600 --> 01:15:20.640
without getting it. I was terrified, but without shouting. At first,

910
01:15:20.720 --> 01:15:26.760
that woman laughed at me. She
couldn' t reach me because she couldn

911
01:15:26.800 --> 01:15:30.079
' t fit under the bed.
I never stopped praying with every word.

912
01:15:30.279 --> 01:15:36.399
That hand retreated as if the prayers
burned it and prevented it from approaching for

913
01:15:36.439 --> 01:15:44.279
eternal minutes. We were practically struggling
like this until he finally cursed me and

914
01:15:44.279 --> 01:15:47.920
stopped. I felt like something terrible
was going to happen from that night.

915
01:15:48.680 --> 01:15:53.279
I knew that hand wasn' t
from any of my aunts, or my

916
01:15:53.319 --> 01:15:58.840
mom, it wasn' t even
my grandmother in my mind I thought it

917
01:15:58.960 --> 01:16:02.239
might be something as terrible as a
witch. There was also the possibility that

918
01:16:02.600 --> 01:16:08.600
my two days would be transformed at
night into something horrible and, to my

919
01:16:08.640 --> 01:16:13.479
misfortune, I was there living in
his house. I really didn' t

920
01:16:13.600 --> 01:16:16.680
know what else to think anymore.
I persected myself many times as I asked

921
01:16:16.720 --> 01:16:21.560
God to help me at that time
I had the intention of running away,

922
01:16:23.279 --> 01:16:27.039
but I still did not know anyone
in that town. I didn' t

923
01:16:27.119 --> 01:16:30.760
know where I was going. All
I could think of was locking myself in

924
01:16:30.800 --> 01:16:34.720
the room and getting back under the
bed. I' d stay there for

925
01:16:34.800 --> 01:16:40.640
the rest of my life. The
next day, my aunts weren' t

926
01:16:40.680 --> 01:16:45.079
expected to face them. I took
the courage to ask them to tell me

927
01:16:45.279 --> 01:16:48.279
the whole truth of what was going
on there, or I would scream to

928
01:16:48.279 --> 01:16:50.680
be heard by the neighbors. I' d leave the house. Besides,

929
01:16:50.880 --> 01:16:57.000
I' d tell whoever found me
that they were witches. My aunt Jacinta

930
01:16:57.159 --> 01:17:00.119
sat in the living room, asked
me to listen to her very serenely.

931
01:17:00.359 --> 01:17:04.600
She started telling me that none of
them were witches. Neither was my grandmother.

932
01:17:05.399 --> 01:17:11.039
While I was talking, my other
aunt looked very nervous. Sometimes I

933
01:17:11.279 --> 01:17:15.840
interrupted the talk without so many turns. I learned that one of them years

934
01:17:15.960 --> 01:17:21.520
ago had turned to a witch to
ask for a black job of witchcraft a

935
01:17:21.800 --> 01:17:27.000
tie or something, but the price
was so high that, after the job

936
01:17:27.039 --> 01:17:30.479
had been done, she could not
pay him. Since then, the witch

937
01:17:30.560 --> 01:17:35.000
had been around her house and began
threatening to harm the weakest family members.

938
01:17:36.199 --> 01:17:41.239
They were hiding in the dark.
That' s why they didn' t

939
01:17:41.239 --> 01:17:44.560
turn on the light. My grandmother
didn' t believe in those things and

940
01:17:44.680 --> 01:17:47.840
she bothered to spend the nights in
darkness. She always slept with a lamp

941
01:17:47.880 --> 01:17:51.680
on. That' s why the
witch found it so easy. She was

942
01:17:51.800 --> 01:17:58.560
the first to hurt him. One
morning she died without a diagnosed disease.

943
01:17:59.239 --> 01:18:03.159
Apparently, the witch didn' t
settle for that. I was trying to

944
01:18:03.239 --> 01:18:08.079
hurt them, but for some reason
I couldn' t see them in the

945
01:18:08.079 --> 01:18:13.079
dark. Then he looked for my
mom and what happened happened. According to

946
01:18:13.119 --> 01:18:15.399
my aunt' s version. If
they don' t take me to the

947
01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:20.239
house with them, I' m
probably dead too. When that talk ended,

948
01:18:20.479 --> 01:18:25.319
I realized that because of her,
my mom had died in such a

949
01:18:25.399 --> 01:18:30.640
horrible way and not deserved it.
Besides, now I was in danger looking

950
01:18:30.720 --> 01:18:33.359
at my brigid aunt' s attitude. I knew it was her fault.

951
01:18:34.800 --> 01:18:39.199
By understanding that, I told them
that I would leave the house, look

952
01:18:39.199 --> 01:18:42.640
for my dad to go with him, and so I would be safe.

953
01:18:43.279 --> 01:18:47.319
No objection. They agreed. Obviously, it wasn' t that easy to

954
01:18:47.319 --> 01:18:50.640
find him. For the same reason, I had to spend one last night

955
01:18:50.640 --> 01:18:57.840
with them. That night we agreed
that we' d all sleep in the

956
01:18:57.880 --> 01:19:03.079
same room. Before the night we
locked ourselves in, we didn' t

957
01:19:03.199 --> 01:19:10.720
set off any sails and we stayed
in the most complete silence, feeling the

958
01:19:10.800 --> 01:19:14.159
passage of time, how the hours
passed and nothing happened. My brigid aunt

959
01:19:14.359 --> 01:19:18.600
started talking softly. He said he
was tired of living hiding in the dark,

960
01:19:19.199 --> 01:19:24.039
lit a candle and left the room. Despite the opposition of us.

961
01:19:25.520 --> 01:19:30.439
After a while. We heard her
arguing heatedly with cries. I was telling

962
01:19:30.760 --> 01:19:33.680
her that with the deaths of my
grandmother and my mom, I was already

963
01:19:33.680 --> 01:19:38.039
paying off the debt. He shouted
at him several times that he would no

964
01:19:38.039 --> 01:19:42.000
longer be afraid of him. Then
my aunt came in quickly asking me to

965
01:19:42.600 --> 01:19:45.560
hide as usual I got under the
bed. I didn' t see where

966
01:19:45.640 --> 01:19:49.399
they hid anymore. As I was
about to cry, I began to pray

967
01:19:49.399 --> 01:19:54.560
in silence, imagining that woman would
come in for me. Despite the darkness,

968
01:19:54.800 --> 01:19:59.800
I could see someone came into the
room. At that moment, some

969
01:20:00.199 --> 01:20:04.119
things fell out of place. There
was no need to see her or guess,

970
01:20:04.600 --> 01:20:09.079
because she could only be the witch. She was standing for a few

971
01:20:09.159 --> 01:20:13.560
seconds I could hear her growl.
Then he spit on the ground as a

972
01:20:13.560 --> 01:20:17.439
sign of contempt. The sound was
deaf, heavy as if his saliva were

973
01:20:17.520 --> 01:20:23.960
more than just liquid. My eyes
burned and I felt a terrible cold at

974
01:20:24.000 --> 01:20:29.000
the time, a cold that got
into my bones. When nothing was heard,

975
01:20:29.279 --> 01:20:31.600
I knew he was gone. For
the first time since I was in

976
01:20:31.680 --> 01:20:35.960
that house. It was heard that
some dogs howled. Dawn didn' t

977
01:20:36.000 --> 01:20:42.319
take long to get with him.
Daylight went through the window. So my

978
01:20:42.319 --> 01:20:46.960
fear began to dissipate. My aunts
came from where they were hiding with frightened

979
01:20:47.000 --> 01:20:53.159
faces. I looked at the floor
looking for the place where the witch had

980
01:20:53.159 --> 01:20:56.840
spit. On the old wooden floor. There was only one ball of hair.

981
01:20:57.479 --> 01:21:02.239
Outside of that everything was in place
as if nothing had happened. We

982
01:21:02.279 --> 01:21:06.000
got out of the room, we
fixed my stuff, and they left me

983
01:21:06.039 --> 01:21:10.680
at the bus station. That day
was the last time I looked at my

984
01:21:10.800 --> 01:21:15.279
aunts. I came to live with
my dad' s family because he didn

985
01:21:15.359 --> 01:21:19.119
' t want to see me.
Everything was normal, but with my arrival

986
01:21:19.199 --> 01:21:24.880
in that house they began to hear
strange noises that had never been heard.

987
01:21:25.640 --> 01:21:29.600
I didn' t mean anything,
but apparently, the witch had followed me

988
01:21:29.680 --> 01:21:33.640
to my new home. The first
night he looked at the shadow of a

989
01:21:33.680 --> 01:21:39.159
woman dressed in white, with hair
so long that it almost dragged him to

990
01:21:39.159 --> 01:21:44.600
the ground, and he was barefoot
and babbling ununderstandable words. They were all

991
01:21:44.880 --> 01:21:48.319
adults in that house. Then they
took it easy, asked me questions,

992
01:21:48.840 --> 01:21:54.760
and I had to confess that a
dangerous witch was following me. Maybe we

993
01:21:54.840 --> 01:21:59.399
' d have to dive into the
dark, at least at night to,

994
01:21:59.119 --> 01:22:03.039
just like we did at my aunts' house. So we did and nothing

995
01:22:03.199 --> 01:22:09.119
happened that night, but my new
family was not willing to go through.

996
01:22:09.159 --> 01:22:13.039
That' s why it' s
just dawning. They took me with a

997
01:22:13.159 --> 01:22:16.560
lady to take care of me and, by the way, gave us protection

998
01:22:16.640 --> 01:22:19.680
for the whole house as well.
Nothing more. Upon arrival he told us

999
01:22:19.800 --> 01:22:25.279
that I fired a strange vibrate.
That told her she was marked by a

1000
01:22:25.399 --> 01:22:30.560
witch. He sent us with a
wiser sorcerer to help us. We had

1001
01:22:30.640 --> 01:22:33.399
to go to another town to see
him. That sorcerer named Matias swept me

1002
01:22:33.479 --> 01:22:38.359
three times. Then I got sick
of his saliva. He asked me not

1003
01:22:38.399 --> 01:22:44.800
to bathe for a week. That
would drive the witch away forever. We

1004
01:22:44.880 --> 01:22:49.079
returned bringing some amulets to the house
that did work, because I never saw

1005
01:22:49.079 --> 01:22:55.840
the witch again. To this day. I can remember fragments of those horrible

1006
01:22:55.880 --> 01:22:58.960
words the witch used to say to
me. I wonder if he' s

1007
01:22:59.079 --> 01:23:04.239
gone forever or if he just waits
in the shadows, waiting for the right

1008
01:23:04.279 --> 01:23:11.840
time to return for me written and
adapted stories by black cat