PALO MAYOMBE, Trabajo Oscuro Con Sacrificio Historias De Terror - REDE

0:05 Palomayombe in the village where I was born. I lived until I was 15. It was a community that still retained the customs and traditions of the original peoples. Although all the other towns had adopted the practices of the city and we were surrounded by them, we did not have the influence of the city. Most of the inhabitants spoke our native language and Spanish. There were authorities that regulated the protection and security of the people, but it was not as such the police, but people from the same community were chosen to set a good example and witness to be commissioners. They were direct contact with the authorities of other localities. In my house I lived next to my three brothers and my parents were a common family like all in the village. My father, like everyone else, had a pruning piece of land that we planted every year was usually beans, corn or vegetables for family consumption. My dad got up from 4: 00 in the morning to go to the plot. When I was on vacation. I went with him every day, but when I went to school, he preferred me to stay and study. The same was true for the rest of my brothers. My mom stayed in the house to do the housework and prepare the food. Most of the time. What my father harvested from the land was for personal consumption. When there was better harvest,

1:38 we went down to the village that was on the slopes of the hill to sell the rest of the vegetables and seeds, but that happened very rarely, so my dad was looking for other means to get more income. My brother Raul, the greatest of all, told my parents that he wanted to go to work in the United States. It was the most common practice of young people or they went to the city to look for better luck or to the border country. When my brother told my dad that he was going to go with two other boys from the Community, he disagreed, because he wanted our family to stay together and if each of us went to different parts, it would no longer be the same. But my brother was determined. He had put together some money to pay for the coyote, as most of them did the same. There was already a contact who was in charge of crossing them if for some reason the money was not enough. He waited a little while for them to work and then settle the contracted debt. I am well aware that it was a Sunday in April when my brother said goodbye to everyone.

2:49 My parents gave him their blessing by asking him to take great care of himself and not to walk in bad steps. My brother made the promise to my parents that he would leave so that we would all have a better life and that he was interested in us going to the city to study. I can ' t deny it felt so ugly for my brother to leave. He was the one who had the most confidence to talk to you about my things. We had a very close relationship before we left. He hugged me by telling me that he wanted me to achieve my dream of going to the capital and that he would send me money to do it. I felt strange. When my brother left, it was like some kind of chest pain, but I didn' t understand why. That night he left, I had a very big upset. The house felt empty and I think it was because of the energies of sadness emanating from everyone. We didn' t even want dinner.

3:49 We went to bed on an empty stomach. The next day we all get up to do our daily activities. My father went to the plot, my mom got up early to go to the mill, grind the nixtamal. My two brothers and I were getting ready to go to school like they gave us breakfast there. It wasn' t necessary for my mom to feed us walking in ten minutes. My mother was also a healer and midwife of the village, although she followed her parents' traditions. He cured diseases by natural plants in the same way that his mother did. He did not charge a fee for his services. He told people that whatever they wanted to give him if for some reason someone didn' t have to pay him, his services paid him with corn beans and whatever they had. The way my mom worked was the way her parents taught her, as did my grandparents and great- grandparents.

4:51 It was a family tradition of many years. However, in the village not all people practiced the extra medicine or as many people from other places said, it was white witchcraft, although I did not agree that they would tell my mother witch. I rather thought she was a natural medicine doctor. In the village there were other people who did do other kinds of work. They did rituals to attract fortune, mooring even darker things, like casting out demons from people those people if they were originally from the village, but they had other kinds of customs, because their parents or grandparents had emigrated to another country and learned the hidden of the Palomay man had no idea what that was, but my mom told me never to go with any of them, because what they practiced was witchcraft and not exactly the good one. We all had a good relationship with the sorcerers, as we told them behind their backs, but we did not go with them. More people from other places were the ones who went with them. On many occasions people from the city came to notice it because they arrived in their cars with dark glasses and raincoats. Black color.

6:14 It seemed as if they wanted to hide their identity. But in the village they didn' t have to, as no one knew them. We knew they were from somewhere else and they came for the services of the sorcerers. There was one occasion when there was a big scandal. I remember it very well because that day was my birthday at my house. My mom made me a meal, made me a cake. That time we fell asleep later than usual, because I invited my friends and classmates from high school. We stayed outside talking and listening to music. When all of a sudden we hear a loud scream. Although the radio had the sound a little loud, we noticed the scream immediately to play the music. We were all looking forward to seeing what was going on. Again a dreadful cry was heard. One of my friends said it was at the sorcerer' s house. My mom came out telling me not to go, but I told her we' d only look a certain distance. I wasn' t gonna get in trouble. It was amazing what I saw hidden behind a leafy tree. I saw when a woman was outside the house of Don Nico the Sorcerer. The woman had a disfigured face. It seemed as if he had been lengthened in a strange way.

7:36 Then he began to shout words that I did not understand and again he uttered that disturbing cry that he had already heard. As he kept screaming, he began to contort in a strange way and began to walk. Bended entirely from her back, the sorcerer kept singing and dancing with her drum, while she kept moving very strangely. There was a time when he stopped and turned his head to where I was. Along with my friends, he ran very fast towards us. We went out screaming and running from there because of the fear he gave me. I didn' t care if they saw us.

8:18 When my mom arrived, she was waiting for us outside the house She had a branch of holy stick on. As soon as he saw us, he turned it off and smoke began to come out, which spread it around us. All tired, I began to tell her what we had seen She very quiet, told me that she had already asked me not to come to that house because many strange things happened. Most people in the village had already witnessed dark acts. That' s why he asked me not to. My mother continued to be sahumanized so that the bad energies that hit us would get away from us. My friends went home. I kept talking to my mom about what I' d seen. I was still very upset by the way that woman started following us. My mom' s very quiet. He told me it wasn' t the first time something like that happened. The kind of rituals they did were not good. That is why these events took place like the one I had witnessed. A little quieter. I went to rest still with the fresh memory of what I had witnessed. It had already been more than a month without having heard from my brother Raúl. My mom was desperately asking the moms whose kids had crossed the border. They told them it was normal. One of the ladies told my mom that when her son went abroad, it took her more than three months to hear from him, but to

9:50 be calm. Soon he would receive good news from Raúl, because when they were negative they immediately arrived in the village. Those words that didn' t make much sense served to make my mother calmer. That lady, she was very right. A few weeks later a letter came from my brother telling him that he was feeling very well, that he was already in the United States and that he was already working on strawberry harvesting. He asked my mom to go with Doña Carmen. She was the neighbor who was doing us the favor of lending her phone because at six o' clock in the afternoon she was going to see my mom so happy. She changed the family dynamics, not only did she get cheerful. Everyone in the house breathes relieved. My brother was feeling very well. When my mother went to Doña Carmen' s house a few minutes later, she picked up the phone. After we were talking to Raul for over an hour, he told my mom he was going to send him money. He gave her directions on where to receive it. That was the first time my brother sent the money to help us. Raúl sent every month enough for the house to be faked in a dignified way. We all stopped sleeping in one room. Soon the improvement began to be noticed, not only in the house, but also in the plot. He sent money

11:20 to buy more fertilizer seeds even to buy a horse. The economic situation in the house changed dramatically. Soon we began to realize the comments that people made some said that Raúl was in bad steps, others that he was trying to steal why they wondered where so much money came from if others had left and never did so many things. The rumors I heard in the village seemed like lies to me. I knew my brother and I knew he wasn' t able to get into improper things. My parents and brothers also thought and like me, there was a time when I went to high school together with some neighbors and passed by the house where they said they were doing witchcraft. Outside the house was the sorcerer. He stayed looking at us in a strange way.

12:15 I' d say he looked at us with malice. From that day on I found him everywhere. When I went to the market, I felt the look of someone it was him who wouldn' t take my eyes off me. The village was very safe, because most of us were known for a long time. Only the people who dedicated themselves to the Mayombe stick. We didn' t know much about them, but they already had a lot of time in town. Once upon a time in the night, there were screams from a woman. We were all asleep, we got up scared. My dad went out to see what was going on. I was Mrs Lola crying desperate. He said he couldn' t find his daughter Esther. She was the same age as me. He said his daughter hadn' t gotten to sleep. The whole town gave in to the task of searching for it.

13:09 The men accompanied the women to search the area. I went with my dad. He didn' t want me to do it, but I told her she was my high school roommate and the least I could do for her was look for her. We were on the mountain for over two hours and we couldn' t find Esther. I was going next to my dad. When I heard a noise from the other side towards a glen, I separated from the group and went carefully to see what was going on. What I saw was horrible. There was the same sorcerer who followed me a lot He had Esther in his arms She seemed dead Because of my age, I didn ' t think of what I was doing. I screamed scared pointing at the man, but he immediately ran and did not find him the men Esther lay without life on earth. But there was a strange thing they found in it.

14:03 His eyes had been taken out. Since I was the only one who saw the sorcerer, the People' s Commissar led me to testify. There were so many times that they questioned me and the way they did it, that I no longer knew if it had really been that man, because I had doubts, for by the darkness of the night there was only the moonlight. I couldn' t answer with certainty anymore. As I mentioned earlier, before Esther' s death happened, I found the sorcerer everywhere in doubt that he was following me. When I told my mom what was happening to me with that man, she persevered believing that maybe she wanted to do to me the same thing she did to Esther. I never knew what happened, but the sorcerer never stepped into jail. They just called him in and he had a good alibi. They stopped bothering him in town. No one was happy, but out of fear no one confronted him. We all knew the power of the Mayombe stick, so everything was left in silent comments at home.

15:13 Everything was going very well that year, during the rainy season. There were several cyclones nearby that led to torrential rains that flooded the plots, but as ours was at the top of the hill. So much water only served for the sowing to grow more. Almost the whole town did very bad that year. They didn' t have any crops. Instead, my father sold them corn, beans and vegetables at a reasonable price. As well as my father did, he was able to buy a few prayers, which made him sell milk. Apart from the help my brother gave us at home, the financial problems ended. Every day I saw the possibility of going to the chapel to study without taking away all my parents' savings. It was obvious that Raul was doing very well, too. My father was able to buy the house next to ours, which made our house bigger. In addition, the size of the corral was considerable. It seemed like everything was fine. On my way out to high school, I noticed symbols made of black ash at the entrance to the door. Before I left, I told my mother what I had found. She covered her mouth with her hand. He told me that was no good, so he immediately went to the temple. She asked me to accompany her as soon as we got to church. He told the priest

16:45 that he had been witchcrafted in his house. I wanted to break the spell with holy water. The father asked him to calm down. He gave my mom some holy water and we left the temple. I told my mom I had to go to high school to ignore what she found. Somebody probably wanted to scare us. I made that comment to my mom trying to calm her down because she was very upset. But the truth was that I too was afraid that the sorcerer of the people would have done us some curse. As a matter of coincidence, the bad news began to happen one day, all the dead prayers abated. When my dad saw them, he got so angry that he started throwing up. That was the event that triggered others. Also, when I entered the house, I felt a strange feeling, as if someone’ s gaze was present all the time. As I entered the house, I smelled something spoiled for more than looking in the fridge in the trash cans. I couldn' t figure out where it came from. My mom had the same thing going on, too. Inside the house there was a bad smell and it felt a strange cold. The bad news was happening one after the other. A plague fell on the crop that ruined most of the harvest. The worst news was when one day my brother Raúl spoke on the phone and told us he was going to stop sending money because he had become

18:18 ill. The doctors told him about a rare disease in which they were still in protocol to find the medication indicated. He was told that if he agreed to enter the process of taking experimental medications, although they did not yet know for sure what they were. Secondary reactions. It was a succession of unfortunate events that led my dad to bankruptcy, as the horses also got sick. Little by little they were dying in a short time. The splendor of the house ended up turning it into a worn property and FEA. The worst thing happened one night when I was asleep. I was awakened by a strange noise.

19:02 When I opened my eyes wide, I could see a being breathing very closely. I couldn' t see it clearly because of the darkness of my room and the terror I had. I wanted to scream, even though that monster stopped me, covering my mouth with his smelly, scratchy hand. I tried to get his hand out of my mouth, but he stopped me. It paralyzed me completely without me being able to do anything about it. I didn' t know if it was a few seconds or long minutes that I wasn' t allowed to move or scream. I began to tremble at the fear he gave me. It was a sense of terror, as I could look at his dark eyes completely black. I thought I' d die.

19:44 Then he walked away from me at that moment. I thought he was gonna hurt me, but he didn' t. He left and disappeared. That ' s when I could scream and call my parents. My mom was the first one to come into my room. I almost yelled at him because I was disturbing. My mom probably didn' t understand me because she went out to make tea for the nerves, while my dad stayed with me a little calmer, I could tell them everything. My dad got up upset and at the same time scared. He told us that we would leave town because he was afraid that worse things would continue to happen, perhaps to the point of being able to lament for not acting quickly. So in a few days we started packing our things. My dad sold what he could the house put it with the sign he sold and with how little we had left. We went out a very early morning, before the sun came up to the city.

20:45 My dad made the recommendation to my brothers, my mother and me not to say where we were going, because he was afraid the sorcerer would notice and follow us there. I didn' t want to leave the place where I was born. I really liked the town, its traditions, high school and my friends. I thought my father had made a hasty decision and maybe he was exaggerating. When we were on the road, in my father' s truck, he got off to get gas. At the time I took the opportunity to tell my mom that she must have done something. He just let my father decide for the whole family. He didn' t even take us into account. Besides, I thought I was overstepping things. My mom turned around with an angry face telling me not to question my dad' s decision.

21:42 If he did so, it was because many unfortunate things had already happened, such as the death of cattle and the loss of sowing, and that, although raul was far away, he too had received the attacks of the curse. I didn' t tell him anything anymore. My mom was quiet and very upset, while my brothers were also upset, but they didn' t say anything. At noon we arrived at the city, which seemed very large to me. Only once had he gone when he was younger, although now he was different. The People' s Commissar gave my dad an address where that person had a house for rent. The first thing we did was arrive with that gentleman who immediately showed us the house was smaller than ours, but I liked it. He taught my dad all the parts of the house and the businesses around her, without asking him for any documents like bal came to the deal and that day we had somewhere to rest. Although the house had no furniture, it was necessary to buy at least the necessary ones.

22:55 From the moment I entered the house I had a feeling of discomfort, something I didn' t like about it, but I thought it was because I didn' t like the idea of moving some household items, like the stove, dishes, the dining room. Yes, it was possible to carry them, but the beds and other furniture. Not my dad. After lowering our belongings, he left us the task of settling in what he was going to see a person who would give him work. My dad, apart from working the land and the animals, when I was younger, worked in construction, so it was to get the job. Since the first night I was in the new house, I couldn' t sleep and I don' t think I was the only one, because I listened to my parents murmur sometimes.

23:48 I heard my mom getting up in the bathroom, then she stayed in the living room for a while. The same thing happened to me, too. I heard strange noises when it was already very late in the night, but mostly I heard them hitting the wall It seemed that the house on the other side did not sleep almost every night was the same. The worst was when I heard a dry blow they hit on the wall where my bed was. The impact was so strong that my parents came in to see what was happening. My dad said the next day he' d talk to the neighbors because they were already bothering a lot. That night we could hardly sleep. I was about to get up when the noises stopped, but my dad had to go to work and I had to go to school. When I was on my way to high school, I looked at the apartment next door. I was surprised to see that it was not a house, but a business, as it had an iron curtain. My mom noticed, too. He made the comment that it was very strange, as it seemed like it was a business where there were no people at night, or maybe they were making repairs.

24:59 That' s why the noise in high school made me feel strange and uncomfortable. Everyone saw me and stared at me. It was like he was a weirdo they weren' t used to seeing. My brothers also said the same thing that in elementary school they laughed at them. That day when I returned from school, as soon as I entered the house, a damp tufo caused me to cover my nose. Even though my mom was cooking, the smells of food didn' t cover the unpleasant smell. I asked her if she had noticed that, too. He said no. When my dad arrived in the afternoon, it was the first thing he said. He said the weekend was going to fix the house. Surely there were many walls with saltpetre.

25:45 That' s why the smell is so annoying. Although there was no time for the weekend, as my mom got a call from my brother Raúl telling her it was very wrong. He was going back with us because most of the guy was in the hospital and he had no one to help him. He commented that he arrived the next day. We were all glad to know that my brother was returning. We' d finally be together, though not in the best of conditions, but we' d make it through. The next day, my dad went to work. I remember it very well, because it was Saturday and that day my brothers and I were home.

26:26 A man came knocking hard at the door. It was so desperate that my mom asked us to sit down. When he opened the door screaming, he said my dad had fallen off a scaffold and didn' t know if he was alive. Imagine the scare he gave us. We almost ran out my mom and I told my brothers not to leave. The poor were scared and crying. The construction my dad was working on was a few blocks away, so in minutes we were by his side. Around my dad there were several people trying to revive him, but he didn' t respond. He looked like he was dead. His eyes were completely blank. I saw my mom ' s face disfigured. He probably thought, like me, he was dead.

27:21 In the distance I heard the ambulance' s ulular. I felt a little joy to see that medical services were almost there to help my father, although I was also afraid that they would not take him away because he was dead. My head was a chaos of negative thoughts. When the paramedics approached my father, I got a little away from the crowd. I didn' t want to hear the fateful explanation. As I felt more desperate, I noticed a strange shadow moving through the wall of construction. I was attentive because I saw that he got into a hole on the same wall, but my mom' s desperate scream pulled me out of my observation screaming. He told me he' d go to the hospital with my dad to keep me in charge of my brothers. When I turned back to the wall where I saw that shadow slip away, there was nothing left. I thought it was all because of my nervousness. Besides, I was very happy to know that my dad hadn' t died just thinking about it I felt a little comforted.

28:29 I breathed more calmly and ran away with my brothers, as they were alone. As soon as he saw me, my little brother started crying. I had no idea what was going on, but I surely felt all the energies of fear that had been generated in my house. My mom took a long time to get there that night. I spent it alone with my brothers. It was my first time, so I felt distressed, without knowing the reason. I had a lot of oppression in my chest. I gave my brothers cereal dinner. I went to the store to get smaller bath milk and put him to sleep. It wasn' t even ten o' clock at night. When my brothers fell deeply asleep. So I wouldn' t feel afraid or be thinking terrible things about my dad I turned on TV looking for some comedy to wake up my nerves. I started hearing noises in the kitchen.

29:23 I thought one of my brothers got up in the bathroom and drank water. However, as they entered the kitchen there was no one. I went to my brothers' room. They were asleep, there was no sign of any of them getting up. I went back to the kitchen, found no one, so I went back to watch the movie. I was in front of the TV for over an hour. The dream began to make his own. I fell asleep on the couch until a knock on the door woke me abruptly. I immediately went to see who it was. I looked out for the peephole, but there was no one outside. Again, three heavy and dry blows were heard trying to make as little noise as possible. I looked like I couldn' t see anything. The same thing happened for the third time.

30:15 I didn' t know what to do anymore. I got very nervous to go around in the living room until they stopped playing. They didn' t bother again, but I couldn' t sleep quietly anymore. I turned off the TV and went to bed. I wasn' t sleepy, though I felt safer covered with the blanket. I didn' t know how long it was. I fell asleep in the morning. I heard, when my mom put the key in the lock, I got up as soon as I could there she was tired and unscathed. He told me my dad was feeling better, only there was something to tell me He had a spinal fracture, and most likely he couldn' t walk anymore. My mom would have hugged me crying and I did the same thing. When we calmed down, he told me that he only came for a bath and clothes and that he was going back to the hospital until my dad was discharged, leaving me in charge of my brothers. They were complex days in what, as possible, I helped my brothers to do the homework feeding them to take them to school.

31:22 The good news was it was only a few days. My dad got discharged. Five days after the accident, it was necessary to get a hospital bed to be able to attend to my dad as needed. The worst thing happened when the money started to run out of money with my brother Raúl. We didn' t count, because he was sick too. I had stopped sending money. The engineer in charge of the construction my father was working on was very good. One day he went to the house to visit him. He told him that the construction would do what was necessary to be compensated and, if he was a fool, to be pensioned for an accident at work.

32:02 Among all the bad news, at least there was something good, but not enough to cover all the expenses in the house. After the engineer left, my mom told me she was going to get a job because, to fix it from my dad' s pension it was going to take time, so I was going to go to the market that was near the house. There they could give him work in the kitchen or in the cleaning. My mother ’ s words hurt me a lot, as it was possible that in such a sudden way, we would have fallen into ruin. I told my mom I was about to finish high school and the summer vacation was on the doorstep.

32:44 He could also work to support the expenses. She smiled at me and said yes. The safest thing was that it was going to be necessary. That' s how my mom went to work on a food fund. He would come in at six in the morning and leave at three. While she was going to work, I managed to take my brothers to school and attend to my dad who was permanently in bed. It was not easy to be with him because his character had become bitter to him, who was a very hard- working person, and now to have to be lying in bed to help my mom. I changed to the afternoon shift at school. It was only a short time to conclude, so we all got along in the house.

33:34 As soon as I had a vacation, I went with the lady from the fonda, with whom my mother worked I asked her for work to wash the frets or deliver orders. The very kind lady smiled at me telling me that at the time she didn' t need me, but the place next door did send me with them to get me a job. How they realized my mom was the lady from the other place. They didn' t think so. They gave me the bike delivery job right away, so the next day I started working there. The good thing was that work allowed me to go around the house, my dad and my brothers. The market I was working on was very big and I had everything. It was divided into three floors, with food shops, sweet clothes and countless other things even esoteric locals who read the tarot cards the future moorings of everything. On one occasion I gave myself up at an esoteric place. The lady who attended him had a very curious accent. You could tell she wasn' t from the country.

34:42 He wore very striking colors and had a cloth that held his long Chinese hair. That woman smiled at me. He tipped me off his order before I left. He told me he could read the future in my hand. I thanked her and set out to leave, but she insisted on clarifying that it was free. I wasn' t going to get paid just because I was also a market worker. The first consultation was given at no more cost of commitment than, otherwise, I extended my hand to him. As soon as she took it, she looked at me very carefully. He asked me where he was from. I told him he was from a town three hours from the city. She nodded while I kept seeing the stripes in my hand.

35:30 Very well told me everything is wonderful. Tell your mom to come see me before she goes home. It was very strange that you told me that. I was hoping he' d make something up for me like I was gonna marry a handsome, rich boy or that guy' s garbage. However, she only asked me to go with her. As soon as I gave her the woman' s message, my mom scolded me. He told me not to go to those places. He had already warned me in the village and now he did it in the city if he didn' t even know that woman. His words hurt me because I didn' t even know how it all happened and he blamed me. I turned around without responding to her confrontation, as she yelled at me to come back and not leave. She was so upset I didn' t listen to her. My dad noticed everything and sent me to talk to my brother. He started telling me an anecdote that happened to a brother uncle of my mother and the way a sorcerer damaged him so much that he took his life. She asked me to understand my mom not to treat her like that. I was still upset, but I told my dad if I did, I' d talk to her before I left.

36:46 He asked me what that woman said to me I said nothing to me. She just asked me to go talk to her. Later I listened to my parents speaking r I couldn' t tell what they were saying, because they lowered my voice a lot with caution I approached to hear what they were saying. I stayed behind the couch. It wasn' t what I thought. They weren' t talking about me, they were talking about something that was going on in the house. My dad told my mom there was something in the house. I noticed it because I was doing nothing all the time, I listened to step without anyone being inside. They also fell frets for no apparent reason. Sometimes they knocked loudly at the door. It was a series of things that seemed strange to him. That' s why he asked my mom to go with that woman. Maybe I had something important to tell you. My mom told him she didn' t want to go. He had enough with the sorcerer of the people to carry on with such ideas in mind The best thing was to get away from all witchcraft. My father insisted, but my mother was reluctant not to, arguing that she had come from the village because of the evil of a sorcerer. He wasn' t going to expose himself to another one. He asked her to do it. There was something that didn' t let him have peace and he had a feeling.

38:14 My mother ignored my dad' s request. It wasn' t with the local woman, until one day she approached my mom. The fonda was about to close. All I had to do was set up the tables and my mom would be free. The woman told her she wanted to help her if she was willing to accept her support. Later, my mother approached the lady, who told her that she had been given a very powerful witchcraft job with the mayombre stick and that if she did not do something about it, she would continue to suffer misfortunes in the family. Some members might even die. She believed that my father' s accident had not been fortuitous, as a powerful shadow followed me most of the time. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He raised the need to protect his loved ones. I was waiting for her at her house in the afternoon, she gave her the address, but my mom decided not to go. With so much work in the house. We forgot a little bit about my brother Raúl until one unexpected day, while fixing my dad his bed and putting his candlestick on San Benito, they knocked on the door. I couldn' t believe my brother was in front of me. It was not easy to recognize him for a moment I doubted that he was him, as he was extremely thin pale with disheartened beard and mustache. I hugged him for a few seconds as tears rolled down his cheeks. That day my mom had gone out to buy the food. It was his day off when he arrived from the store,

39:47 he was surprised to see my brother. She also began to cry and was that my brother was in a deplorable condition. My dad asked what was going on from his room. I could only hear the voices. Raúl ran to see my dad. He didn' t know what had happened to him. They kept talking while I was going to work. With my brother' s arrival, the house felt different, I was no longer afraid, as all the time I had the feeling that someone was watching me or that they were following me, but I could never see anyone with his presence. I felt safe. My brother was sick and couldn' t go to work. He stayed in the house to take care of my dad and helped us with the chores of the house, but when he felt very bad, he was lying on his bed all day long, as strong chills were not taken away from him, even if he took fever medicine. In addition, it gave him a very severe headache that virtually disabled him. One night, while we were asleep, we woke up because we heard a lot of noises in the living room and in the kitchen. There seemed to be people inside, because voices were heard. We got up to see what was going on, but there was no one inside the house. When my brother lit the room light, everything was absolutely silent, only there was an inscription on the wall with black

41:19 ink. I didn' t understand what he was saying, but my parents did. We were all scared, because what we saw was the evidence that, indeed, someone was inside the house that night We stayed up very late. My mom told my brother all the things that had happened to us. My brother how bigger he was still remembered the death of my mother' s brother. He asked if there was anyone who wanted to harm them, because it was evident that it was a dark being who was inside the house. My mom couldn' t hold back anymore. She also saw a single dark woman walking at night throughout the house and believed that she had been the sorcerer of the village. No more hesitation. The next day, my mom went to the woman at the esoteric place. I couldn' t know what they were talking about, because that day I had a lot of orders to deliver.

42:19 All I saw was that the lady was giving my mom an envelope with a white powder. That day, after we left work, my mom went to the task of spreading the contents of the bag all over the house in every corner. He put it very carefully. When I asked him what it was, he told me that it was blessed and exorcised salt, that the woman immediately gave him. We heard a loud, snoring scream. We were all very scared. We got together around my dad' s bed. He pulled out an amulet he had among his belongings and asked us all to join hands with him. The screams and galloping didn' t stop until after a few minutes was when my mother, determinedly took her bag and went to the address given to her by the lady of the esoteric place took a long time to return. She was very startled. When she arrived nervously, she told me that in the afternoon I would go with her. My father immediately said that I would not be involved or put at risk. However, my mother told him that it was necessary for me to go because through me witchcraft had been done. The palero who did it. I wanted to take my life, keep my spirit and my soul. Because he didn' t make it, he did a very powerful witchcraft. That is why the calamities happened one after another and that he would not rest until his goal was achieved. And

43:51 even though we left town, its dark shadow followed me everywhere. My dad didn' t say anything anymore. He just felt. That afternoon we went with Mrs To her house, which was just a few blocks away from ours. His house was very old, with high windows and the door the same size as the windows. She showed up with the name Mary. He took us to a small room where he did all his jobs. It was filled with images of holy watchers and dry branches hanging everywhere. On one side I had a case of copper under a small stove. Inadvertently it made me think of the traditional witches who did their witchcraft in cauldrons, round and black, as if Mary had the ability to read it. Mind told me that I was absolutely right within the case I was going to perform the cleansing of my spirit. He sat me in the middle of the room. He lit the case with water and began to put different kinds of herbs, dried and fresh.

44:57 Then he went out with a black hen. Before doing anything, she told us she was going to make a sacrifice, but first she was going to make a bargain to call her dead, to protect her and us. Mary began to pray as she spoke to her dead. He had some kind of possession because he started convulsing. He didn' t fall to the floor, contorted in a grotesque way, and then left that trance and continued as if nothing had happened. He kept praying around me right away, untied the black hen before killing her, lifted her up, and then cut her neck, put the blood in a container. He gave it to me to drink from her. I made a gesture of repulsion telling her that I wasn' t going to drink that, but she insisted with a man' s voice as if she were possessed. He told me to drink it. I no longer hesitated to drink the red liquid, which was still hot. I felt the thickness of the blood. Passing through my throat, I was nauseous.

46:02 I wanted to throw up, but Maria told me to try not to because the ritual would be of no use. When he told me those words, his voice was the same. I held back as long as I could until the nausea disappeared. The ritual continued for more than an hour in moments. Mary looked like she was. In others their voice was distorted and their gaze was as if they were someone else. When Mary said it was over, I thought the nightmare was over. However, he told us that one more session was needed, as the witchcraft they made me was very powerful. His dead protector had revealed to him all the doveyombe they used. It was through the sacrifice of a human and that curse was very difficult to break Before we retired, he commented that it is if strange situations happened to us, the best thing was to ignore them and unite in prayer, because the spirit of the dead, of the palero who did the work to me would be more upset, for which there would be repercussions. When we left Maria' s house, I felt very bad. I felt extreme heaviness. I was just thinking about sleeping and resting. I didn' t know what my mom would look like because she saw a cab stop him and we went up to him even though the house was on scarce streets. When we arrived with my dad

47:32 and my brothers, they were very nervous. Raúl had gotten very bad. They had to call the ambulance to take him to the hospital. One of the neighbors did the favor of going with him, but my mom needed to go with my brother. With how bad I felt. I didn' t pay much attention to what happened. I went straight to my room and fell asleep. Most likely I slept more than 12 hours, because my brother and mother were already in the house. When I asked what had happened to Raúl, the doctors said it had only been a nervous breakdown, but my dad was furious because he saw how bad my brother had even become. My mom explained to my dad what the doctors said. He calmed down little by little.

48:23 I noticed my father desperate for nothing. His powerlessness was so much that he started screaming like crazy. My mother didn' t know what to do. It was a few distressing minutes because my dad couldn' t calm down. After a few minutes he was exhausted and fell asleep. My mother without saying anything. He began to pray next to the image of Saint Benedict that my father had. We both sensed what Mary had told us about. That day was terrible, but the night was worse. A little before two o ' clock in the morning we were awakened by the noises at the door knocking so loudly that we were afraid. My brother went to look out, but there was no one outside. Again they began to knock on the door with more force. Then all the frets began to hit the walls. They continued as if on the other side of the wall they were striking with such force that dust fell from the walls. We were afraid they' d be shot down. The only thing my mom thought of was getting out of the house because she was afraid for our lives. Outside in the desolate and dark street, we were all scared not knowing what to do or where to go.

49:43 The worst thing happened when a strong explosion caused the house to start burning. The black smoke coming out of the interior was transformed into an evil entity. The same smoke formed the face of a dark being. Soon the firemen arrived. Surely something n one of the neighbors called them because we had no head to do it. It was good that the house burned down, as the firefighters gave us medical assistance and a place to sleep at the same fire station took us only for that night. The next day, the whole colony had heard about what had happened. My mom and I didn' t go to work, but Maria came looking for us. He asked us if we had a place to stay. My crying mother said no. Mary suggested we go to the temple. The priest could help us. That' s how my mom did it. The father gave us temporary accommodation in what we got another place to live. That same day in the afternoon we went with Mary again.

50:47 She went on with the ritual, but this time she had a bone in her hands. My mother asked him what he was going to do. Maria told him not to be scared. It was a human bone. There was no other way to break Palomayombe' s dark work that they did to us, but she was not able to use a living human being. That ' s why he was carrying the bone from a human skeleton. It seemed more and more sinister to me what those people were doing, but we were already more than involved in that. So Mary continued with the ritual. He did the same thing the day before, unlike using human bone dust with a silver knife, he scraped it and deposited it in the iron case. The moment the dust fell inside the container, fire began to come out of the case. A horrible scream was heard. I clearly saw when a dark being was going straight to me. At that moment I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I was on the floor. There was only one sheet under my body. I was bathed in blood, but not HERA mine, Maria told me it was another black hen' s, but to be quiet.

52:05 It was all over. I did not feel calm, nor did I feel a general discomfort that prevented me from walking. I told Maria, but she assured me it was part of the aftermath of the ritual. It' ll all happen in a few days. We left Mary' s house with courage to the ground. In particular, I was not sure that everything was over, because even what Mary said was a very powerful ritual that the sorcerer of Palomayombe did. We arrived at the house that the parish father had lent us. As soon as the priest saw us, he told us that my brother Raul was very sick, He had fainted twice. It was necessary to take him to the hospital. My mom went with him. I stayed with my father and my brothers. During that day we didn' t hear from my mom. I was trying to communicate with her without getting it. It was hard hours because my dad was also complaining of a very strong pain in the spine even at night he spoke on the phone. My mom didn' t say anything. He stayed on the phone for a few seconds without saying words.

53:16 I was already scared. When I heard his voice cut, he asked me to pass the device to my dad He started crying screaming no. On more than one occasion. My mother' s call was to warn that my brother Raúl had just died. My father left the phone aside. I talked to my mother. She was crying too. Maybe it' s a tough decision my mom made. She spoke to the hospital authorities telling them that she had no money for her son' s burial. At the hospital. They offered him the help of incinerating my brother. If he required a wake- up room, he could do it in the lyms wake- up chapels.

53:58 It didn' t matter that I wasn' t insured, but my mom said no. From the room where my brother died, they took to cremate his body at hours. My mom came in with my brother' s remains in a white urn. My mother said she believed that the curse of the village palero fell on raul. In my mother' s face there was suffering, but also resignation. From that fateful day on, the people of the colony and the market that we knew helped us with pantry and to get another rental housing. Some gave us their old furniture that they no longer wanted, and my dad could start working somewhere else. My mom and I became great friends with Maria, with a certain frequency she visits us or we go to her house. She became our family and our protector because as soon as she noticed something strange immediately, she gave us some protective amulet or made us in the house a ritual of healing the spirit and the house. On one occasion I asked him how he wanted to help us if he knew how powerful the witchcraft of Palo Mayombe was. In addition, in the Budu sorcery, they all did harm with their rituals. Maria told me it wasn' t like that. Within the Buddhist rituals, not everyone was hurting. There were witches, like her, who were looking to do good with their knowledge and who

55:30 helped us, because she realized from the first day she saw me and when she held my hand to read the future, that there was a very powerful dark being that followed me and she was not going to stay calm until her goal was achieved, so she wanted to help me, since she had lost her daughter and her husband to witchcraft of Palomayombe. Now I was working to help remove the dark jobs, but especially with me, because he didn' t want me to lose my life. Story written and adapted by Adriana Cuevas