BRUJERÍA HAITIANA, Proboca La Muerte En Vida Historias De Terror - REDE

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I lived next to my family in
Sonora State, very close to the border.

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The economic conditions in that place were
not the best. My father was

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a construction worker. Most of the
time he worked on his own, so

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he did not have the benefits of
formal work. Not all the time of

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the year, my father had a
safe income. Sometimes he stayed for up

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to a week without getting a job. Several of our friends and acquaintances crossed

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the border illegally into the United States
and were better off than working in Mexico.

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Especially my uncle Juan told my dad
to encourage himself to go looking for

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luck, but it was difficult for
him to make the decision. He said

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he didn' t have a home
or a safe job there. Nor did

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he know how to speak English after
a streak of bad jobs where he only

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got what he needed to feed us. That' s when my dad encouraged

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himself to cross the border. He
did it on a Friday morning. One

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of my uncles used to cross people, so he allowed my dad to pay

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him, since he had work on
the other side. First my father left

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after a few months sent for us. The conditions were exactly the same.

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As soon as my father collected the
money, he paid it to my uncle,

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who was my mother' s brother. At that time I was in

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the senior year of high school.
I thought about how I would do it

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to study and learn the language,
but it was simpler than I thought.

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In a short time I was studying, like my brothers, at a school

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in that country, in the colony
we arrived at. Most of the people

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were from different states in Mexico,
although there were also from other countries.

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It was very pons as a see
people of different nationalities. When there was

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no work in construction or plumbing and
electricity. For my dad, he was

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going to the agricultural fields, to
the fruit and vegetable gathering. If I

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was on vacation, I was also
taking him along, as was my other

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brother, who was two years younger
than me. That day I was picking

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up green chilies. When I saw
a boy who lived near us very close

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together with him two of his brothers
came, He smiled at me. It

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seemed that he had also noticed me, so with a little more confidence,

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I approached Him He introduced Me to
his brothers, but they did not answer,

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although they looked like they were bigger
than him. They were just collecting

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the chilies. It gave me the
impression that they didn' t even notice

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my presence. Daniel was the boy' s name. I went closer to

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where he was doing his job.
When we had a chance we would talk

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so that time would get faster.
Daniel' s brothers didn' t even

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talk. They looked like two machines
that only worked. Daniel had to give

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them every indication with a paused voice
to understand. It was the only way

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they acted. Otherwise. They stood
with their eyes lost. I realized that

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his brothers had a mental problem,
but it was something I didn’ t

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dare ask because it could be quite
uncomfortable, as two of his brothers felt

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that it was inherited mental illness.
The friendship between Daniel and me grew stronger.

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First, we only talked during breakfast
and lunch. Then we would look

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outside of work to spend some time
together. Usually, he was the one

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who was going to pick me up
at my house. I invited him to

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my house and my room, which
was a saying that it was mine,

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because I shared it with the rest
of my brothers, since the house in

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which we lived was very small because
the rents were high and we could not

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afford to go to a larger place. There was a time when Daniel came

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to my house upset. He was
restless. Turning around, I asked him

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if everything was all right. He
was quiet at first. I could tell

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you did. Something happened to him, but it was hard for him to

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tell me what it was, although
I think it was one of his worst

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days, because suddenly he started telling
me that his two brothers were wrong.

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There were days when they started screaming
like crazy and running from place to place.

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Daniel was holding on to his desperate
head, he was very upset.

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I went into my house to make
her some tea for her nerves. I

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was trying to help my friend.
He started telling me that his brothers didn

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' t have any mental illness.
They were born well when they were ten

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and eleven. They did a witchcraft
job in their home country in Haiti.

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From that time on, they were
no longer the same. They stopped talking,

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acting independently, moving even to think. While my friend told me the

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story of his brothers, I found
it surprising how someone could do something like

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that to a human. Even as
little as I knew of such rituals,

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I was unaware of the existence of
people who practiced so much evil. Daniel

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continued to tell me that was why
they left their country and came to the

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United States. His father intended to
find a way for his children to regain

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their will and thought, but everything
had been in vain so far. They

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had not found anything that could serve
them, nor would they find it because

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the media told their parents through the
studies that they practiced, that many of

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their neurons were already damaged and that
there was nothing to do about it.

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I wanted to ask Daniel a lot
of questions, because it was the first

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time he heard something like that,
but his dad was looking for him.

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He came to my house. Daniel
and I were on the bench. Without

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saying anything else. My friend ran
away. I figured it was something very

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serious. The next day I saw
him at the harvest. Daniel just smiled.

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His brothers hadn' t gone to
work I just dared to ask if

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they were all right. He smiled
at me nodding. He no longer spoke

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of the incident with his brothers the
day before, so I no longer commented

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on anything at all Back from the
plots. I noticed my friend absent and

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worried. I could only tell him
that anything he needed could count on my

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support. The following days, Daniel’ s brothers no longer went to work,

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but as my friend made no comment
on it. I didn' t

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ask him anything either. Those days
I was with Daniel while we were working,

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but we saw very little of each
other in the colony until one day

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I went to look for him at
his house. I realized that if something

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happened to my friend or some member
of his family maybe I could do something

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to help him. I' ve
been playing without anyone coming out to open

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me. I snuck into the window
to see if there was anyone inside.

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Inside were his two brothers sitting each
in a wooden chair. They had them

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tied with a rope around the chair, but they didn' t even try

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to get out. They remained seated
with their eyes lost at once. I

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saw your dad come out with some
white candles on, put one in front

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of the other. The lord and
the lady began to pray in their native

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language, while Daniel sang something he
did not understand. I didn' t

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want to stay any longer. I
went to my worried house, thinking that

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everything Daniel told me was a lie
and that the ones who hurt him were

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them with their cursed rituals. I
sat on the sidewalk of my house for

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a while. I was disappointed in
my friend. My mother asked me to

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get in because it was late and
the next day I had to get up

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early to go to work, but
I had no dream in my mind came

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the image of the look of those
two boys. After a while of mumbling

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my thoughts, I saw how far
Daniel was walking towards the avenue. He

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saw me and went to greet me
a little upset. I questioned him about

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the way they treated their brothers,
believing that it was not fair what they

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were doing to them. They used
two helpless souls to make them witchcraft.

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Daniel upset told me that I didn' t know anything and that I was

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talking about something I didn' t
know all they were trying to do was

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help them and if I surely saw
what they were doing it was because I

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was snooping around where they didn'
t call me. I listened to my

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mom' s request. I broke
into the house and daniel walked away upset.

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Took me a while to sleep.
I knew from some comments I heard

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in the neighborhood that Haitians had witchcraft
customs, but I didn' t think

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they would do it with their own
family. After what happened, Daniel continued

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to go to the plot along with
his brothers, but we both distanced ourselves.

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Every man who had a chance looked
closely at the two boys. They

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really seemed like two people with no
will of their own. It was necessary

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for Daniel to give them any indication. I even held them by the hands

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to teach them how to do the
job. It seemed that those two young

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people did not have the capacity for
short memory, because the next day,

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Daniel had to do exactly the same. He gave them the precise directions for

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their work. He himself gave them
a drink of water, as he did

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when it was time to eat,
and he took their plate and told them

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how to eat. I hadn'
t paid due attention to what Daniel was

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doing. It was when I realized
that if I really wanted to harm his

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brothers, I wouldn' t treat
them with so much patience and affection.

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So on the way out of the
shift it was getting dark, because it

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was getting dark early in the night
I approached Daniel and asked him for an

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apology. He immediately hugged me and
everything was forgotten. He asked me to

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help him with one of his brothers. It was necessary to hold him by

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the hand, because sometimes he stopped
and did not move forward. There were

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times when some of them stood still
even if they pulled him away. Then,

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patiently, Daniel slightly threw him in
the back as he told me to

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wish him by the hand. That
was the way his brother resumed the march.

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It was funny because every day we
went back together and had barely realized

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everything Daniel had to do, so
that his brothers would be at least a

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little functional right away. My friend
took his brothers home. He left with

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me and began to tell me how
it was that they had stayed in that

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state before coming to live in the
United States. They lived in Port-

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au- Prince. His father worked
as a housing builder in Haiti. In

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that place they had what they needed
for daily sustenance. His two brothers were

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in perfect condition just like him.
When it wasn' t school season,

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they went with their dad to help
him and learn from the trade. There

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was one time they went to a
strange house. The owner asked his father

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to fix him a room that was
in complete neglect, so they had to

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bury the walls, put in the
electric light, pipe for the bathroom,

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as well as put the floor.
The room was in black. While digging

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the bathroom, one of his brothers
found something hard on the ground. When

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he digged a little bit more.
What he found were human skulls. He

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was so scared that he started yelling
at Daniel' s father to see what

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was going on. He also took
a surprise when he saw what his son

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had dug up. He no longer
wanted to continue working because he could get

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into trouble, so he went to
talk to the owner of the house to

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tell him to pay him what he
had done, but until that day he

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worked with him because it was obvious
that he had something dark to hide.

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The man laughed at what he said. Daniel' s father asked him to

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build the room. The rest were
only minor circumstances, but the gentleman no

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longer agreed. He grabbed his belongings
and withdrew from the work before they left.

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The owner of the house told him
to think things through, because if

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they left, he would regret it. But ignoring Daniel, like his father

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and his brothers, they left the
house. They should not have done so

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because the next day their brothers were
turned into two people with no will,

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something happened to them that turned them
into two lumps. What I saw the

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day I went to Daniel' s
house was a failed attempt to counter the

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curse they did to their brothers.
They were tied up, but because if

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I didn' t do it that
way, they couldn' t control them,

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as they were very upset when they
did the cleansing and healing rituals.

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I never thought witchcraft had so much
power and I told Daniel, but he

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told me that it was only a
little proof of all that evil could do

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to people, since in Haiti it
was common to meet people who were involved

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in witchcraft, although he did not
know the ways in which they did it,

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because, after what happened to his
brothers, his parents were afraid that

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Daniel would hurt him. That'
s why they immediately came to the United

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States. Daniel stopped his story for
a moment. He told me that from

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what happened to his brothers, he
began to see someone who followed him.

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Everywhere, it seemed as if they
wanted to hurt him too. The same

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thing didn' t happen to him. There was only one spectrum that accompanied

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him in his life. So far, I haven' t tried to hurt

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him. Daniel' s words surprised
me, especially because evil was still present

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in his family. It was as
if he were immune to the curse,

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but I followed him everywhere, because
not even by leaving Haiti had I managed

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to get rid of him as if
Daniel were guessing my thoughts. He told

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me he hadn' t told his
parents, because all the time they lived

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in fear and told them what he
saw was putting them at risk. The

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only thing that occurred to me was
to tell him to look for a person

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who could help him that dark being
was no longer following him, because at

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some point he could get hurt.
My friend told me that I had already

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tried everything that understood my concern,
but I couldn' t do anything else.

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I convinced him to go with a
witch my mother had told me was

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very effective, even though I lived
a little distant. We went as soon

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as possible. When she saw my
friend, she realized the evil that was

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following him and she didn' t
want to get into trouble. The witch

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told him that she was not prepared
to face such a powerful curse. If

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he did, he risked the dark
being taking possession of her like he hadn

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' t done with him. I
was only looking for a body to settle

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in to continue evil. That woman
immediately asked him to leave because he was

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afraid of what he saw. In
an effort to help daniel, I asked

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him how he could free himself from
that curse. He replied that it was

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a kind of witchcraft that was not
practiced anywhere. Only in his native country

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did such practices exist, as it
was a combination of the African Buddha with

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what was learned from the traditions of
the original peoples. At that moment it

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occurred to me to tell him that
we would go to Haiti to find who

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could help him, because if the
curse came out of there, the sure

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thing was that there was also someone
who could help him. He kept thinking

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about the possibility of doing so,
but he knew it wouldn' t be

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so easy or get the curse to
stop chasing him, let alone we had

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the money to do it. Surely
we both agree in our reflections because we

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no longer said anything. Daniel said
goodbye to me to go to rest The

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next day, I had school and
he had to go to work on the

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plot. As he retired, I
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I didn' t imagine what it
was like to live with an evil

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being every day. The street was
already empty. Only my friend' s

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silhouette faded away. As he walked
away before turning around the corner to go

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home. I saw a dark shadow
that was left behind him. It was

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a black steam that floated without body
and face, but there it was all

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the time present. During the night. I could get very little sleep.

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I had a blurry dream in which
the faces of Daniel’ s brothers and

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his mixed. The three danced around
a campfire where people sang in an unknown

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language. At the center of the
dance were the three brothers who moved compulsively

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to the rhythm of the drums.
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That was the revealing dream that prompted
me to do something for my friend.

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Perhaps there were other people in Haiti
who knew about this kind of witchcraft

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in Haiti too, so I would
be given the task to investigate. We

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didn' t have the resources at
the time, but in a short time

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we could do it. So,
as soon as I saw Daniel, I

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' d tell him. In those
days I was about to finish what in

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Mexico is known as high school.
I was about to turn eighteen. My

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friend was two years older than me. He had not been able to attend

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school, as he had to work
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His life was reduced to being in
the harvest or in some construction work

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that sometimes had what allowed him access
to an extra income. During the days

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I was at school we saw each
other less time, we had different schedules,

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so at night he was going to
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One day he asked me not to
come to his house, not because he

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did not want to, but because
he was afraid that the following person would

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start to enjoy me, since every
time time time passed he became stronger,

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especially on full moon nights, he
became more powerful and was afraid that he

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would achieve his goal with me.
I didn' t want the same thing

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to happen to me as to your
brothers. One night I was doing my

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homework. I was on final exams
for what happened from 1: 00 in

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the morning. When I heard some
sneaky steps on the street, it was

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possible to hear them because at that
time everything was quiet. I looked out

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the window and saw a man running
across the street. I couldn' t

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see him anymore. I just heard
a heartbreaking scream in the distance right away.

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The dogs began to riot, barking
constantly, several lights from other houses

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lit up. They had also realized
what was happening on the street. Suddenly

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everything was silent. Only the howl
of several dogs broke into silence. That

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night I could not know what it
had been about until the next day.

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I left my house to go to
school. I saw a patrol standing in

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the corner. The cops made a
fence with yellow ribbon so we couldn'

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t stop by. Out of curiosity
I got a little closer I could not

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distinguish everything clearly, because immediately a
policeman stopped me from forbidding me to continue

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in the place. I looked like
I could only see that the man'

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s face was shattered. It seemed
that a wild animal had attacked him,

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because I found no other way to
explain what I saw during my classes was

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very distracted. The teacher of literature
drew my attention on several occasions because I

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was scattered and absent. All I
had in my mind was the face of

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that man and I was even more
anxious to think that the animal that attacked

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the person had something to do with
Daniel. Maybe there was no relationship,

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but I felt like I did.
So as soon as I got out of

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school, I went to my friend' s house. He had already asked

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me not to go for my own
safety, but a need caused me to

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go I knocked on the door several
times without anyone leaving. Again I looked

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out at the window and there was
no one. I was pretty suspicious because

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at least I expected Daniel' s
mother to meet. I went back to

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my house and I was there for
two hours until again I decided to go

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home, but it was exactly the
same as when I went in the afternoon.

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There was no sign that there were
people inside. It looked like they

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weren' t in that place anymore. I was extremely intrigued thinking about the

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safety of my friend and his family. For a week I didn' t

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hear from Daniel. I thought something
very serious had happened to him, but

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that night he came to my house. I was doing my homework in the

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dining room. My brothers and my
parents were already asleep. When I suddenly

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heard that they were speaking to me
by my name and a few soft knocks

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on the door indicated that there was
someone outside. I snuck through the peephole

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at the door. There was my
friend. I immediately opened the door to

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him before he came in He turned
around and walked in. He looked pale

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and blind. Her hair was completely
scruffy. His clothes looked dirty as if

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he had several days without cleaning up. He told me it was urgent that

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we go find a woman who could
help him, but it was necessary to

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go to another state, Massachusetts.
There lived a uncle of him who was

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going to help them, because that
which pursued him became stronger and stronger,

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as he fed on the souls of
the people he killed. What he did

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not understand was why he had not
hurt him, but that his brothers were

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worse than before. He didn'
t give me the details of his brothers,

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but I imagined it because even his
house was gone, although I thought

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it was only a matter of time
before the evil one found him. Daniel

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told me he had raised some money
to go to the witch, which his

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uncle told him. Perhaps he could
help him, because if he did not

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act quickly that being would be strengthened
more. I saw my friend with the

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fear reflected in his eyes. Every
moment I turned upset at any noise on

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the street. I asked him to
sit down and make him some tea,

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but he didn' t even listen
to me. He begged me to accompany

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him. I agreed to your request
by asking you just one more day to

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finish my classes. Then I could
go without worrying about school. Daniel,

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according to my answer, didn'
t even wait for his tea to be

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there. He opened the door before
he left. It turned again everywhere s

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s s u s. S.
Well, he left on an unknown course,

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knowing he wasn' t at home, but I didn' t know

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where they had changed I was looking
at my friend for a few seconds until

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I lost sight of him the next
few days. I was busy with my

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school responsibilities. It was the last
days I' d be at that school

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and then go to college. I
had my academic act where my parents and

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brothers were present. I would have
liked to see my friend Daniel present,

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but I knew he had other conflicts
to settle. That was the last day

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of school activity, so I wanted
to look for it immediately, although I

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had no idea where to leave school
next to my family. There was my

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friend. His shiners proved he hadn' t slept. He was still pale,

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scruffy and with a fearful look,
I approached him to ask him when

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we were going with his uncle,
he replied that as quickly as possible he

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could no longer with that spirit that
pursued him. He believed that at any

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moment he would win the battle and
then lose his conscience, just as his

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brothers had. In addition, they
already had several days that spoke inconsistencies and

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it was most abnormal, because since
they practiced witchcraft they never spoke again.

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Daniel grabbed his desperate head screaming to
be left alone. My parents had no

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idea what was going on. They
turned to see each other trying to understand

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what was going on. They were
frightened by Daniel' s reaction, so

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I approached my dad without telling him
the truth, I told him Daniel was

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sick and only a healer from another
state could help him. It was necessary

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to take him to that place,
but under those conditions or he could not

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do so. Only his parents would
not accompany him because they had to take

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care of their brothers, as they
had a special condition. My words were

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forceful. There was no reason for
one of my parents to tell me that

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I couldn' t go a little
baffled, the two of them nodded as

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they kept watching how desperate I was. Daniel came over to whisper to him

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that the same day we were leaving, we' d just have to buy

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the tickets. I didn' t
know if my friend heard me because he

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suddenly began to convulse. It was
the first time I' d ever seen

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a person contort like that. My
father did not delay in reacting quickly marked

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the emergency services, which arrived in
a few minutes by when they were with

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my friend. The seizure had already
stopped, but he had become unconscious.

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Perhaps evil took advantage of those moments
of unconsciousness to enter into the spirit of

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my friend. Suddenly Daniel reacted with
an injection that he gave him for a

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doctor. At the moment I didn' t know where he was or what

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had happened to him. The service
provider asked him a series of questions that

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were aimed at realizing if Daniel had
epilepsy, but my friend said it had

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not happened to him. It used
to be the first time it ever happened

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to him. He was asked for
his details to call his parents, but

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he begged him not to, as
his parents could not leave their brothers alone.

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My father, seeing the despair of
my friend, intervened saying that he

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could take responsibility for my friend and
that any situation could confront him. So

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the doctor had no choice but to
accept the request. My father was the

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one who signed the authorization to be
released and not taken to the hospital.

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Daniel got out of the ambulance and
my father took us home. In no

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time. We were ready to travel. My father lent me more money in

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case I needed it. Both Daniel
and I had saved up a little,

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but my dad preferred us to wear
enough. He took us to the bus

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station so we could leave as soon
as possible. He hesitated to let us

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go alone. He thought of joining
us, but he had a responsibility for

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a job so he couldn' t
leave without warning a little dismayed. My

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parents left us at headquarters, but
they knew it was for a noble cause,

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so they trusted us to do the
right thing. During the bus trip,

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Daniel was still extremely upset. Suddenly, he got restless and turned around.

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I asked him to calm down the
trip. We were doing it precisely

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so that everything would come back.
Maybe we could get his brothers back to

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being the same as before, but
Daniel told me that was impossible. They

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were already badly damaged and if there
was a change, it was to make

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them worse than they were already.
Daniel kept quiet for a few seconds and

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became very serious. He told me
that his brothers had been made zombies and

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that it was very difficult or almost
impossible for them to return to be the

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same people they were. Although I
didn' t understand why. Nothing had

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happened to him. They did something
like that to him, too. It

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did not work, but an evil
being began to pursue him from the moment

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his brothers were left like this.
We arrived in Massachusetts in the morning,

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the ideal time to take advantage of
the day and try to find the person

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my friend was looking for. When
we leave the terminal, we take another

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transport to go to a village.
It took us almost two hours to get

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to the village at that place a
guy from Daniel was waiting for him.

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He, as soon as he saw
my friend, said a few words in

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an unknown language. Daniel also responded
in the same language. His uncle allowed

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us to stay at his house.
So we wouldn' t have to pay

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for lodging without wasting any time.
Daniel' s uncle took us right away

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with a powerful witch. She also
practiced Buddha on the way. He asked

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Daniel what they had done to make
their brothers fall for that curse, because

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it was not that the sorcerers bocor
were so called in Haiti. Men who

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were involved in Budug witchcraft will cast
curses on anyone. It was mainly a

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kind of punishment that was inflicted on
the person who had committed a reprehensible act.

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Daniel told him about the skulls they
found in the construction of a bocor.

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He didn' t want them to
talk any more. So he cast

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the curse on the three young men, even though he did not understand why

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he had not received it. Effect, the conversation stopped upon arriving at a

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small house that had many fetishes hanging
from the entrance. It might seem like

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it was predisposition on my part,
but as far as my feet touched the

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land of the place, I felt
a sense of fear, as if someone

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or something might be in the air, but I didn' t say anything.

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I went back to see my friend. He was more scared than I

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was as soon as we got in
the witch started to make a few prayers.

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She was called Eneida was a relatively
young woman who had devoted herself from

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a very young age to witchcraft.
She only continued with the same traditions and

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beliefs of her parents and her ancestors. That' s why he had so

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much knowledge of the spirits. Eneida
was a witch who used the budur to

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help people, not to cause harm
or death, but for their spirits to

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find the light. Contrary to what
I knew Buddha was only used for dark

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purposes. Eneida immediately sensed the evil
being around Daniel without saying anything about it.

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He sat Daniel on the floor and
began the ritual of liberation. He

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brought with him an empty glass bottle
that he put next to him. He

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began to dance with movements of his
entire body while singing for several minutes.

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Then he lit a weed and with
the smoke coming out of it, he

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began to smoke Daniel. The smoke
started to spread all over the room.

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Suddenly it changed its normal color to
a black one and with it formed a

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diabolical face that moved everywhere in the
room immediately. Eneida pulled us towards the

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circle Daniel was in while praying in
his native language. It was for a

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piece of wood, or at least
that seemed to light it and began to

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counteract the black smoke. There was
a moment when the room was so full

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of smoke that it was necessary to
open the window. The dark smoke evaporated

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immediately. Eneida left the ritual for
a moment to go to the yard and

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bring a chicken. As the hen
cackled and moved desperate, he cut her

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throat, collecting her blood in the
empty Crystal bottle. There was a time

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when Daniel kept his eyes wide open. He didn' t talk, he

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didn' t move, he didn' t react to any attempt we made.

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Eneida told us to stay out of
it. She knew what to do.

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He got exactly the same as his
two brothers. I was afraid that

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he would be left without will and
thought. After a while that seemed eternal

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to me, he reacted by vomiting
giving a substance of sticky and yellow consistency.

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It was like this for a while
and then fell to the floor fainted.

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I tried to lift it, but
again Eneida stopped me outside the house.

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A lot of noises began to be
heard, as if something was throwing

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away everything there was. There were
even blows on the walls with something heavy,

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but Eneida remained calm. The worst
thing happened when she poured the blood

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of the hen into Daniel' s
stomach. When the animal' s blood

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fell on my friend' s body, a rotten smell invaded the entire room.

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As my friend reacted, he started
screaming desperately looking up at the top

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of the room. I couldn'
t explain how I felt, but it

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was a fear of the unknown that
invaded my entire body. After my friend

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calmed down, everything was calm Eneida
without listening to me and Daniel' s

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reactions, singing and dancing until it
was over. He turned off the herbs

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and sat next to my friend.
He looked exhausted, just like the witch.

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Before he finished the ritual he gave
him to eat grains of salt It

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was as if he had given him
a trigger of energy. Daniel got up

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asking what was going on, why
we were there. I wanted to explain,

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but Eneida gave me a signal with
her hand to stop me. Daniel

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was baffled. He didn' t
seem to remember the last thing we had

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done together, but he slowly recovered. He started to remember everything. Eneida

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approached me and Daniel' s uncle, saying that he was already in the

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process of gloom. If it hadn' t taken a few more days,

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it would have become a soulless body. The uncle intervened saying that the other

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two brothers, if they had taken
away their will and soul, Eneida without

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saying anything, took several handfuls of
the pink salt and put it in a

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glass jar. He gave us instructions
to use it with Daniel' s brothers.

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It made us hincapie that it was
no guarantee that it would work and

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get out of that death in the
life of the boys. With Daniel it

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worked because he had not yet been
harmed by the black witchcraft they practiced with

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them, but he had no idea
if he was going to serve his brothers.

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Eneida sat down on the floor telling
us that surely the souls of Daniel

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' s brothers were in bottles owned
by the muzzle that made them witchcraft,

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but that was going to be impossible
to get them, since the muzzle had

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a guarded place in which it kept
the souls of the people and it was

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very difficult to return to life a
person after the death of the soul and

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the spirit of the eneida told us
that only on one occasion a man could

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return from death to life, but
almost no witch had managed to reverse the

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damage that the brew caused, since
the small soul of the person was trapped,

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only the great soul, which is
the one that gives life to the

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people, remained free. Everything I
said in neida seemed complicated to me to

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understand, but it was a fact
that the act of making people zombies through

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witchcraft did exist, not like the
zombies we saw in the movies, but

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real ones that lost all essence of
humans were like animals that had to be

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cared for because they forgot the memories. Before leaving, Eneida said it wasn

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' t enough with a single liberation
ritual. More had to be done.

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Thanks to Eneida for the work done. Notice Daniel differently because of the closeness

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he had with him. I didn' t realize the changes that were happening.

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He assumed that he was part of
his personality, but the mood swings,

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the lack of memory, the inability
to remember nearby events was proof that

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witchcraft was wreaking havoc on him.
Eneida asked us to stay one more day

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to fully protect Daniel' s spirit, but my friend would not. He

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had to help his parents and brothers. That night we spent at his uncle

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' s house was strange because,
according to the beliefs of Daniel and his

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uncle, in the darkness in which
only the moonlight shines, many souls of

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the dead went out to visit their
relatives. At that time, I thought

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that everything was part of the imaginary
of that place and that it was something

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similar to the celebrations we had in
Mexico. The Day of the Dead was

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a way of honoring the deceased.
It didn' t happen that way.

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While we were sleeping a gust of
wind woke me up, gave me a

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little cold and looked for the blanket
to cover me up. The door and

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the sales were closed, but the
air still felt it. That' s

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when I noticed the spirit of a
being standing beside my friend. It was

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almost imperceptible. I was careful not
to move, I was afraid because I

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thought it was the curse again,
but nothing bad happened. On the contrary,

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that ethereal being stayed for a few
seconds looking at Daniel, put his

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hand on his head, and immediately
left the rest of the night. I

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did not see any spirit coming near
my friend again, but it was no

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longer possible for me to rest.
I was afraid someone or something would show

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up from one moment to the next. In the morning we went back to

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Eneida. She asked Daniel to come
back for more salt for her brothers.

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He prepared it special for them.
He gave it to her in a paper

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bag and also gave her an empty
glass bottle. He told her to keep

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it all the time. Closed with
a cork. We left in the morning

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with the idea of getting him home
soon. On the way I fell asleep.

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I was so tired that I couldn' t sleep during the night that

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I didn' t realize. When
Daniel started convulsing, I was so scared

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that I was shocked not knowing what
to do. Some people on the bus

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immediately began to give him first aid. Within a few minutes, he regained

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consciousness, but was disoriented and weak. Most likely, the seizure ended most

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of his strength because he fell asleep
without saying a word. A lady started

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asking me a lot of questions about
what was going on, but I didn

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' t have all the answers at
the time. I realized I didn'

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t know as much about my friend
as I thought. Nearly upon arrival Daniel

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was already better tired, but conscious
and lucid. That' s when I

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told him I had a seizure.
He looked at me strangely and told me

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he had. I didn' t
mean anything, but it didn' t

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augur well. Upon arriving at the
terminal, my father stopped by to pick

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us up. We went to take
Daniel to where he was staying. I

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wasn' t that distant. It
was in the next colony. He thanked

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the favor and entered the house.
We weren' t leaving yet. When

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Daniel ran away, he told us
that his brothers had gone mad. He

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was crying and couldn' t talk. I got out of the car right

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away. I ran into the house
wondering what Daniel saw to get him into

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that state. I covered my mouth
with my hand. Her parents' bodies

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were lying on the floor without life. There was blood all over the house.

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It seemed that the massacre had been
made by his brothers, probably with

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a knife in the corner of the
room. There they are sitting without moving

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and without having any emotion, with
the look lost and no sign of realizing

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what was happening. They found their
clothes and hands stained with blood. It

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00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:19.639
was more than obvious that they were
the culprits. I had no idea what

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he was living. Daniel started pulling
his hair. I wanted to stop him,

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but he wouldn' t let me. I was almost on the verge

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of madness Daniel had to be dragged
out of the house. His brothers were

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taken to a psychiatric clinic. Daniel
tried to tell the police that they were

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not guilty of the death of their
parents. They were commanded by an evil

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spirit to do so. They didn' t believe everything he told them.

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Last but not least, as I
heard from Daniel, he returned to Haiti

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with his relatives, it seemed that
everything Daniel lived was taken out of a

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fiction book, but it was real. I lived that experience very closely next

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to my friend. I was able
to witness how little we know about other

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cultures and the cults they give up. It may seem very strange in our

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culture, but in Haiti it is
common to perform sombification rituals. The sorcerers

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who make them are the muzzles.
They use a mixture of human tissue,

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bone dust, a dead man,
blue lizard dust, toad dust and balloon

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fish dust. The latter has a
very powerful substance that has the ability to

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make a person zombie contains tetradotoxin.
With this mixture added to the rituals of

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black magic made by the muzzle,
enough elements are given to make anyone a

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zombie. Story written and adapted by
Adriana Cuevas