Las BRUJAS ARPÍAS Que Seguían Al Diablo Historias De Terror - REDE

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The well was thirteen years old there
in a thousand nine hundred and sixty-

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six. On that occasion I was
visiting the ranch of some brother uncles of

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my father, located in a remote
place in the State of Guanajuato. I

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remember it was an end- of- school vacation. There on the ranch

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had two cousins and a little nine- year- old cousin. I got

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along very well with them. The
days were getting short, because we were

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always doing something, whether it'
s ranch stuff or playing around. One

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of my cousins, Javier, the
biggest, was always trying to scare us

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by saying that a woman appeared next
to the closed old wheel that was on

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the ranch. According to him,
my grandmother had told him the story of

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what had happened in that place.
Many years ago, they caught a witch

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or at least a woman accused of
witchcraft. She had been lynched in the

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village because she was blamed for the
disappearance of three girls. Like they couldn

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' t kill her. They took
her to that well and tied her feet

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and hands and let her fall,
listening to her threatening screams, covered the

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place, leaving the witch trapped and
never came back. Very close to that

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wheel, there was a narrow road. The few people who came to pass

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came to the village frightened, ensuring
that they heard horrible screams and that the

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figure of a woman chased them for
a few meters, especially if it was

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night. Over the years, everything
was forgotten. Then they sold those land.

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My grandparents bought them because they got
them very cheap. When they started

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lifting the ranch, they noticed that
the grass didn' t come out.

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Besides, that piece of land where
the well was was much hotter than the

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rest of the land. Some ranchers, especially the older ones, knowing that

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they had acquired those lands, told
them the story of the Witch, assuring

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them that it was real, asking
them to be careful and never to uncover

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the well because the Witch could get
out. But my grandparents didn' t

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believe that. Besides the story being
true, that woman would have been dead

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for many years. The sinister comes
later, when the ranch was there.

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My grandfather built the latrine just a
few meters from that abandoned wheelhouse. My

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grandmother began to hear screams coming from
inside that well and when she went to

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the bathroom, they would knock on
her door. In addition, at night

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a woman dressed in black began to
appear crying and screaming for help. Because

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of all these demonstrations, they stopped
going to that place. In the evenings

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they had supposedly asked for the support
of the father of the village church,

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but he never showed up. Over
the years, my grandparents died, but

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the apparitions, as well as the
screams, followed. My uncles kept the

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ranch, so did they. From
time to time they looked at shadows walking

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around that place. After time ran, my cousins had seen a moving lump.

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These and many other horrible things I
was telling my oldest cousin. Before

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we slept, they made us a
little nervous. Only that summer very strange

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things started to happen. My cousin, little Isabel, behaved strangely. During

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the day. He stood there looking
toward the wheel. Then he reacted suddenly

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as if he woke up after a
trance. Once he looked at her,

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my uncle asked her what was wrong
with him. My cousin didn' t

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answer. I was just looking at
him scared. They missed it. Another

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strange thing that began to happen was
that Isabel spoke r alone, moved her

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arms and laughed. At first they
thought he was talking to his wrist,

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but there were occasions when another voice
was heard and there was no one else

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with her. That situation started to
scare me. Although my uncles claimed nothing

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was going on. They said my
cousin acted like this because he had an

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imaginary friend. At night she heard
her laughing, but she was asleep.

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Besides, he used to say bad
words when they were not allowed to do

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so. I was just visiting.
That' s why I didn' t

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dare say anything, but it was
obvious that something was wrong with him and

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nobody paid any attention to him.
My uncles liked them very much. The

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dogs, for the same reason,
had four at the ranch one morning howling

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very strangely, as in hurtful form. That' s why I woke up

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listening to them. As I straightened
out, I noticed my cousin came out

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of her room. It got really
weird because she didn' t get up

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at night. Besides, I was
very afraid of the dark. That'

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s why I decided to look her
up to see what was happening to her.

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I thought maybe I was walking asleep. I got out of the house.

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I looked at her through the yard. I was barefoot and in my

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nightgown I thought I was going to
the bathroom, but it couldn' t

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be because nobody was going through the
night. That, actually, was very

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strange. When I saw that the
old abandoned Ferris wheel that was about five

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meters from the latrine was heading towards
the well, I was surprised. I

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went slowly behind her. I looked
at her sitting on a stone in front

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of the wheel and in the middle
of the darkness, she began talking to

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someone, although I could not see
anyone else whispering to her as if she

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were in a conversation with a person, but I didn' t want anyone

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to hear her. I was going
to look out, but I stopped to

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see her and hear her do it. That gave me the creeps. I

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' d better go back and talk
to my cousins. All the way back

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to the house. I felt something
strange on my neck, as if someone

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were coming after me staring at me
before entering the house, I turned to

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the wheel. From there I could
see the silhouette of my cousin standing by

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the well. She wasn' t
the one who followed me I woke up

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to Julian, one of my cousins
I told him what was going on.

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When he finally understood what he was
trying to explain, he got up.

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We went first to check my cousin
Isabel' s bed for my surprise.

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I was asleep there. My cousin
stared at me. He told me that,

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as a joke, it was too
bad not to go into clarifications,

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I better keep quiet. I don' t have an explanation for how he

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got back so fast in the morning. I was on the lookout for what

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my cousin was doing without anyone noticing
I watched her, but she didn'

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t do anything weird. He helped
in the house, talked and played with

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his old rag doll that he always
carried, but that was it. When

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night came, then yes, I
looked at it weirder and looked at anything

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staring at it. When he ran
into my eyes, he avoided them.

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She seemed to realize that I was
on the lookout for her. That night

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I was vigilant already in the morning. I saw you leave the house.

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I was going to talk to my
cousin Javier, but I thought about it

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because I had a very heavy dream
about him getting up. We would lose

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a lot of time, as the
night before I followed her a few meters

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away while I hid in the trunk
of a tree. Isabel stood in front

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of the wheel. He started talking
softly first. Then in a normal way,

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although I could hear her, I
couldn' t understand what she was

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saying. I was surprised when he
approached the well and raised one of the

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covered woods. The Ferris wheel got
so high, I thought it was going

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to hit the bottom. I wanted
to yell at him, but I didn

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' t get any sound out of
my throat. My cousin bowed so much

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to the inside of the well that
it looked like she was trying to force

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something out of the wheel. I
looked away without being able to do anything.

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My cousin straightened out, covered the
wheel with the wood and turned to

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where I was. After a few
minutes he walked back. It happened close

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to me, like, two meters
away. I could tell she wasn'

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t asleep. He was smiling until
he came into the house. I was

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able to react. I was tempted
to go and notice what was inside the

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wheel, but it was all so
dark that the fear of what I had

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seen contained me better. I went
back to bed again, saying nothing to

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anyone. Obviously, I couldn'
t sleep well that night. The next

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day, the morning I went to
the bathroom, I turned to the well

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because I felt a strange vibe.
Everything was covered up like they never opened

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it. The time I was in
the latrine, I was nervous, imagining

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that someone was going to knock on
my door, like it was with my

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grandmother. From there the next three
nights, Isabel did the same. He

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would get up in the morning with
his white nightgown, cross the whole backyard,

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come in front of the wheel and
sit there maybe half an hour,

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talk to someone I couldn' t
see. Then he would pick up a

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piece of wood that covered the wheel
and put in half a body. Then

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he returned without making any noise and
went back to bed knowing that what I

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miss was very dangerous. I talked
to my aunt looking for the words.

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I told him what was going on
at night. At first he didn'

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t believe me, but seeing me
so serious, he knew something weird was

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going on. My aunt, worried, sent for her and passed on to

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my cousins, not to mention that
I had put her on. He asked

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Isabel several times who she was talking
to at night. She was surprised,

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only answering with a nervous smile.
Then, between his teeth he said that

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with his wrist that answer did not
reassure the family because they felt it was

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not true. Isabel went out to
play my aunt. He talked to us

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three and worried about what we knew
about the well, asked us to take

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care of the girl. That'
s why we decided to keep an eye

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on her more closely the next night, maybe she got up at the time

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I didn' t go after her. I preferred to wake Javier and Julián

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to be seen with the intention of
understanding what was happening. My cousins and

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I decided to go on without seeing
each other. We hid behind the trees

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about five meters from it, watching
Isabel approach the wheel again and sit on

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the stone. He started talking.
This time we could see clearly what had

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until then been a mystery from the
dark background of the wheel came out a

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hand so skinny that it looked like
a skeleton. He took my cousin'

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s arm and pulled her to the
pit. Seeing that made me so impressed

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that I was about to run.
My cousins were so terrified that they couldn

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' t move as we looked at
each other. Something happened because Isabel screamed

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and ran to the house. I
didn' t even see her pass.

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I was looking at the well because
what was in there pulled out the other

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hand. Suddenly they disappeared as if
they had slipped and fallen to the bottom.

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Scared, we left for the house
thinking about how we were going to

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tell my uncles something as awful as
that. We' re in a hurry

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and we' re jamming everything.
We were nervous. We couldn' t

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fool the guys. They asked us
to tell them what we had seen for

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Isabel' s sake. That'
s how we did it from the beginning.

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They didn' t believe us.
We swore to them over and over

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again that it was true. At
that point, my uncle wanted to go

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alone with the carbine to see what
was happening. In the end, one

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of my cousins stayed to take care
of Isabel. The others went to the

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well without having taken a flashlight.
We walk nervously. It was only a

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few meters, but I became eternal. When we got there, the wheel

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was well covered. We walked around
the wheel looking for another way out or

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something weird that could justify what we
had seen, because the boards that covered

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the well were nailed and Isabel no
matter how hard she did, she couldn

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' t lift them up. For
more security, my uncle asked us to

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help him and between the three of
us we raised the stone where my cousin

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sat. We put it on top
of the boards that cover the wheel.

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Then we checked the latrine. When
we don' t find anything out of

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the ordinary, we' re back
on track. We were asked what exactly

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we had seen since when it happened
and many more things later. My aunt

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checked my cousin and realized that she
had bite marks on her arms, some

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very recent. He thought it might
be the dogs or some nocturnal animal that

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had its burrow inside the wheel,
but the bites seemed human. He swore

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to my cousin with what he had
at hand. He told us he didn

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' t know what was inside the
wheel, but whatever it was was biting

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Isabel. The next morning she again
questioned Isabel who was inside the well and

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who had bitten her. In answering
that I didn' t know about the

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bites or anything, my aunt asked
my cousin, Javier and I to accompany

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her to take the girl with a
person to check her bites. That person

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was at another ranch. We walked
the mountain for about an hour. I

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thought we were going to see a
Tupe doctor who was a healer. He

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had some stuffed birds on the roof
and the smell of incense was perceived before

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entering. That woman' s eyes
fell on my cousin and I kept looking

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at her that I still didn'
t know why our visit inside her house.

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Everything was weird. It had a
lot of symbols and weird stuff in

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jars. After he heard everything he
told her, my aunt checked Isabel,

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although it was a possibility. We
didn' t want to hear that the

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bites were from the witch in the
well, but that' s how it

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turned out for the healer. The
child was marked and little could do for

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her. The sweep gave her prayers, washed her wounds with the water of

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some herbs, but that was it. He suggested we go with a known

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woman of his. She' d
probably tell us what to do to free

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her. This would have to be
three nights later, when the full moon

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passed. Before we left, she
asked us to take those nights away to

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get the other woman to take care
of her. We wouldn' t let

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my cousin get near that well,
because if I bite her again, no

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one could help her. We returned
thoughtful and very worried thinking what we were

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going to do. That night.
My uncle said Isabel would sleep with them.

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We took advantage of it to rest, because at least I had not

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slept well. Being asleep a dry
sound made me wake up it. First

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thing that came to my mind was
my cousin. I wanted to get up

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suddenly, but I was stunned.
There was something in the environment that numbed

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me. I shook my head and, as I could get up, I

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was going to wake my cousins,
but I wasn' t even sure what

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I had heard. Besides, I
had already lost many seconds I walked into

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the kitchen and checked that I didn' t have the lock. I went

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out and looked at Isabel with her
white bluson. I' d already crossed

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most of the yard. I was
about to get to the Ferris wheel.

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It didn' t give me time
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I came to despair when I got
to the tree, where I always

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hid, I stopped to see what
was going on with my cousin. I

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have no words to describe how awful
I looked at the well. A figure

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was coming out so creepy it gave
me goose bumps. She was a woman

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of cadaveric appearance, with her hair
tangled, gray and dirty full of knots.

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His skin was pale. It was
covered with very marked spots and wrinkles

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that made it look even more grotesque. His eyes were sunk, surrounded by

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deep shiners. They still shone brightly. His mouth twisted into a malicious smile.

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His fingers were long bony as claws
in his hands held the piece of

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wood that covered the wheel. The
witch wore an old dress hanging from her

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skeletal body. As he moved,
he produced a horrible sound, as if

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his own being was broken inside.
My cousin, Javier, arrived suddenly scared

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me so much that he almost made
me scream. He asked me to calm

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down, when he also looked at
what had come out of the well.

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Horror paralysed him knowing my cousin was
in danger. Besides, we knew we

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were witnessing something evil. That woman
who had come out of the well spoke

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to Isabel in a low tone that, although we could not hear what she

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was saying, it was clear that
she was exerting some influence on her.

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That dreadful woman took my cousin by
the arms and licked her wounds with her

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tongue. Finally, when Isabel returned
to the house, the witch had disappeared.

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We approach the wheel and seal the
entrance on it. We put back

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the stone I had and one more, hoping I could keep the witch from

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coming out again. At that time
we did not begin to think how Elizabeth,

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when she was nine, had been
able to move such a stone.

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From that night on, the doors
were locked so that my cousin couldn'

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t leave her without knowing it.
He got up in the morning as usual,

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and when he discovered that he was
locked up, he knocked on the

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doors with all his might. The
whole family got up and tried to contain

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Elizabeth, who twisted and tried to
escape. Later, my aunt made him

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a painkiller with him. He relaxed, but gave him a lot of temperature,

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and at dawn he fell asleep.
He got up the next day,

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though emaciated. He was fine,
but he seemed to remember nothing. The

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situation didn' t stop there.
Elizabeth was still drawn to the wheel as

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if an invisible force called her that
became unsustainable. The next night we had

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to grab her again so she wouldn' t get out. She was crying

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all night desperate. The next day
was the date of taking Isabel with the

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woman who recommended us, the healer
lived even further. We were able to

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find her because she was known in
the region for her ability to deal with

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the supernatural, we understood that that
old woman of an intimidating appearance was a

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witch for a long time. He
performed a ritual to free Elizabeth from the

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witch' s influence. He used
herbs, some brews and prayers. After

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hours, he declared that Elizabeth was
free from evil. She warned us that

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the Ferris wheel' s wife wasn' t just a witch. It was

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a very dangerous spirit attracted by the
innocence of the girls. From that day

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on, we should always be vigilant. We' re going back to the

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ranch. My aunt drew some signs
around the wheel and prayed a lot my

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uncle built a kind of box without
a door so that not only Isabel could

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not get close, no one could
do it. Since then, the wheel

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was sealed and no one else approached
her. Isabel, in time he regained

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his normal life, but the memory
of those nights and the horrendous witch that

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emerged from the depths was etched in
our minds at times that I have gone

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to visit my cousins now, at
this age, I still believe to hear

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voices coming from the bottom of the
wheel, already very early in the morning,

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but I prefer not to approach.
Some things it' s better not

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to wake up harpies again. At
that time, I was the youngest on

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the three- brother ranch we were. He was about eleven years old.

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Our ranch wasn' t too big. We fed on what the field and

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the animals gave. Of course,
we lived almost among the shadows at the

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expense of sunlight and the moon,
many meters away from one ranch to the

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other. I was making the quietest
nights. In rainy times, roads became

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impassable. My dad was very strict
with us. If he loved us,

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though he could not show his love, he would send us with him shortly

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after the sun was hidden and he
would lift us up when the moon was

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not yet gone, so that we
would begin with our labors. If we

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were bad, he' d hit
us with a stick. The days at

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the ranch were full of things to
do. The sun shone very pretty and

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the weather was warm. Working.
Time was running fast, but nights were

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something else. For starters, we
used candles and an oil lamp. That

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dim light made our whole environment turn
into something sinister. Our faces, full

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of shadows, transformed our traits,
making us look like other people, just

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falling asleep, sometimes so low that
I couldn' t sleep. Everything was

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surrounded by a thick blackness that did
not allow to see beyond a few meters.

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In addition, we heard rather strange
sounds of animals that we had never

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seen, but that at least I, in my mind as a child,

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imagined them awfully large and with big
snouts, capable of devouring a person.

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My mom used to put scissors and
water glasses under the beds. Just like

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some sacks of salt She never told
us what they were for, but I

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knew from talks she listened to,
that it was to scare away the witches,

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although by that time I had never
seen them. When my grandmother visited

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us, who was very occasionally bringing
news from the village, some of them

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preferred not to listen to them because
they meant terrible things that happened near our

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ranch and we didn' t even
know about them. We were when I

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was talking about some women I called
harpies, they were asking me out because

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I was too young to find out
about those things. We rarely visited the

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nearest village, which was about two
hours walk away, although sometimes we were

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riding in a donkey we had and
so we made less time to go to

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that town. We sought that it
should not be done at night when we

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returned, because it was among the
villagers that when the sun was hidden and

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the shadows arrived, strange figures emerged
from the trees that crossed the narrow paths

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according to those who had already seen
them and even claimed that they had been

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persecuted. They said that they were
animals with a woman' s face,

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that they made strangers, squealing,
disturbing, that they put the wildest dogs

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to tread in a chilling way.
My grandmother told us that these things were

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not ordinary human beings, they were
creatures of the devil, who pretended to

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be women of the people to look
after men and take them away. Although

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their food was usually small animals that
were stolen from ranches, especially on darker

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nights. We were not allowed to
tell lies because that was a sin.

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So when I came to see something
strange on the ranch, whether it was

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in the shadows or among the branches
of the trees, it said nothing,

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because it was so strange that they
wouldn' t believe it. Those shadows,

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which could be from women or animals, knew that I could see them.

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That' s why they were hiding. When they showed up, they

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wouldn' t let me sleep.
They whispered among each other for a long

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time and sometimes laughed in a very
different way from us. When they did,

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they were always looking at the house, probably planning something against us.

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Sometimes they came too close to the
house and walked on the roof or touched

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the windows. It really wasn'
t easy to know what they were.

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They had no wings, but they
leaped towards the trees easily as if they

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were flying and had bright eyes.
There were seasons that appeared quite frequently.

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Sometimes it was only one presence,
but in others it was many more.

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I' d rather shut up than
tell my mom because I' d be

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judged a liar and that was a
sure punishment. Maybe those figures knew I

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couldn' t talk and mocked me. I was afraid when I heard my

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dad talk that outside the town there
were strange ruins back in the time of

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the Revolution. Strange women identified as
witches there, although the vast majority did

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not call them that. The women
who lived in those places were known as

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harpies. According to the oldest in
town. They were dark beings who were

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confused with the night. Some nights, once or twice a month they would

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light up in that place and dance
around it and even get into the fire,

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but they wouldn' t burn.
There were those who claimed that a

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grotesque figure emerged from the light,
horrifying as a devil with long hands horns

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and the smell of fire reached many
meters. From there. The harpies screamed

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dreadfully for happiness every time that being
appeared When they ended their meeting, some

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of them flew out into faraway villages. Others stayed in the village and it

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was them. According to a lot
of people. The culprits of all the

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bad things that happened said that during
the day these women hid in the trees

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or in wells near the houses.
Also from a doctor' s office they

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did it to smell the wounds of
the people and identify the patients and then

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attack them in their own homes,
follow them to their ranches or where they

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were most vulnerable. The most I
knew about those women was that they were

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tall, thin figures, with their
skin so pale that they looked like lifeless

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bodies. They wore black clothes so
long that they dragged them across the ground

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waving around them as if they were
living shadows, their hair falling on their

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faces, hiding in part their horrible
features. His fingernails were long sharp,

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able to tear flesh to bones easily
and always hungry. Others witnessed that these

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women could appear or disappear at their
whim and even take the form of someone

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else. The scariest thing about them
was that they said that these women could

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not die because they had a covenant
with the unnameable to be eternal. The

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only time I had contact with those
women was when I was eleven, one

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day one of my aunts came to
visit with her little son. He would

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only stay for a couple of days, although it was not a custom,

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he had already done so on other
occasions. That morning, my dad and

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older brother had gone out into town
to do some shopping. They' d

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be back before night fell. That
was the custom about two o' clock

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in the afternoon. My brother,
who had stayed with us strangely, got

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sick so that out of nowhere he
got a lot of fever. Time passed

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and nothing was taken away from him
before he convulsed. My mom and aunt

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had to take him to the healer, one who lived in the village.

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She' d know how to cure
him. My mom gave me all the

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recommendations because it was the first time
I was left alone. They warned me

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they were going to be late and
they stayed looking for my dad in town

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to come back before nightfall all together. Therefore, I stayed in the care

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of my cousin, who at that
time would be about seven years old At

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first, although the minutes ran fast, I was calm, but the time

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passed I felt that soon the night
would arrive. I began to see myself

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occupy when the afternoon fell and neither
my father nor my mother came. The

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concern was not that I was alone, but for the strange creatures who appeared

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down that path falling into the night. In addition, the sky was beginning

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to cloud. When the lightning started, I became more and more nervous.

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He was constantly turning to the road
that would bring them back, but they

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didn' t show up. It
started to get dark. So, if

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I got scared, I started worrying
no more about them, also about us,

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who were alone. My cousin looked
at me scared every once in a

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while and asked me about his mother, only to answer that he would arrive

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soon, but neither could I convince
myself that that was the truth. Inevitably

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and very much to my regret,
it was made at night completely with all

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the care. I lit some candles
because the darkness was more and more afraid

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of us. Wanting to prove that
nothing happened. I grabbed my cousin and

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sat at the door waiting for my
parents in the hope of seeing their silhouettes

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appear along the way. But that' s where the rain started and we

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had to get in. I thought
if my parents didn' t hurry in,

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they' d be stuck in the
middle of the road through the mud

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that formed. After a while,
the thunder started and everything became more disturbing

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to increase my nerves. My cousin
started crying. I was about to,

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too. In that I heard strange
noises outside the house. I still didn

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' t find out what that was
and I was almost shaking with fear.

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I tried to calm down could be
the animals frightened by thunder. As I

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looked out the window, there was
lightning. I was scared because I saw

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two strange women prowling around the ranch. At that moment I did without distinguishing

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them I knew they weren' t
my mom or my aunt. The thunder.

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The lightning and the rain followed.
Those women were far away, but

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they looked remarkably taller. They didn' t even cover themselves from the cold

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or the water. In another look
I gave they were already on our ground.

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An intuition told me they were harpies. Fear invaded me, but I

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knew I had to stay calm to
protect the child that surely was what caught

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their attention. I closed all the
windows and doors praying they couldn' t

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find a way into the house.
The dogs were barking and the other animals

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were in turmoil. But it wasn' t just that. I could feel

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a chill that warned me somehow that
we were in danger. My little cousin

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clung to me who almost wouldn'
t let me move. I looked out

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again and those strange women were already
a few meters from the house. He

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laughs at the front door as far
as we were. I could hear the

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sound of her whispers and macabre laughter
that was freezing my blood. We cornered

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cuddling where we could in the darkest
place, We were almost breathless we kept

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silent, because with horror I realized
they were trying to force one of the

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rear windows in minutes. I reacted
and turned off all the candles so those

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creatures couldn' t see us.
Although I had heard many times that witches

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could see in the dark without any
difficulty, the noises did not stop.

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Apparently, one of them was climbed
on the roof. The wood creaked under

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his weight every time he stepped in, proving to me that they were huge.

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Another hit the windows and his nails
scraped the glass. My heart was

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beating desperately, while I wished with
all my might that I would soon reach

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my family. After a while,
I realized my cousin didn' t move.

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I got away from him scared.
I was eleven, obviously filled with

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terror. At that time I didn' t know I was more afraid of

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the witches getting in or being next
to my cousin' s cold body.

414
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:20.199
Besides, I thought I was gonna
tell my aunt. Seconds later as I

415
00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:22.519
could, I managed to master my
fears and went to review it again.

416
00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:29.079
He turned my soul to my body
when I checked that if I breathed,

417
00:34:29.719 --> 00:34:35.000
my eyes were open, but I
was stiff as if I were in some

418
00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:37.920
sort of trance with my hand open. I hit him several times to react.

419
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:42.119
When he finally did, I put
him under the bed, where the

420
00:34:42.119 --> 00:34:46.719
scissors were open and all the things
my mom put against the witches. When

421
00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:52.039
I was most scared, they pushed
the front door. I didn' t

422
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:54.880
know what to do I ran all
over the house looking for something to defend

423
00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:59.920
myself with. They pushed over and
over again as they heard screams s s

424
00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:05.360
s. To increase my horror.
I could see some women peeking out the

425
00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:10.400
window all soaked in water. I
was about to run and hide under the

426
00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:15.079
bed, too. There came a
moment when the door no longer resisted and

427
00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:21.320
broke down. With horror. I
saw that several of those silhouettes came in

428
00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:25.320
pushing each other in a desperate way. They went in and raised the door.

429
00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:30.880
While some were looking for us,
others were blocking the door with what

430
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:37.159
they were doing all that a chaos
between screams and noises. I realized they

431
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:42.760
were my parents, my aunt and
my brothers. My mom screamed to help

432
00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:46.119
her find the salt When she had
it, she watered it all over the

433
00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:52.039
house, while, accompanied by my
aunt, they prayed many things. I

434
00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:55.840
couldn' t see well, but
apparently, my dad and my brothers stopped

435
00:35:55.880 --> 00:36:01.440
the door because those women kept pushing
her. While all that was happening,

436
00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:07.239
I was standing in the middle of
the house, perhaps in shock or in

437
00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:10.280
a nervous breakdown that did not allow
me to react. After a long time

438
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:15.519
trying to get in without getting there. The harpies fled with loud screams that

439
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:21.599
resounded at night. My scared nephew, but I didn' t understand what

440
00:36:21.639 --> 00:36:27.199
had happened. I also couldn'
t believe that those women had attacked us

441
00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:30.519
so directly. When the calm came
back, we all had something to tell.

442
00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:35.440
My mom and my aunt said that, on arriving with the healer,

443
00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:39.239
she assured them that my brother had
a deception. The witches did something to

444
00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:45.079
make her feel so bad and get
out of the house so they could come

445
00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:49.519
in and see what they ate.
They were terrified to know that what they

446
00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:54.440
would find to eat would be me
and my little cousin. Imagining a thousand

447
00:36:54.440 --> 00:36:59.719
atrocities, they decided anyway to look
for my dad and my brother before they

448
00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:04.679
got out the healer. He told
them a way to protect themselves from these

449
00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:07.880
women and to visit her. When
I could. My dad said they were

450
00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:13.239
coming back. When they saw my
mom and my aunt with a frightful face,

451
00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:17.400
until they finished telling her their concern, they walked out of town to

452
00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:23.480
take the road that would take them
back by force They would have to pass

453
00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:30.519
through those ruins where the witches met. It was inevitable not to turn because

454
00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:37.440
one of those women, the harpies, stood outside looking at them and didn

455
00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:40.159
' t take their eyes off them. My dad said they passed by feeling

456
00:37:40.199 --> 00:37:45.599
a strange feeling that made his mouth
bitter. They took the road in a

457
00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:51.039
hurry. When the lightning started,
they couldn' t stop. On the

458
00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:55.199
contrary, they rushed the passage within
a few minutes the downpour came. The

459
00:37:55.280 --> 00:38:00.360
land. Usually loose, it became
chiclosa, and bullets began to resurrect.

460
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:06.920
They were moving slower and slower.
My mom, who was usually the slowest

461
00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:12.320
walker, went ahead rushing everyone with
the uncertainty of not knowing what might be

462
00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:16.960
going on in the house. They
still had a long way to go.

463
00:38:17.079 --> 00:38:22.519
When in spite of the darkness,
he could see that a strange figure crossed

464
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:27.199
the way. Some stopped others because
not everyone had seen her and put on

465
00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:31.599
alert because they knew they were stepping
on the stretch where the birds appeared.

466
00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:37.360
With a woman' s face,
they looked for some sticks and, leaning

467
00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:40.039
on my dad, my mom,
kept walking forward. Everyone else followed him.

468
00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:45.480
They had no choice. It was
either that or standing there in the

469
00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:49.920
middle of the road, where they
would be easy prey for those creatures.

470
00:38:50.480 --> 00:38:55.159
Under the rain slipping in so much
mud and dominating their nerves, they walked

471
00:38:55.199 --> 00:39:00.039
without turning towards the trees, feeling
the looks of the air hidden between the

472
00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:05.679
branches from time to time as they
were heard. Sounds quite unreal, like

473
00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:10.719
terrifying sounds that could easily be confused
with songs of nocturnal birds or with laughter

474
00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:15.000
from many women. Despite all that, they didn' t stop. My

475
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:20.280
brothers told me that they were cold, afraid of everything that was heard,

476
00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:24.760
but what was most disturbing to them
was to think that the witches had already

477
00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:31.960
attacked us and surely had been terrible. When they were at last a few

478
00:39:32.039 --> 00:39:37.360
meters from the house, they looked
at how some of those sinister figures did

479
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:43.159
everything to get in they grabbed stones, sticks what they found to throw at

480
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:47.360
them. Only then could they approach
the house. As the door is locked

481
00:39:47.559 --> 00:39:52.559
and we didn' t answer,
they pushed her to the ground. Finally,

482
00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:57.960
I told them about what we had
been through when we finished talking had

483
00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:00.360
already dawned in Nn N. At
that moment, my dad and my older

484
00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:05.800
brother started to repair the door,
while my mom did everything the healer told

485
00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:08.960
her to protect the house and through
to us, ground some herbs, mixed

486
00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:16.280
them with salt and I think with
some already dried lemons. That' s

487
00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:21.400
what he drew at the door.
When it dried up, it disappeared,

488
00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:25.840
but protection was left. In the
middle of the morning, my aunt grabbed

489
00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:30.320
her things and my cousin and returned
to her village. I couldn' t

490
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:35.400
hide the scare he had taken.
My dad only walked her because she was

491
00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:39.639
looking forward to leaving us alone.
He came back before sunset. When the

492
00:40:39.639 --> 00:40:44.599
shadows appeared, we entered the house, although instead of saying that we took

493
00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:50.880
refuge, it would be more correct
to say that we hid inside her fearful

494
00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:55.000
of what could happen. I didn' t criticize my parents for that it

495
00:40:55.000 --> 00:41:00.000
was understandable. That night we realized
that the protection that had been put in

496
00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:05.480
place if it was effective, because
voices and many sounds were heard, but

497
00:41:05.559 --> 00:41:09.360
many meters away, perhaps because of
the courage that they had to not be

498
00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:15.760
able to approach, they threw stones
of all sizes against our house until very

499
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:21.039
early in the morning, although for
the next two days the aggressions were like

500
00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:23.519
that, no longer seemed to us
that it was so dangerous. Over time,

501
00:41:24.119 --> 00:41:29.159
the attacks of the harpies stopped,
although fear persisted in our house,

502
00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:34.599
also in the village for many years, until one day they were never heard

503
00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:40.239
of again. From there, we
always made sure we were home before dark

504
00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:47.440
and never left me alone again,
day or night. For a long time,

505
00:41:47.480 --> 00:41:52.599
my dad continued to visit the gutter, who on several occasions changed his

506
00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:58.320
protection because after a while they became
immune and no longer affected the witches what

507
00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:12.880
we put a witch on the hill. I' m living the last few

508
00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:15.079
years as a rescuer in the state
of Nuevo León. In this work I

509
00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:21.239
have seen everything I never imagined,
from real miracles to the most horrific things

510
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:30.159
injured in car accidents, people drowned
or burned. I can share these and

511
00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:35.559
many experiences but this story that I
am going to narrate far surpasses the others.

512
00:42:35.639 --> 00:42:38.280
I have been doing this since one
thousand nine hundred and eighty- six,

513
00:42:38.920 --> 00:42:43.320
though at that time I was only
a volunteer. It was precisely in

514
00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:46.440
that year, having only a few
months to enter the Red Cross, that

515
00:42:46.519 --> 00:42:52.480
I had to live this situation as
a rescuer. Sometimes it was up to

516
00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:57.559
us to attend relief calls for colonies
far away from populated areas, but close

517
00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:01.639
to the slopes of the hills.
They were usually people who had been misled

518
00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:06.920
or who had suffered an accident such
as falls or the attack of some mountain

519
00:43:06.920 --> 00:43:10.760
animal. It was a moonless night
that started to rain. My partner Luis

520
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:17.159
and I were resting by having a
hot coffee, always waiting for nothing bad

521
00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:22.239
to happen. But if it did, we were prepared to react quickly.

522
00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:28.000
It was about eleven o' clock
when a call was received. The report

523
00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:34.199
was urgent. It was a matter
of rescuing a wounded person who was screaming

524
00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:37.280
through the mountain at the skirts of
a hill. It was not specified whether

525
00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:42.159
she was a man or a woman. For that kind of rescue we had

526
00:43:42.199 --> 00:43:46.119
a double- wheel drive truck that
helped us a lot to circulate without difficulty.

527
00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:51.559
Along those difficult roads, full of
holes and stones. My partner and

528
00:43:51.559 --> 00:43:55.599
I are heading for the hill with
everything we need. We had a minimum

529
00:43:55.639 --> 00:44:00.880
rescue team. We were never well
equipped, but that' s true.

530
00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:06.159
Our desire to help was enormous.
We knew that, at night and in

531
00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:10.280
an unpopulated place, the exact location
of the place where people need help was

532
00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:16.480
difficult. We went through a good
stretch, first in the skirts, then

533
00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:21.280
in the middle of the hill,
without finding anyone. It started to rain

534
00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:27.119
slightly. That made the cold a
little colder. The lightning lit up the

535
00:44:27.280 --> 00:44:31.440
bushes that seemed to move strangely.
The van had some headlights that helped us

536
00:44:31.719 --> 00:44:38.960
find people in the dark. We
decided to go up a little bit more,

537
00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:45.199
but the gaps were becoming impassable with
the water. On several occasions the

538
00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:50.679
wheels were about to get stuck.
That' s why we decided better to

539
00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:54.920
get out of the truck and walk
the search would slow down, but we

540
00:44:54.920 --> 00:44:59.719
found no other option. When we
got down we heard the wind whistling between

541
00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:05.320
the ares and the darkness seemed denser
than normal. We kept quiet to see

542
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:10.320
if we could hear that person'
s cries for help, but it was

543
00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:15.119
all silence. We had barely walked
a few meters. I came back because

544
00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:21.280
we got a radio call. The
information said that some people had seen strange

545
00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:25.679
lights on the top of the hill
and heard cries for help. The companion

546
00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:31.519
asked me to be very careful because
they had also reported strange shadows that could

547
00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:37.599
be dangerous. They gave us the
location of the rescue again and we walked

548
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:43.119
there without knowing what could wait for
us. The thunders intensified and with them

549
00:45:43.239 --> 00:45:47.960
the risk of lightning falling on us. My partner Luis was used to that

550
00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:52.440
kind of rescue, but for me, who was just starting that night,

551
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:59.400
I felt it with a strange vibe. As we climbed up, the road

552
00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:04.159
became more stressed and rugged. We
had left the van headlights on, but

553
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:09.000
they barely lit up a few meters
ahead and we had already walked much more.

554
00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:15.760
We keep walking in the rain until
we reach a very thick area of

555
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:19.840
scrubs. This made it difficult to
find someone because they hardly looked at the

556
00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:23.840
ground. We shouted on several occasions
that we were Red Cross rescuers, but

557
00:46:24.039 --> 00:46:30.199
we had no response. The rain
increased a little more, but we could

558
00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:35.400
not stop looking for the land.
He became more and more slippery taking care

559
00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:39.239
of where Pisar walked with his eyes
down. That' s why all I

560
00:46:39.639 --> 00:46:43.599
saw was a light that fell on
top of the hill. It wasn'

561
00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:46.440
t lightning or lightning, it didn' t even have a sound. It

562
00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:52.039
was very strange. More like a
fireball than anything else. Luis didn'

563
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:55.960
t say anything. Apparently I hadn' t seen her. Minutes later,

564
00:46:57.039 --> 00:47:00.519
at a medium distance, with the
light of our flashlight, we saw a

565
00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:07.360
figure moving slowly between the darkness in
which we were in. It was difficult

566
00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:10.920
to identify the first what that was. With caution. We approached a few

567
00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:15.559
meters, thinking that by the size
it was might be a bear of those

568
00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:22.199
who commonly lived in those places.
We, as rescuers, did not carry

569
00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:27.039
firearms. That' s why we
had to be very careful. When that

570
00:47:27.119 --> 00:47:30.320
lump was about six feet away,
we realized it was an old woman.

571
00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:37.199
He looked very bent with long hair, falling on his face. He didn

572
00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:42.039
' t measure more than a meter
and a half he walked a few meters

573
00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:46.280
towards us. Then he hid in
some bushes. I talked to him asking

574
00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:50.960
if he was okay, but he
didn' t answer. My partner Luis

575
00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:54.480
did, too, but it was
all silence. The first impression was of

576
00:47:54.519 --> 00:48:00.559
compassion. Maybe she was a homeless
woman lost on the hill and they were

577
00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:05.480
afraid of us. So we told
her again that we were rescuers and we

578
00:48:05.559 --> 00:48:08.599
were going to help her. When
we went to see where he was,

579
00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:15.000
there was nothing. We looked around
for her thinking maybe she' d been

580
00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:21.480
hiding or dragged, but that old
lady was missing. My partner and I

581
00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:24.480
looked at each other bewildered. We' ve never had such a thing happen

582
00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:30.840
to us before. We rechecked that
whole area without finding anything. Maybe I

583
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:36.440
got nervous because every time you heard
thunder and there was lightning. I thought

584
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:43.719
I saw shadows running to hide everywhere. We' re still looking for that

585
00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:46.599
bad feeling she left me. The
old lady had me on edge. My

586
00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:53.440
partner Luis was also very nervous.
Turning everywhere. The water did not help

587
00:48:53.440 --> 00:49:00.119
much, neither to walk nor to
see clearly again. We kept quiet because,

588
00:49:00.159 --> 00:49:06.719
despite the sound of the rain,
someone' s footsteps were being heard

589
00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:08.719
approaching and the minutes passed and we
didn' t look at anyone. That

590
00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:15.159
sound of footsteps seemed to come from
our surroundings. It was actually very dark,

591
00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:19.760
but something helped us with the flashlight. For the same reason, I

592
00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:22.719
can assure you that there was no
one. That' s where I understood

593
00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:28.239
that that was a paranormal situation.
It was preferable to believe that they could

594
00:49:28.280 --> 00:49:32.559
be coyotes prowling around the place.
Those strange noises moved away from us until

595
00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:37.519
they were completely lost in the mountains. We, as rescuers, have a

596
00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:44.119
mission. We couldn' t just
retire and soon after we arrived, claiming

597
00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:49.760
that we didn' t find anything
much less because we were afraid. That

598
00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:54.679
' s why we decided to tour
the hill as much as we could regardless

599
00:49:54.679 --> 00:49:59.679
of the weather conditions. Maybe and
hopefully we' d find the missing person.

600
00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:05.159
For the next few minutes we go
up a lot of meters we scream

601
00:50:05.159 --> 00:50:07.760
until we get tired. It seemed
like the higher we went up, the

602
00:50:07.880 --> 00:50:14.000
darker hill was thinking it had been
a false report. We decided to go

603
00:50:14.239 --> 00:50:16.320
back, but we barely took a
few steps. We heard a regret.

604
00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:21.280
It wasn' t a scream as
such or heard so far away from us.

605
00:50:21.639 --> 00:50:24.440
It was heard again only that this
time, a little higher, we

606
00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:30.760
decided to make one last attempt to
find who was screaming. We walk meters

607
00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:36.199
up followed by each other, we
search and nothing. When we felt that

608
00:50:36.239 --> 00:50:39.679
it was enough, we stopped when
we turned down. The van' s

609
00:50:39.719 --> 00:50:45.920
headlights barely made a difference We'
d have to go down a lot of

610
00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:51.079
feet. The complaint was heard behind
us and we turned and heard it elsewhere

611
00:50:51.159 --> 00:50:57.840
as if someone were playing a joke
hidden in the immense mountain I screamed annoyingly

612
00:50:57.920 --> 00:51:00.880
that was not funny, but no
one answered. Everything was a silence that,

613
00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:05.280
instead of calming us down, was
making us more and more tense.

614
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:10.880
We talked about the situation for a
moment. We agreed to return to base,

615
00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:16.480
because it was a long time searching
without finding any wounded from what we

616
00:51:16.559 --> 00:51:21.760
were hearing and what we had seen. We agreed it wasn' t normal.

617
00:51:22.280 --> 00:51:25.400
Also, something told us that we
were in danger, although we did

618
00:51:25.440 --> 00:51:30.519
not know to what extent. Again, in the distance I could see the

619
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:35.679
silhouette of the person we had seen
meters below, only now I was climbing

620
00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:38.880
the hill and looking at it well. She was a pretty hunched little woman,

621
00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:44.719
so much so that her arms seemed
to drag her down. Her head

622
00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:50.199
was so tilted to the front that
looking at her in the back, she

623
00:51:50.239 --> 00:51:53.079
looked like a decapitated person, as
she was all dressed in black. It

624
00:51:53.159 --> 00:51:59.159
was easily confused with the night,
lost among the branches of the old scrubs.

625
00:51:59.159 --> 00:52:04.559
At times it seemed to disappear.
I yelled at her to stop so

626
00:52:04.599 --> 00:52:07.840
I could help her. The woman
kept coming up very easily as if she

627
00:52:07.840 --> 00:52:12.519
didn' t listen to us.
My partner Luis took a stick and threw

628
00:52:12.599 --> 00:52:17.159
it at her side to react.
I wasn' t expecting it, but

629
00:52:17.159 --> 00:52:22.800
that' s how it happened.
He stood there without making any other movement

630
00:52:23.079 --> 00:52:28.119
He looked like one more of the
bushes. We walked a little towards her.

631
00:52:28.559 --> 00:52:31.280
I yelled at her not to move
anymore. When a chill turned to

632
00:52:31.519 --> 00:52:36.599
us, it swept through my body. That woman' s face was a

633
00:52:36.719 --> 00:52:40.679
mask of horror. His eyes were
completely black, dark, wrinkled skin.

634
00:52:42.119 --> 00:52:45.599
He had a smile that, more
than anything else, looked like a grimace

635
00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:51.000
of displeasure. Luis yelled at him
that who he was and what he was

636
00:52:51.079 --> 00:52:55.280
doing on the hill, the old
woman did not respond, but began to

637
00:52:55.360 --> 00:52:59.599
move towards us in a way that
was scary. He moved as if his

638
00:52:59.639 --> 00:53:05.320
artichokes were not well connected. We' re starting to back off. We

639
00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:08.280
knew we were facing something that didn' t seem to be from this world.

640
00:53:09.320 --> 00:53:13.159
The first thing that came to mind
was that she was a witch,

641
00:53:14.039 --> 00:53:17.559
because there was no other way to
describe her. In addition, on many

642
00:53:17.800 --> 00:53:22.719
occasions we had heard that a woman
like that appeared above that hill. She

643
00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:30.119
was credited with losing people because she
chased them for hours until dawn. Until

644
00:53:30.159 --> 00:53:36.719
then they found some way back.
On the way down. Scared people had

645
00:53:36.960 --> 00:53:43.480
their experience with the witch, but
usually no one believed her. The most

646
00:53:43.559 --> 00:53:46.679
told story was of a man and
his son who came up to know the

647
00:53:47.119 --> 00:53:52.000
hill before dusk. The father felt
bad and the boy was unaware of the

648
00:53:52.039 --> 00:53:57.360
way to go for help. Therefore, they fell the night without knowing what

649
00:53:57.440 --> 00:54:02.719
lived there. They settled for two
rest resigned to waiting for dawn, and

650
00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:08.079
so with the first rays of the
sun find their way home, but after

651
00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:15.079
midnight they felt stalked by something or
someone. They heard horrible sounds that made

652
00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:20.039
them run as they could through the
mountain. The only thing they came to

653
00:54:20.119 --> 00:54:23.920
see was a shadow that made huge
leaps. He ran along with them constantly

654
00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:30.199
complaining, but he never attacked them. Remembering those stories made me more nervous

655
00:54:30.679 --> 00:54:36.199
because we were living it in our
own flesh. I never imagined how terrible

656
00:54:36.280 --> 00:54:39.159
it was to see a witch face
to face in the midst of loneliness.

657
00:54:40.400 --> 00:54:45.079
That woman raised one of her bony
hands. At that moment I felt I

658
00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:49.840
was going to curse us with a
few words. I yelled at my partner

659
00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:53.079
that we ran and we did it, but we didn' t notice where.

660
00:54:53.719 --> 00:54:57.719
Obviously, it wasn' t the
same up the hill as down it.

661
00:54:58.159 --> 00:55:04.840
I was so inclined that we fell
several times until we got stuck with

662
00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:07.559
some thorny scrubs that I could get
discouraged, even though I was wounded.

663
00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:12.719
At the time I didn' t
feel it or care about it I was

664
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:16.000
going to run, but I stopped
to help my partner, who was lying

665
00:55:16.599 --> 00:55:20.400
in the mud, just like I
was. More than feeling hurt, he

666
00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:24.559
felt very scared. She repeated to
me on many occasions that she was a

667
00:55:24.559 --> 00:55:30.239
witch. I asked him to calm
down, still wounded like we were,

668
00:55:30.679 --> 00:55:34.840
Luis and I tried to run away
trying to keep that woman from seeing us.

669
00:55:36.320 --> 00:55:39.519
We crawled a few meters between the
falling water, not really knowing if

670
00:55:39.559 --> 00:55:45.840
we were getting close to the truck
or getting further away after a few minutes

671
00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:50.760
of crawling, I got up.
I realized I didn' t have the

672
00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:53.519
flashlight anymore. I didn' t
know where I lost her I looked.

673
00:55:53.639 --> 00:55:58.159
There was no sign of the witch, but neither were the headlights in the

674
00:55:58.199 --> 00:56:02.679
van. I told Luis we were
lost nervously. We ran again what else

675
00:56:02.760 --> 00:56:08.760
we could do. Minutes later we
stopped because in the distance we could see

676
00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:14.559
that strange silhouette again. It was
a shadow that seemed to be waiting for

677
00:56:14.559 --> 00:56:20.079
us. Who knows with what intentions. With the few forces we still had,

678
00:56:20.719 --> 00:56:24.800
we ran to the opposite side.
I knew we' d get lost

679
00:56:24.840 --> 00:56:29.159
even more, but at the time
we didn' t care. Besides,

680
00:56:29.360 --> 00:56:35.199
we were running on instinct. Luis
told me that I could no longer run

681
00:56:35.239 --> 00:56:38.079
by breathing with difficulty. He asked
me to look for the van while he

682
00:56:38.159 --> 00:56:42.960
was getting some air. I didn' t want to leave him alone,

683
00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:45.239
but I had to. I moved
forward stealthily. I couldn' t let

684
00:56:45.280 --> 00:56:51.480
myself see the witch. Sometimes I
would walk in haste, in other crouching

685
00:56:51.599 --> 00:56:57.079
or hiding where I could. I
was afraid that woman would find me I

686
00:56:57.159 --> 00:57:02.679
slipped and turned back constantly. I
did it more instinctively, because I didn

687
00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:08.400
' t really get to see much
through all that darkness. About fifteen minutes

688
00:57:08.480 --> 00:57:14.119
into the drive, I looked away
at the van' s headlights. That

689
00:57:14.239 --> 00:57:17.239
made me a little happy. If
I came down at the time, I

690
00:57:17.400 --> 00:57:22.920
' d be safe in a few
minutes, but I wasn' t going

691
00:57:22.920 --> 00:57:24.199
to leave my partner without wasting time. I came back for Luis, watching

692
00:57:24.239 --> 00:57:30.039
as far as I could see.
Maybe he was already halfway there. When

693
00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:35.159
in the distance I heard him scream
apparently something was attacking him the road became

694
00:57:35.199 --> 00:57:37.880
eternal to me. When I thought
I was on the spot, I called

695
00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:43.199
him trying to keep it quiet.
I walked a little more to a few

696
00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:45.559
meters. I looked at a lump
in the earth advancing toward me. At

697
00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:51.480
first I got scared, but seconds
later I recognized him. It was Luis

698
00:57:51.599 --> 00:57:54.920
who came crawling as he could.
I helped him get up. He told

699
00:57:54.960 --> 00:58:00.280
me scared that old lady was coming
after him holding on to me. We

700
00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:06.239
ran as we could to the truck, but the more we ran, the

701
00:58:06.280 --> 00:58:10.519
closer we felt it. Her movements
were fast despite her appearance, or maybe

702
00:58:12.159 --> 00:58:17.159
we were too slow at a point
I could turn around to see if she

703
00:58:17.199 --> 00:58:22.599
was following us to that woman I
saw her rise above the bushes. His

704
00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:27.960
figure seemed to grow and deform.
Suddenly, Luis stumbled and fell again.

705
00:58:29.159 --> 00:58:32.960
I tried to help him get up, but the witch was almost over us.

706
00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:37.480
At that point I thought it was
all over with one last effort.

707
00:58:37.639 --> 00:58:40.679
I picked up the first thing I
found, and I hit it hard.

708
00:58:42.360 --> 00:58:45.880
Maybe I hit her,' cause
that seemed to disorient her. For a

709
00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:52.000
moment he stopped long enough so he
could lift Luis and keep running. We

710
00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:57.119
didn' t stop until we got
to the van. We got inside and

711
00:58:57.159 --> 00:59:01.719
for a few seconds we looked at
the dark monkey. Suddenly I reacted.

712
00:59:02.360 --> 00:59:08.199
We start at full speed without looking
back or anywhere. Next. I can

713
00:59:08.239 --> 00:59:14.639
' t say for sure, perhaps
because of the suggestion I had, I

714
00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:17.880
could see through the mirrors, as
that Witch was leaping through the bushes to

715
00:59:17.880 --> 00:59:22.320
almost reach us. I was about
to get out of the way on more

716
00:59:22.440 --> 00:59:25.719
than one occasion, but I managed
to stabilize the truck. Not even when

717
00:59:25.800 --> 00:59:32.519
I took the pavement. I stopped
stepping on the throttle because I felt his

718
00:59:32.599 --> 00:59:37.480
presence that night, when we finally
returned to the base, we were both

719
00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:42.400
in shock. We were healed of
the wounds we had, but we didn

720
00:59:42.440 --> 00:59:45.519
' t talk about what we saw
with the other comrades. We knew that

721
00:59:45.519 --> 00:59:50.519
maybe no one would believe us.
We' d never forget those black eyes

722
00:59:50.599 --> 00:59:55.400
and that disturbing smile. We informed
our superiors that we found nothing and finished

723
00:59:55.480 --> 01:00:00.639
the shift. Since then, our
companions noticed us were fearful. One of

724
01:00:00.679 --> 01:00:06.800
the phones told us we were scared. With a lot of discretion. He

725
01:00:06.840 --> 01:00:10.239
asked us permission to sweep us with
a chicken egg. I didn' t

726
01:00:10.280 --> 01:00:15.199
believe in those things, but what
it could affect me. I said yes.

727
01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:20.519
After doing so, he gave us
some amulets that were already cured from

728
01:00:20.559 --> 01:00:25.360
that night. We avoid approaching the
hill without any protection. This story also

729
01:00:25.400 --> 01:00:29.440
tells the story. Luis, as
he lived it, says that when he

730
01:00:29.480 --> 01:00:32.119
was left alone, no matter whether
there was water or mud, he lay

731
01:00:32.239 --> 01:00:37.559
down on earth to regain strength.
He closed his eyes for a moment because

732
01:00:37.719 --> 01:00:42.360
water fell on him, but he
opened them immediately because someone grabbed him by

733
01:00:42.440 --> 01:00:45.400
his ankles and started dragging him with
the water and mud in his eyes,

734
01:00:45.639 --> 01:00:50.719
he couldn' t see who was
taking him. The first thing he thought

735
01:00:50.760 --> 01:00:53.119
was that he was a huge bear. Then, through his mind, the

736
01:00:53.199 --> 01:00:58.440
idea that it might be the witch
that took him away by the chills that

737
01:00:58.559 --> 01:01:04.320
gave him. He reacted and tried
to get out. Seconds later, full

738
01:01:04.360 --> 01:01:09.199
of despair because he could not free
himself, he began to scream, but

739
01:01:09.199 --> 01:01:13.320
far from letting go, he was
dragged away with more force. Feeling free,

740
01:01:13.719 --> 01:01:17.320
overcoming his fear and despair, he
began to crawl until I found him.

741
01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:22.559
And, like him, when I
tell my story, very few people

742
01:01:22.599 --> 01:01:27.840
believe that we do look at a
witch. Every time I think about what

743
01:01:27.840 --> 01:01:31.199
happened to us that night, I
can assure you it was real. Something

744
01:01:31.320 --> 01:01:37.639
terrifying inhabits those hills, something that
cannot be accepted by all. Sometimes when

745
01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:43.760
I finish telling this story, I
get as nervous as I was that night.

746
01:01:44.960 --> 01:01:49.920
I wonder if the Witch will be
hiding there in the thick darkness,

747
01:01:50.920 --> 01:01:54.280
hoping to find someone to pass on
the worst experience of her life. Like

748
01:01:54.320 --> 01:02:00.519
it happened to us. This was
the only paranormal situation I had to live

749
01:02:00.519 --> 01:02:12.599
in, but it was enough to
leave me marked for life when it was

750
01:02:12.599 --> 01:02:19.199
dark. It all started a few
years ago, when I was just a

751
01:02:19.320 --> 01:02:22.679
13- year- old teenager.
When this happened to me, it was

752
01:02:22.719 --> 01:02:25.039
because I moved in with my aunt
Josefina, a sister of my father.

753
01:02:25.440 --> 01:02:30.199
At that time, my parents were
getting divorced and the lawsuits between them were

754
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:35.159
very strong. In all those troubles. I had no voice or vote.

755
01:02:36.039 --> 01:02:38.440
It was only my turn to obey. That' s why, when my

756
01:02:38.519 --> 01:02:43.920
dad took me in his car to
a village far away from my house and

757
01:02:43.960 --> 01:02:45.760
realized that my mom didn' t
object, I didn' t either.

758
01:02:46.400 --> 01:02:51.199
I didn' t have a case. Although I didn' t say anything,

759
01:02:51.440 --> 01:02:54.800
I felt like they were getting rid
of me, because neither of them

760
01:02:54.880 --> 01:02:59.239
could or wanted to take care of
me. I knew he' d take

761
01:02:59.320 --> 01:03:01.519
me to my aunt Jose Efina'
s. She was old, but she

762
01:03:01.559 --> 01:03:06.639
was still single. I didn'
t know anything about his life, much

763
01:03:06.679 --> 01:03:09.599
less what he did. When we
arrived at his house, I realized that

764
01:03:09.719 --> 01:03:15.400
this one was very rare, that
something strange and unknown happened there. Inside,

765
01:03:15.119 --> 01:03:20.840
people came out almost straddling in the
middle of smoke and a strong smell

766
01:03:20.880 --> 01:03:25.440
as strange as penetrating. We waited
for her for a while until she finished

767
01:03:25.480 --> 01:03:30.320
what she was doing and finally came
out. He was a strange person to

768
01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:32.719
me. Despite being my dad'
s sister, I' ve never seen

769
01:03:32.840 --> 01:03:37.599
her before. He was, like, fifty or fifty- five years old.

770
01:03:37.039 --> 01:03:40.920
He looked very serious. He asked
my dad if he was sure of

771
01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:45.840
what he was asking. He didn' t even look at her. He

772
01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:49.840
just kissed me, told me he' d come after me and left me

773
01:03:50.159 --> 01:03:54.719
there. I don' t even
have words to explain how I felt when

774
01:03:55.039 --> 01:04:00.039
my aunt Josefina looked at me as
she threw a sigh, made me come

775
01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:02.679
over to her house with signs,
asked me to take a seat. Then

776
01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:08.519
she sat in front of me,
too. I was very nervous because his

777
01:04:08.599 --> 01:04:14.519
whole house was gloomy the few furniture
he had were very old on the walls.

778
01:04:14.719 --> 01:04:18.519
There were hundreds of strange foliages and
strands of hair. I also felt

779
01:04:18.599 --> 01:04:24.719
restless because whenever my parents shouted things, my mom told my dad that her

780
01:04:24.719 --> 01:04:29.239
sister Josefina was a black witch who
swallowed the children and my dad never denied

781
01:04:29.360 --> 01:04:35.880
her. For me to hear that
was very scary and now knowing that I

782
01:04:35.920 --> 01:04:41.800
would stay a while at home had
me more than worried. We talked for

783
01:04:41.880 --> 01:04:45.519
an hour practically to get to know
each other. I didn' t eat

784
01:04:45.679 --> 01:04:49.559
because he offered me something that looked
horrible. I just had some milk that

785
01:04:51.239 --> 01:04:56.360
first night I stayed there. It
was terrible. I lay down in a

786
01:04:56.440 --> 01:05:00.880
cot that was in a corner alone
and with all the lus off. I

787
01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:05.400
remember waking up in the middle of
the morning because a very strong smell came

788
01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:10.960
through my nose. He couldn'
t identify what it was. Then I

789
01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:16.400
heard someone walking around dragging their feet
in fear trying to see in all that

790
01:05:16.519 --> 01:05:20.800
darkness the only thing I could distinguish
was a lump that seemed to get bigger

791
01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:26.960
and bigger, thinking maybe it was
my aunt trying to scare me into asking

792
01:05:27.039 --> 01:05:31.000
my dad to come for me.
I held on, mastered my nerves and

793
01:05:31.079 --> 01:05:35.679
turned to the wall but all that
was left of him at night felt that

794
01:05:35.840 --> 01:05:42.960
someone was standing next to me staring
at me was so much the fear I

795
01:05:43.360 --> 01:05:47.840
felt that sometimes I could not breathe. I could also hear strange sounds coming

796
01:05:47.840 --> 01:05:54.800
from outside, as if some animals
wallowed After a long time I heard my

797
01:05:54.880 --> 01:05:58.880
aunt came in, went into her
room and lay down. It seemed that

798
01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:04.480
it had been revealed everything remained silent
and so I could sleep for a while

799
01:06:04.599 --> 01:06:10.960
the next morning without going around so
much, he explained to me what he

800
01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:13.800
was doing with simple words. He
told me he cured the people who came

801
01:06:13.880 --> 01:06:17.199
to her for help. She asked
me not to be scared because from that

802
01:06:17.280 --> 01:06:21.599
moment on I would listen and see
things I wasn' t used to.

803
01:06:23.280 --> 01:06:27.360
While he was getting ready to work. He told me a number of things

804
01:06:27.440 --> 01:06:30.599
he had to understand. At first, the house was very small, so

805
01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:34.880
there was no other. I would
go out in what she worked for more

806
01:06:34.920 --> 01:06:41.039
than four hours or stay and watch
what was going on inside, even though

807
01:06:41.119 --> 01:06:45.159
I felt scared to death because of
the things I imagined. I told him

808
01:06:45.239 --> 01:06:48.039
I' d meet him. Another
thing she stressed to me was that not

809
01:06:48.119 --> 01:06:53.760
calling her aunt was better for her
and for me to tell her Josefina,

810
01:06:55.039 --> 01:06:58.639
because I didn' t want anyone
to know that I had family. I

811
01:06:58.679 --> 01:07:01.320
said no. It wouldn' t
be a problem. With that stuck to

812
01:07:01.360 --> 01:07:06.239
the wall about four meters from where
she would serve people, she put a

813
01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:12.559
bank. There I sat, warned
me in a very serious tone to look

814
01:07:12.679 --> 01:07:15.480
at what I looked at. I
wasn' t supposed to get up because

815
01:07:15.599 --> 01:07:18.800
I could be hit by some spell. He told me not to talk,

816
01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:23.880
don' t cry, don'
t shout. As time progressed, my

817
01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:27.920
aunt seemed to transform in front of
me. Suddenly he looked a little taller

818
01:07:28.039 --> 01:07:32.599
and the gesture of his face became
hard. His hands had also grown and

819
01:07:32.639 --> 01:07:36.400
he could not be seen when he
was breathing. Maybe I' m overreacting,

820
01:07:36.920 --> 01:07:41.559
but even his tone of voice changed
and he had a strange glow in

821
01:07:41.559 --> 01:07:45.800
his eyes. At about ten o' clock in the morning the first people

822
01:07:45.920 --> 01:07:49.400
came to his courtyard seeking relief for
their ills. They were carrying an old

823
01:07:49.480 --> 01:07:53.920
woman who couldn' t even walk. They put her in the house among

824
01:07:53.920 --> 01:07:59.440
several. To see her like this
with her white hair and the nerves that

825
01:07:59.480 --> 01:08:03.360
were killing me badly. I felt
a deep fear because in truth she looked

826
01:08:03.440 --> 01:08:10.079
very ugly the lady, had very
open eyes and did not speak. His

827
01:08:10.079 --> 01:08:15.639
relatives said that he had not eaten
or drank water for three days. He

828
01:08:15.719 --> 01:08:17.640
didn' t answer when they were
talking to him either. I was totally

829
01:08:17.640 --> 01:08:20.800
out of my way. My aunt
Josefina, with her hands, took her

830
01:08:20.840 --> 01:08:26.159
by the head and looked at her
eyes. For a few moments she told

831
01:08:26.159 --> 01:08:30.720
them that the lady was working.
Then a large man who accompanied her held

832
01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:35.800
her tightly, while Josefina swept her
with some herbs and made some prayers for

833
01:08:35.920 --> 01:08:42.000
her. Then he lit a cigarette, gave it a strong draught, and

834
01:08:42.039 --> 01:08:45.479
the smoke threw it at one of
his ears, then at the other.

835
01:08:45.039 --> 01:08:49.800
When that man squeezed his stomach,
the lady tried to break out, opened

836
01:08:49.920 --> 01:08:55.119
her mouth more than possible and screamed
a horrifying cry that made me shudder.

837
01:08:55.920 --> 01:08:59.720
I looked at a strange black smoke
coming out of him, he had hands

838
01:08:59.840 --> 01:09:04.439
and head. It went up to
the ceiling. Then he vanished. Josefina

839
01:09:04.680 --> 01:09:10.439
explained to people that that smoke was
the witchcraft that the old woman had inside.

840
01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:15.560
With that, ma' am reacted
and began to cry. When she

841
01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:18.079
felt better, my aunt gave the
family some herbs that they had to bathe

842
01:09:18.159 --> 01:09:23.720
the woman with for three days in
order to clean her from any bad vibes

843
01:09:23.840 --> 01:09:28.319
that she had attached. They went
out and I couldn' t believe all

844
01:09:28.319 --> 01:09:30.319
that. I still wasn' t
getting over what I' d just seen.

845
01:09:30.439 --> 01:09:34.680
When they took a child who was
convulsing, he trembled all over his

846
01:09:34.720 --> 01:09:40.159
body and blanked his eyes. After
explaining what was happening to him, he

847
01:09:40.199 --> 01:09:44.079
was put on a bench face down. Then my aunt climbed over him with

848
01:09:44.560 --> 01:09:47.359
one of her hands. He held
her head by the jaws and the other

849
01:09:47.600 --> 01:09:55.039
shoved it into her mouth. The
boy screamed and kicked desperately. Then he

850
01:09:55.119 --> 01:09:59.359
vomited several times until the scrapie of
the body disappeared. In the vomit that

851
01:09:59.439 --> 01:10:03.600
was pooping. The boy had some
insects that he could see how they twisted.

852
01:10:04.119 --> 01:10:08.439
My aunt asked Dad to step on
them to undo the evil and not

853
01:10:08.439 --> 01:10:13.399
get his son back in. I
remember how eager they were to listen to

854
01:10:13.399 --> 01:10:15.840
me. Every step I stepped on. One of those animals with some water

855
01:10:15.880 --> 01:10:21.399
cleaned the child, who kept crying. The father with tears in his eyes

856
01:10:21.640 --> 01:10:29.079
thanked his son for reacting. When
they retired and we were left alone until

857
01:10:29.079 --> 01:10:31.840
then, my aunt asked me how
I was. I went back to see

858
01:10:31.920 --> 01:10:35.760
her and made an effort to smile
nervously and answer her that she was fine.

859
01:10:36.319 --> 01:10:43.279
I knew she realized I was terrified. After noon he made some clean

860
01:10:43.720 --> 01:10:45.720
over time. I knew that was
a day- to- day thing.

861
01:10:46.199 --> 01:10:50.520
Already in the afternoon he received two
other people. One of them suffered from

862
01:10:50.560 --> 01:10:57.119
severe back pains and hallucinations that tormented
her for the same thing all the time

863
01:10:57.159 --> 01:11:01.239
she fought with them. The family
wanted to lock her up in a mental

864
01:11:01.479 --> 01:11:06.000
hospital, claiming she had lost her
mind, but my aunt told them that

865
01:11:06.079 --> 01:11:11.840
the woman had been killed. The
other person was a forty- five-

866
01:11:12.279 --> 01:11:15.560
year- old man who had fallen
for bad luck. I had already lost

867
01:11:15.560 --> 01:11:23.319
business, money, family and desperate
health. He had tried everything to recover,

868
01:11:23.439 --> 01:11:27.239
but nothing had worked for him.
Going to see the healer was his

869
01:11:27.279 --> 01:11:31.239
last choice. She helped the two
of them in a different way, laid

870
01:11:31.279 --> 01:11:36.079
her in a circle, covered her
all with herbs. Then, with her

871
01:11:36.119 --> 01:11:41.840
hands, she seemed to pull things
out of her head, something I never

872
01:11:42.000 --> 01:11:46.359
saw but every time she reached her
hand, the lady jumped as if some

873
01:11:46.399 --> 01:11:50.399
energies were coming out of her body. On the soles of his feet.

874
01:11:50.640 --> 01:11:56.079
He put some hot herbs in it
and wrapped them up. Then he made

875
01:11:56.159 --> 01:12:00.359
a few prayers that I had never
heard. At last, the lady could

876
01:12:00.399 --> 01:12:05.520
speak to say she felt better.
His healing lasted almost an hour. He

877
01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:10.920
struck the man with a bunch of
herbs on the palms of his hands as

878
01:12:10.960 --> 01:12:15.520
he said prayers that he had to
repeat. Then he gave her some coins

879
01:12:15.560 --> 01:12:20.479
to squeeze them hard. He asked
him to close his eyes and even if

880
01:12:20.520 --> 01:12:28.439
he heard it disgusting, he anointed
him with Orina before dispatching him with some

881
01:12:28.520 --> 01:12:31.399
amulets that he always had to carry, revealing the name of the person who

882
01:12:31.520 --> 01:12:34.840
had thrown the salt at him As
I recall, he had been one of

883
01:12:34.840 --> 01:12:40.760
his brothers. So it happened that
day with some startlings. I really didn

884
01:12:40.840 --> 01:12:43.279
' t know if I could handle
it for a long time. So,

885
01:12:43.600 --> 01:12:46.880
looking at those things, when it
was done on the night again, I

886
01:12:46.880 --> 01:12:51.039
heard they were dragging their feet.
I wanted to turn around, but a

887
01:12:51.119 --> 01:12:56.000
terrible fear prevented me. I endured
as much as I could for the second

888
01:12:56.000 --> 01:12:59.840
night. I couldn' t sleep
well, I already felt accepted by my

889
01:12:59.840 --> 01:13:03.920
aunt. I was just calling him
Josefina. So I thought maybe she wasn

890
01:13:03.960 --> 01:13:09.520
' t the lump I was looking
at in the morning. I kept thinking

891
01:13:10.239 --> 01:13:14.039
maybe there was something in the house
that, for some reason, was trying

892
01:13:14.119 --> 01:13:17.920
to keep me from getting up at
night and thus keep me from looking at

893
01:13:17.920 --> 01:13:21.640
something forbidden. With the passing of
days I got used to all that.

894
01:13:23.680 --> 01:13:29.600
I was no longer horrified by the
screams or scared to see Josefina when she

895
01:13:29.840 --> 01:13:33.840
seemed to transform and did strange things
to help all the people who came in

896
01:13:33.840 --> 01:13:39.640
the morning. But I also began
to realize that people made strange comments about

897
01:13:39.720 --> 01:13:45.760
my aunt. Some called him Witch, claiming that his healing powers came from

898
01:13:45.800 --> 01:13:50.119
a pact he had with the devil. That made me remember what my mom

899
01:13:50.199 --> 01:13:55.560
said so much. I began to
suspect she was more than just a healer.

900
01:13:56.199 --> 01:13:59.359
Without her noticing I started spying on
her in the day or o and

901
01:13:59.560 --> 01:14:05.159
everything was normal. As always,
the atmosphere changed completely. When the sun

902
01:14:05.159 --> 01:14:10.760
was hidden and it was dark.
The house, which in the daytime seemed

903
01:14:10.800 --> 01:14:15.960
like a shelter where people received help, became dark at night. An unsettling

904
01:14:16.000 --> 01:14:21.880
silence took hold of her. Only
when it was very early in the morning

905
01:14:21.920 --> 01:14:26.800
were those footsteps heard that I could
not know whose they were. But now

906
01:14:27.119 --> 01:14:30.399
what took my dream away was what
I had heard from people that Josefina was

907
01:14:30.520 --> 01:14:35.439
turning into a dreaded witch. There, in his own house, where I

908
01:14:35.520 --> 01:14:41.119
slept, I was afraid that he
would be able to make covenants with the

909
01:14:41.199 --> 01:14:46.279
devil and harm anyone who stood in
his way. One afternoon while I was

910
01:14:46.319 --> 01:14:49.920
helping her make some tea so she
could rest for a while. I watched

911
01:14:49.960 --> 01:14:55.279
her hands look like an old lady' s. They were skinny and wrinkled.

912
01:14:55.640 --> 01:15:00.279
When he grabbed things, his fingers
trembled as well. I observed her

913
01:15:00.640 --> 01:15:06.079
ears were bigger and her eyes looked
opaque. The first thing I thought was

914
01:15:06.479 --> 01:15:13.600
that she was getting old at the
time. That night was disquieting before they

915
01:15:13.640 --> 01:15:18.880
began to listen to the usual footsteps
I got up scared because I heard strange

916
01:15:18.880 --> 01:15:25.680
murmurs and noises coming from my aunt
Josefina' s room. It was my

917
01:15:25.800 --> 01:15:29.800
chance to find out. I walked
slowly through the darkness, trying not to

918
01:15:29.920 --> 01:15:34.399
make a noise, walked to his
door and listened. Besides my aunt'

919
01:15:34.439 --> 01:15:39.960
s voice, there was another voice, but I couldn' t understand what

920
01:15:39.960 --> 01:15:45.039
they were saying. I only spent
a few minutes listening because there was something

921
01:15:45.159 --> 01:15:47.760
in the environment that was very scary
for me. They started talking louder.

922
01:15:48.439 --> 01:15:55.079
Then I heard Josefina referred to the
other person as my lord. At the

923
01:15:55.199 --> 01:15:59.239
time I thought I was talking to
the devil. I felt the skin turned

924
01:15:59.279 --> 01:16:03.600
gair and ran for my cot.
All night long I listened and watched things

925
01:16:03.640 --> 01:16:10.239
sometimes distorted shadows danced on the walls
and the temperature in the house went down

926
01:16:10.319 --> 01:16:15.560
feeling a different cold. That morning
I braved myself and went back to his

927
01:16:15.640 --> 01:16:23.439
room, only this time the door
was ajar. As I looked out I

928
01:16:23.560 --> 01:16:28.359
saw her performing a strange ritual surrounded
by black candles and symbols she did not

929
01:16:28.359 --> 01:16:32.600
understand. It was so much my
astonishment that I felt a cold draught to

930
01:16:32.600 --> 01:16:36.479
my bones. I couldn' t
see much, but the little I looked

931
01:16:36.520 --> 01:16:42.800
at was enough to terrify me in
front of my aunt. There was something

932
01:16:42.960 --> 01:16:46.760
or someone so big that it almost
hit the ceiling. The room was too

933
01:16:46.840 --> 01:16:53.319
cold and a hoarse voice rumbled all
over the room. The things that spoke

934
01:16:53.359 --> 01:16:58.079
of Josefina, where they claimed that
she made covenants with the devil, seemed

935
01:16:58.079 --> 01:17:02.159
true. I had heard elsewhere that
once a man who had insulted her in

936
01:17:02.239 --> 01:17:10.479
public by calling her Witch was found
dead under unexplained circumstances. A few days

937
01:17:10.479 --> 01:17:15.159
later, although no one could prove
anything, their fear was great. That

938
01:17:15.279 --> 01:17:18.880
' s why most of the people
who visited her weren' t even from

939
01:17:18.880 --> 01:17:25.119
the village, they were from elsewhere. The next day I noticed her younger

940
01:17:25.359 --> 01:17:30.439
and better looking. He no longer
had that tired view and his hands were

941
01:17:30.439 --> 01:17:34.359
white and wrinkled. Surely at night
he had made a covenant with the evil

942
01:17:34.479 --> 01:17:40.840
one to regain his youth, although
he preferred not to find out in exchange

943
01:17:40.880 --> 01:17:44.680
for what time passed. It hurts
to say it, but my dad never

944
01:17:44.760 --> 01:17:46.920
went for me and my mom.
I didn' t know anything again.

945
01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:53.600
Josefina became my only family of good
luck, who had already become accustomed to

946
01:17:53.680 --> 01:17:58.560
living with her and with all the
things she did. I admit there was

947
01:17:58.600 --> 01:18:02.399
always a respect for her, an
admiration or maybe it was fear for anything.

948
01:18:03.239 --> 01:18:08.199
I never questioned him about the things
he was doing in his room when

949
01:18:08.199 --> 01:18:12.359
night fell. I never asked her
if she was a witch or if she

950
01:18:12.359 --> 01:18:15.239
talked to the unnamed one. Sometimes
other women arrived at dusk and entered Josefina

951
01:18:15.279 --> 01:18:20.960
' s room. They stayed there
almost until dawn. Sometimes they laughed or

952
01:18:21.000 --> 01:18:29.000
sang one night everything changed that day. Josefina had had an agitated day,

953
01:18:29.399 --> 01:18:33.119
tending to more people than usual,
including two haunted ones who spat on her.

954
01:18:34.399 --> 01:18:39.359
As evening fell, I found her
more exhausted than usual. His eyes

955
01:18:39.359 --> 01:18:45.359
reflected a deep tiredness. I realized
I was getting old again. At about

956
01:18:45.359 --> 01:18:50.239
eleven o' clock at night,
Josefina entered her room visibly tired. I

957
01:18:50.239 --> 01:18:55.640
was no longer afraid to think that
night I would talk to the devil and

958
01:18:55.680 --> 01:19:00.079
by morning I would be young as
ever. That' s why I lay

959
01:19:00.119 --> 01:19:03.199
quietly in my cot, but the
noises that night were different. They were

960
01:19:03.239 --> 01:19:09.680
not murmurs or feet dragging, they
were groans of pain. I got up

961
01:19:09.680 --> 01:19:13.359
scared. I tried to get into
his room, but he was stuck inside.

962
01:19:13.880 --> 01:19:17.399
Josefina crawled all over the room doing
it on the floor and perhaps through

963
01:19:17.399 --> 01:19:24.520
the walls. I could clearly hear
how things fell. The next morning I

964
01:19:25.159 --> 01:19:29.439
found her lying on her bed.
His skin was pale and cold. The

965
01:19:29.520 --> 01:19:33.119
most alarming thing is that he had
grown very old. He looked at me,

966
01:19:33.680 --> 01:19:38.800
murmured incoherent words, and his breath
was cut short. At times I

967
01:19:38.880 --> 01:19:44.760
became completely unaware. The only thing
I could understand was that the devil would

968
01:19:44.920 --> 01:19:48.119
no longer agree and that his death
was near. I wanted to go get

969
01:19:48.119 --> 01:19:51.600
a doctor, but she asked me
not to leave her alone because she was

970
01:19:51.600 --> 01:19:56.520
afraid of her. He who came
for her dawned with her about half a

971
01:19:56.600 --> 01:19:59.720
day and said goodbye to me.
He begged me never to mess with the

972
01:19:59.880 --> 01:20:02.319
devil' s day and stay away
from witchcraft. I said yes, as

973
01:20:02.560 --> 01:20:06.399
long as I resisted believing what I
was seeing. Her body was that of

974
01:20:06.439 --> 01:20:11.479
an old woman. Besides, he
was too skinny. The closest neighbors,

975
01:20:12.000 --> 01:20:15.479
when they found out that my aunt, Josefina, was dying, soon whispered

976
01:20:15.520 --> 01:20:20.960
that someone had managed to return one
of her annoying ills to her. I

977
01:20:21.079 --> 01:20:28.039
confronted them by claiming that Josefina was
a good healer, but they assured me

978
01:20:28.119 --> 01:20:31.920
that she was during the day,
because when it was dark she became a

979
01:20:31.960 --> 01:20:35.960
witch and did great evils. For
the same reason, there in the village,

980
01:20:36.479 --> 01:20:42.039
no one loved her. During the
same night, Josefina died in her

981
01:20:42.119 --> 01:20:46.880
room in deep silence. The next
morning I realized that I had fallen asleep.

982
01:20:48.279 --> 01:20:53.520
My aunt was on her bed face
down, had some wounds, maybe

983
01:20:53.560 --> 01:21:00.640
scratches or strong spankings, but I
hadn' t noticed anything. There was

984
01:21:00.720 --> 01:21:04.960
no formal funeral, so to speak. The few neighbors who dared to approach

985
01:21:04.960 --> 01:21:11.279
the house when I was watching her, did so only to make sure that

986
01:21:11.319 --> 01:21:15.039
she had really died. With the
help of who my husband is now,

987
01:21:15.600 --> 01:21:20.000
we buried her in the village cemetery
and for days, it was said,

988
01:21:20.279 --> 01:21:28.199
the place was wrapped in terrible screams
and paranormal manifestations so terrifying were that they

989
01:21:28.319 --> 01:21:31.439
asked to remove the body from the
pantheon, but there was no foundation for

990
01:21:31.439 --> 01:21:38.600
that. The following months were strange. Although Josefina' s room was empty,

991
01:21:39.119 --> 01:21:43.640
the heavy air and the feeling of
being observed every time she entered never

992
01:21:43.720 --> 01:21:48.520
disappeared at night. I thought I
saw my aunt' s silhouette, walking

993
01:21:48.560 --> 01:21:54.479
around the corners of the house.
The few visitors he had spoke of strangers,

994
01:21:54.520 --> 01:21:59.520
phenomena and sightings near his tomb.
Some said that their spirit had not

995
01:21:59.520 --> 01:22:04.720
found peace, others that still sought
revenge. I don' t know if

996
01:22:05.000 --> 01:22:10.079
I had to, but I did
everything to get my aunt to rest until

997
01:22:10.159 --> 01:22:13.359
a Mass in the People' s
Church. Something worked, because overnight,

998
01:22:13.880 --> 01:22:19.840
the demonstrations went down. Now,
as I remember those days, I wonder

999
01:22:19.960 --> 01:22:25.279
if everything I' ve lived can
be forgotten. The facts are clear.

1000
01:22:25.800 --> 01:22:30.720
Josefina was a woman with extraordinary powers
and her life was intertwined with forces that

1001
01:22:31.039 --> 01:22:36.159
I cannot and do not want to
fully understand. I will never offend her

1002
01:22:36.239 --> 01:22:41.760
memory by claiming she was a witch, but the reality is that every night

1003
01:22:41.880 --> 01:22:46.840
I feel her presence. Tales written
and adapted by Black Cat