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

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Palomayombe in the village where I was
born. I lived until I was 15.

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It was a community that still retained
the customs and traditions of the original

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peoples. Although all the other towns
had adopted the practices of the city and

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we were surrounded by them, we
did not have the influence of the city.

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Most of the inhabitants spoke our native
language and Spanish. There were authorities

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that regulated the protection and security of
the people, but it was not as

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such the police, but people from
the same community were chosen to set a

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good example and witness to be commissioners. They were direct contact with the authorities

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of other localities. In my house
I lived next to my three brothers and

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my parents were a common family like
all in the village. My father,

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like everyone else, had a pruning
piece of land that we planted every year

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was usually beans, corn or vegetables
for family consumption. My dad got up

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from 4: 00 in the morning
to go to the plot. When I

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was on vacation. I went with
him every day, but when I went

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to school, he preferred me to
stay and study. The same was true

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for the rest of my brothers.
My mom stayed in the house to do

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the housework and prepare the food.
Most of the time. What my father

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harvested from the land was for personal
consumption. When there was better harvest,

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we went down to the village that
was on the slopes of the hill to

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sell the rest of the vegetables and
seeds, but that happened very rarely,

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so my dad was looking for other
means to get more income. My brother

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Raul, the greatest of all,
told my parents that he wanted to go

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to work in the United States.
It was the most common practice of young

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people or they went to the city
to look for better luck or to the

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border country. When my brother told
my dad that he was going to go

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with two other boys from the Community, he disagreed, because he wanted our

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family to stay together and if each
of us went to different parts, it

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would no longer be the same.
But my brother was determined. He had

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put together some money to pay for
the coyote, as most of them did

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the same. There was already a
contact who was in charge of crossing them

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if for some reason the money was
not enough. He waited a little while

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for them to work and then settle
the contracted debt. I am well aware

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that it was a Sunday in April
when my brother said goodbye to everyone.

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My parents gave him their blessing by
asking him to take great care of himself

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and not to walk in bad steps. My brother made the promise to my

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parents that he would leave so that
we would all have a better life and

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that he was interested in us going
to the city to study. I can

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' t deny it felt so ugly
for my brother to leave. He was

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the one who had the most confidence
to talk to you about my things.

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We had a very close relationship before
we left. He hugged me by telling

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me that he wanted me to achieve
my dream of going to the capital and

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that he would send me money to
do it. I felt strange. When

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my brother left, it was like
some kind of chest pain, but I

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didn' t understand why. That
night he left, I had a very

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big upset. The house felt empty
and I think it was because of the

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energies of sadness emanating from everyone.
We didn' t even want dinner.

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We went to bed on an empty
stomach. The next day we all get

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up to do our daily activities.
My father went to the plot, my

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mom got up early to go to
the mill, grind the nixtamal. My

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two brothers and I were getting ready
to go to school like they gave us

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breakfast there. It wasn' t
necessary for my mom to feed us walking

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in ten minutes. My mother was
also a healer and midwife of the village,

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although she followed her parents' traditions. He cured diseases by natural plants

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in the same way that his mother
did. He did not charge a fee

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for his services. He told people
that whatever they wanted to give him if

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for some reason someone didn' t
have to pay him, his services paid

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him with corn beans and whatever they
had. The way my mom worked was

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the way her parents taught her,
as did my grandparents and great- grandparents.

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It was a family tradition of many
years. However, in the village

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not all people practiced the extra medicine
or as many people from other places said,

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it was white witchcraft, although I
did not agree that they would tell

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my mother witch. I rather thought
she was a natural medicine doctor. In

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the village there were other people who
did do other kinds of work. They

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did rituals to attract fortune, mooring
even darker things, like casting out demons

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from people those people if they were
originally from the village, but they had

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other kinds of customs, because their
parents or grandparents had emigrated to another country

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and learned the hidden of the Palomay
man had no idea what that was,

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but my mom told me never to
go with any of them, because what

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they practiced was witchcraft and not exactly
the good one. We all had a

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good relationship with the sorcerers, as
we told them behind their backs, but

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we did not go with them.
More people from other places were the ones

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who went with them. On many
occasions people from the city came to notice

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it because they arrived in their cars
with dark glasses and raincoats. Black color.

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It seemed as if they wanted to
hide their identity. But in the

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village they didn' t have to, as no one knew them. We

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knew they were from somewhere else and
they came for the services of the sorcerers.

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There was one occasion when there was
a big scandal. I remember it

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very well because that day was my
birthday at my house. My mom made

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me a meal, made me a
cake. That time we fell asleep later

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than usual, because I invited my
friends and classmates from high school. We

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stayed outside talking and listening to music. When all of a sudden we hear

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a loud scream. Although the radio
had the sound a little loud, we

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noticed the scream immediately to play the
music. We were all looking forward to

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seeing what was going on. Again
a dreadful cry was heard. One of

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my friends said it was at the
sorcerer' s house. My mom came

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out telling me not to go,
but I told her we' d only

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look a certain distance. I wasn' t gonna get in trouble. It

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was amazing what I saw hidden behind
a leafy tree. I saw when a

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woman was outside the house of Don
Nico the Sorcerer. The woman had a

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disfigured face. It seemed as if
he had been lengthened in a strange way.

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Then he began to shout words that
I did not understand and again he

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uttered that disturbing cry that he had
already heard. As he kept screaming,

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he began to contort in a strange
way and began to walk. Bended entirely

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from her back, the sorcerer kept
singing and dancing with her drum, while

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she kept moving very strangely. There
was a time when he stopped and turned

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his head to where I was.
Along with my friends, he ran very

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fast towards us. We went out
screaming and running from there because of the

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fear he gave me. I didn' t care if they saw us.

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When my mom arrived, she was
waiting for us outside the house She had

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a branch of holy stick on.
As soon as he saw us, he

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turned it off and smoke began to
come out, which spread it around us.

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All tired, I began to tell
her what we had seen She very

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quiet, told me that she had
already asked me not to come to that

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house because many strange things happened.
Most people in the village had already witnessed

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dark acts. That' s why
he asked me not to. My mother

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continued to be sahumanized so that the
bad energies that hit us would get away

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from us. My friends went home. I kept talking to my mom about

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what I' d seen. I
was still very upset by the way that

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woman started following us. My mom' s very quiet. He told me

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it wasn' t the first time
something like that happened. The kind of

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rituals they did were not good.
That is why these events took place like

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the one I had witnessed. A
little quieter. I went to rest still

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with the fresh memory of what I
had witnessed. It had already been more

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than a month without having heard from
my brother Raúl. My mom was desperately

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asking the moms whose kids had crossed
the border. They told them it was

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normal. One of the ladies told
my mom that when her son went abroad,

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it took her more than three months
to hear from him, but to

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be calm. Soon he would receive
good news from Raúl, because when they

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were negative they immediately arrived in the
village. Those words that didn' t

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make much sense served to make my
mother calmer. That lady, she was

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very right. A few weeks later
a letter came from my brother telling him

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that he was feeling very well,
that he was already in the United States

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and that he was already working on
strawberry harvesting. He asked my mom to

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go with Doña Carmen. She was
the neighbor who was doing us the favor

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of lending her phone because at six
o' clock in the afternoon she was

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going to see my mom so happy. She changed the family dynamics, not

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only did she get cheerful. Everyone
in the house breathes relieved. My brother

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was feeling very well. When my
mother went to Doña Carmen' s house

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a few minutes later, she picked
up the phone. After we were talking

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to Raul for over an hour,
he told my mom he was going to

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send him money. He gave her
directions on where to receive it. That

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was the first time my brother sent
the money to help us. Raúl sent

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every month enough for the house to
be faked in a dignified way. We

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all stopped sleeping in one room.
Soon the improvement began to be noticed,

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not only in the house, but
also in the plot. He sent money

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to buy more fertilizer seeds even to
buy a horse. The economic situation in

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the house changed dramatically. Soon we
began to realize the comments that people made

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some said that Raúl was in bad
steps, others that he was trying to

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steal why they wondered where so much
money came from if others had left and

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never did so many things. The
rumors I heard in the village seemed like

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lies to me. I knew my
brother and I knew he wasn' t

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able to get into improper things.
My parents and brothers also thought and like

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me, there was a time when
I went to high school together with some

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neighbors and passed by the house where
they said they were doing witchcraft. Outside

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the house was the sorcerer. He
stayed looking at us in a strange way.

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I' d say he looked at
us with malice. From that day

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on I found him everywhere. When
I went to the market, I felt

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the look of someone it was him
who wouldn' t take my eyes off

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me. The village was very safe, because most of us were known for

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a long time. Only the people
who dedicated themselves to the Mayombe stick.

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We didn' t know much about
them, but they already had a lot

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of time in town. Once upon
a time in the night, there were

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screams from a woman. We were
all asleep, we got up scared.

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My dad went out to see what
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crying desperate. He said he couldn' t find his daughter Esther. She

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was the same age as me.
He said his daughter hadn' t gotten

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to sleep. The whole town gave
in to the task of searching for it.

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The men accompanied the women to search
the area. I went with my

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dad. He didn' t want
me to do it, but I told

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her she was my high school roommate
and the least I could do for her

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was look for her. We were
on the mountain for over two hours and

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we couldn' t find Esther.
I was going next to my dad.

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When I heard a noise from the
other side towards a glen, I separated

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from the group and went carefully to
see what was going on. What I

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saw was horrible. There was the
same sorcerer who followed me a lot He

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had Esther in his arms She seemed
dead Because of my age, I didn

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' t think of what I was
doing. I screamed scared pointing at the

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man, but he immediately ran and
did not find him the men Esther lay

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without life on earth. But there
was a strange thing they found in it.

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His eyes had been taken out.
Since I was the only one who

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saw the sorcerer, the People'
s Commissar led me to testify. There

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were so many times that they questioned
me and the way they did it,

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that I no longer knew if it
had really been that man, because I

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had doubts, for by the darkness
of the night there was only the moonlight.

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I couldn' t answer with certainty
anymore. As I mentioned earlier,

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before Esther' s death happened,
I found the sorcerer everywhere in doubt that

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he was following me. When I
told my mom what was happening to me

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with that man, she persevered believing
that maybe she wanted to do to me

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the same thing she did to Esther. I never knew what happened, but

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the sorcerer never stepped into jail.
They just called him in and he had

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a good alibi. They stopped bothering
him in town. No one was happy,

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but out of fear no one confronted
him. We all knew the power

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of the Mayombe stick, so everything
was left in silent comments at home.

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Everything was going very well that year, during the rainy season. There were

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several cyclones nearby that led to torrential
rains that flooded the plots, but as

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ours was at the top of the
hill. So much water only served for

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the sowing to grow more. Almost
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They didn' t have any crops. Instead, my father sold them

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corn, beans and vegetables at a
reasonable price. As well as my father

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did, he was able to buy
a few prayers, which made him sell

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milk. Apart from the help my
brother gave us at home, the financial

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problems ended. Every day I saw
the possibility of going to the chapel to

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study without taking away all my parents' savings. It was obvious that Raul

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was doing very well, too.
My father was able to buy the house

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next to ours, which made our
house bigger. In addition, the size

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of the corral was considerable. It
seemed like everything was fine. On my

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way out to high school, I
noticed symbols made of black ash at the

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entrance to the door. Before I
left, I told my mother what I

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had found. She covered her mouth
with her hand. He told me that

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was no good, so he immediately
went to the temple. She asked me

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to accompany her as soon as we
got to church. He told the priest

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that he had been witchcrafted in his
house. I wanted to break the spell

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with holy water. The father asked
him to calm down. He gave my

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mom some holy water and we left
the temple. I told my mom I

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had to go to high school to
ignore what she found. Somebody probably wanted

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to scare us. I made that
comment to my mom trying to calm her

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down because she was very upset.
But the truth was that I too was

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afraid that the sorcerer of the people
would have done us some curse. As

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a matter of coincidence, the bad
news began to happen one day, all

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the dead prayers abated. When my
dad saw them, he got so angry

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that he started throwing up. That
was the event that triggered others. Also,

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when I entered the house, I
felt a strange feeling, as if

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someone’ s gaze was present all
the time. As I entered the house,

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I smelled something spoiled for more than
looking in the fridge in the trash

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cans. I couldn' t figure
out where it came from. My mom

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had the same thing going on,
too. Inside the house there was a

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bad smell and it felt a strange
cold. The bad news was happening one

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after the other. A plague fell
on the crop that ruined most of the

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harvest. The worst news was when
one day my brother Raúl spoke on the

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phone and told us he was going
to stop sending money because he had become

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ill. The doctors told him about
a rare disease in which they were still

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in protocol to find the medication indicated. He was told that if he agreed

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to enter the process of taking experimental
medications, although they did not yet know

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for sure what they were. Secondary
reactions. It was a succession of unfortunate

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events that led my dad to bankruptcy, as the horses also got sick.

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Little by little they were dying in
a short time. The splendor of the

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house ended up turning it into a
worn property and FEA. The worst thing

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happened one night when I was asleep. I was awakened by a strange noise.

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When I opened my eyes wide,
I could see a being breathing very

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closely. I couldn' t see
it clearly because of the darkness of my

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room and the terror I had.
I wanted to scream, even though that

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monster stopped me, covering my mouth
with his smelly, scratchy hand. I

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tried to get his hand out of
my mouth, but he stopped me.

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It paralyzed me completely without me being
able to do anything about it. I

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didn' t know if it was
a few seconds or long minutes that I

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wasn' t allowed to move or
scream. I began to tremble at the

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fear he gave me. It was
a sense of terror, as I could

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look at his dark eyes completely black. I thought I' d die.

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Then he walked away from me at
that moment. I thought he was gonna

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hurt me, but he didn'
t. He left and disappeared. That

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' s when I could scream and
call my parents. My mom was the

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first one to come into my room. I almost yelled at him because I

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was disturbing. My mom probably didn' t understand me because she went out

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to make tea for the nerves,
while my dad stayed with me a little

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calmer, I could tell them everything. My dad got up upset and at

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the same time scared. He told
us that we would leave town because he

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was afraid that worse things would continue
to happen, perhaps to the point of

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being able to lament for not acting
quickly. So in a few days we

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started packing our things. My dad
sold what he could the house put it

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with the sign he sold and with
how little we had left. We went

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out a very early morning, before
the sun came up to the city.

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My dad made the recommendation to my
brothers, my mother and me not to

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say where we were going, because
he was afraid the sorcerer would notice and

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follow us there. I didn'
t want to leave the place where I

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was born. I really liked the
town, its traditions, high school and

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my friends. I thought my father
had made a hasty decision and maybe he

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was exaggerating. When we were on
the road, in my father' s

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truck, he got off to get
gas. At the time I took the

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opportunity to tell my mom that she
must have done something. He just let

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my father decide for the whole family. He didn' t even take us

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into account. Besides, I thought
I was overstepping things. My mom turned

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around with an angry face telling me
not to question my dad' s decision.

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If he did so, it was
because many unfortunate things had already happened,

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such as the death of cattle and
the loss of sowing, and that,

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although raul was far away, he
too had received the attacks of the

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curse. I didn' t tell
him anything anymore. My mom was quiet

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and very upset, while my brothers
were also upset, but they didn'

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t say anything. At noon we
arrived at the city, which seemed very

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large to me. Only once had
he gone when he was younger, although

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now he was different. The People' s Commissar gave my dad an address

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where that person had a house for
rent. The first thing we did was

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arrive with that gentleman who immediately showed
us the house was smaller than ours,

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but I liked it. He taught
my dad all the parts of the house

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and the businesses around her, without
asking him for any documents like bal came

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to the deal and that day we
had somewhere to rest. Although the house

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had no furniture, it was necessary
to buy at least the necessary ones.

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From the moment I entered the house
I had a feeling of discomfort, something

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I didn' t like about it, but I thought it was because I

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didn' t like the idea of
moving some household items, like the stove,

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dishes, the dining room. Yes, it was possible to carry them,

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but the beds and other furniture.
Not my dad. After lowering our

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belongings, he left us the task
of settling in what he was going to

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see a person who would give him
work. My dad, apart from working

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the land and the animals, when
I was younger, worked in construction,

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so it was to get the job. Since the first night I was in

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the new house, I couldn'
t sleep and I don' t think

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I was the only one, because
I listened to my parents murmur sometimes.

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I heard my mom getting up in
the bathroom, then she stayed in the

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living room for a while. The
same thing happened to me, too.

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I heard strange noises when it was
already very late in the night, but

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mostly I heard them hitting the wall
It seemed that the house on the other

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side did not sleep almost every night
was the same. The worst was when

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I heard a dry blow they hit
on the wall where my bed was.

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The impact was so strong that my
parents came in to see what was happening.

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My dad said the next day he' d talk to the neighbors because

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they were already bothering a lot.
That night we could hardly sleep. I

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was about to get up when the
noises stopped, but my dad had to

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go to work and I had to
go to school. When I was on

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my way to high school, I
looked at the apartment next door. I

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was surprised to see that it was
not a house, but a business,

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as it had an iron curtain.
My mom noticed, too. He made

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the comment that it was very strange, as it seemed like it was a

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business where there were no people at
night, or maybe they were making repairs.

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That' s why the noise in
high school made me feel strange and

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uncomfortable. Everyone saw me and stared
at me. It was like he was

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a weirdo they weren' t used
to seeing. My brothers also said the

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same thing that in elementary school they
laughed at them. That day when I

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returned from school, as soon as
I entered the house, a damp tufo

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caused me to cover my nose.
Even though my mom was cooking, the

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smells of food didn' t cover
the unpleasant smell. I asked her if

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she had noticed that, too.
He said no. When my dad arrived

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in the afternoon, it was the
first thing he said. He said the

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weekend was going to fix the house. Surely there were many walls with saltpetre.

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That' s why the smell is
so annoying. Although there was no

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time for the weekend, as my
mom got a call from my brother Raúl

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telling her it was very wrong.
He was going back with us because most

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of the guy was in the hospital
and he had no one to help him.

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He commented that he arrived the next
day. We were all glad to

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know that my brother was returning.
We' d finally be together, though

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not in the best of conditions,
but we' d make it through.

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The next day, my dad went
to work. I remember it very well,

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because it was Saturday and that day
my brothers and I were home.

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A man came knocking hard at the
door. It was so desperate that my

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mom asked us to sit down.
When he opened the door screaming, he

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said my dad had fallen off a
scaffold and didn' t know if he

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was alive. Imagine the scare he
gave us. We almost ran out my

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mom and I told my brothers not
to leave. The poor were scared and

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crying. The construction my dad was
working on was a few blocks away,

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so in minutes we were by his
side. Around my dad there were several

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people trying to revive him, but
he didn' t respond. He looked

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like he was dead. His eyes
were completely blank. I saw my mom

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' s face disfigured. He probably
thought, like me, he was dead.

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In the distance I heard the ambulance' s ulular. I felt a

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little joy to see that medical services
were almost there to help my father,

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although I was also afraid that they
would not take him away because he was

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dead. My head was a chaos
of negative thoughts. When the paramedics approached

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my father, I got a little
away from the crowd. I didn'

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t want to hear the fateful explanation. As I felt more desperate, I

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noticed a strange shadow moving through the
wall of construction. I was attentive because

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I saw that he got into a
hole on the same wall, but my

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mom' s desperate scream pulled me
out of my observation screaming. He told

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me he' d go to the
hospital with my dad to keep me in

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charge of my brothers. When I
turned back to the wall where I saw

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that shadow slip away, there was
nothing left. I thought it was all

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because of my nervousness. Besides,
I was very happy to know that my

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dad hadn' t died just thinking
about it I felt a little comforted.

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I breathed more calmly and ran away
with my brothers, as they were alone.

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As soon as he saw me,
my little brother started crying. I

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had no idea what was going on, but I surely felt all the energies

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of fear that had been generated in
my house. My mom took a long

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time to get there that night.
I spent it alone with my brothers.

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It was my first time, so
I felt distressed, without knowing the reason.

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I had a lot of oppression in
my chest. I gave my brothers

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cereal dinner. I went to the
store to get smaller bath milk and put

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him to sleep. It wasn'
t even ten o' clock at night.

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When my brothers fell deeply asleep.
So I wouldn' t feel afraid

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or be thinking terrible things about my
dad I turned on TV looking for some

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comedy to wake up my nerves.
I started hearing noises in the kitchen.

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I thought one of my brothers got
up in the bathroom and drank water.

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However, as they entered the kitchen
there was no one. I went to

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my brothers' room. They were
asleep, there was no sign of any

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of them getting up. I went
back to the kitchen, found no one,

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so I went back to watch the
movie. I was in front of

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the TV for over an hour.
The dream began to make his own.

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I fell asleep on the couch until
a knock on the door woke me abruptly.

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I immediately went to see who it
was. I looked out for the

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peephole, but there was no one
outside. Again, three heavy and dry

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blows were heard trying to make as
little noise as possible. I looked like

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I couldn' t see anything.
The same thing happened for the third time.

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I didn' t know what to
do anymore. I got very nervous

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to go around in the living room
until they stopped playing. They didn'

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t bother again, but I couldn' t sleep quietly anymore. I turned

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off the TV and went to bed. I wasn' t sleepy, though

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I felt safer covered with the blanket. I didn' t know how long

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it was. I fell asleep in
the morning. I heard, when my

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mom put the key in the lock, I got up as soon as I

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could there she was tired and unscathed. He told me my dad was feeling

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better, only there was something to
tell me He had a spinal fracture,

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and most likely he couldn' t
walk anymore. My mom would have hugged

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me crying and I did the same
thing. When we calmed down, he

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told me that he only came for
a bath and clothes and that he was

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going back to the hospital until my
dad was discharged, leaving me in charge

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of my brothers. They were complex
days in what, as possible, I

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helped my brothers to do the homework
feeding them to take them to school.

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The good news was it was only
a few days. My dad got discharged.

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Five days after the accident, it
was necessary to get a hospital bed

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to be able to attend to my
dad as needed. The worst thing happened

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when the money started to run out
of money with my brother Raúl. We

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didn' t count, because he
was sick too. I had stopped sending

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money. The engineer in charge of
the construction my father was working on was

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very good. One day he went
to the house to visit him. He

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told him that the construction would do
what was necessary to be compensated and,

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if he was a fool, to
be pensioned for an accident at work.

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Among all the bad news, at
least there was something good, but not

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enough to cover all the expenses in
the house. After the engineer left,

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my mom told me she was going
to get a job because, to fix

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it from my dad' s pension
it was going to take time, so

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I was going to go to the
market that was near the house. There

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they could give him work in the
kitchen or in the cleaning. My mother

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’ s words hurt me a lot, as it was possible that in such

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a sudden way, we would have
fallen into ruin. I told my mom

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I was about to finish high school
and the summer vacation was on the doorstep.

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He could also work to support the
expenses. She smiled at me and

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said yes. The safest thing was
that it was going to be necessary.

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That' s how my mom went
to work on a food fund. He

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would come in at six in the
morning and leave at three. While she

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was going to work, I managed
to take my brothers to school and attend

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to my dad who was permanently in
bed. It was not easy to be

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with him because his character had become
bitter to him, who was a very

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hard- working person, and now
to have to be lying in bed to

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help my mom. I changed to
the afternoon shift at school. It was

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only a short time to conclude,
so we all got along in the house.

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As soon as I had a vacation, I went with the lady from

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00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:42.759
the fonda, with whom my mother
worked I asked her for work to wash

415
00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:45.799
the frets or deliver orders. The
very kind lady smiled at me telling me

416
00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:50.519
that at the time she didn'
t need me, but the place next

417
00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:53.400
door did send me with them to
get me a job. How they realized

418
00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:58.440
my mom was the lady from the
other place. They didn' t think

419
00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:02.720
so. They gave me the bike
delivery job right away, so the next

420
00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:09.199
day I started working there. The
good thing was that work allowed me to

421
00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:14.480
go around the house, my dad
and my brothers. The market I was

422
00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:19.599
working on was very big and I
had everything. It was divided into three

423
00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:25.199
floors, with food shops, sweet
clothes and countless other things even esoteric locals

424
00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:34.239
who read the tarot cards the future
moorings of everything. On one occasion I

425
00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:38.039
gave myself up at an esoteric place. The lady who attended him had a

426
00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:42.199
very curious accent. You could tell
she wasn' t from the country.

427
00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:47.199
He wore very striking colors and had
a cloth that held his long Chinese hair.

428
00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:52.119
That woman smiled at me. He
tipped me off his order before I

429
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:57.679
left. He told me he could
read the future in my hand. I

430
00:34:57.719 --> 00:35:02.159
thanked her and set out to leave, but she insisted on clarifying that it

431
00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:07.519
was free. I wasn' t
going to get paid just because I was

432
00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:10.559
also a market worker. The first
consultation was given at no more cost of

433
00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:15.880
commitment than, otherwise, I extended
my hand to him. As soon as

434
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:20.360
she took it, she looked at
me very carefully. He asked me where

435
00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:23.159
he was from. I told him
he was from a town three hours from

436
00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:29.559
the city. She nodded while I
kept seeing the stripes in my hand.

437
00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:35.599
Very well told me everything is wonderful. Tell your mom to come see me

438
00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:39.639
before she goes home. It was
very strange that you told me that.

439
00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:45.079
I was hoping he' d make
something up for me like I was gonna

440
00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:49.639
marry a handsome, rich boy or
that guy' s garbage. However,

441
00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:53.880
she only asked me to go with
her. As soon as I gave her

442
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:58.360
the woman' s message, my
mom scolded me. He told me not

443
00:35:58.360 --> 00:36:02.039
to go to those places. He
had already warned me in the village and

444
00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:07.119
now he did it in the city
if he didn' t even know that

445
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:12.320
woman. His words hurt me because
I didn' t even know how it

446
00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:15.199
all happened and he blamed me.
I turned around without responding to her confrontation,

447
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:20.360
as she yelled at me to come
back and not leave. She was

448
00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:22.719
so upset I didn' t listen
to her. My dad noticed everything and

449
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:28.519
sent me to talk to my brother. He started telling me an anecdote that

450
00:36:28.599 --> 00:36:31.559
happened to a brother uncle of my
mother and the way a sorcerer damaged him

451
00:36:31.639 --> 00:36:37.760
so much that he took his life. She asked me to understand my mom

452
00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:43.400
not to treat her like that.
I was still upset, but I told

453
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:46.719
my dad if I did, I' d talk to her before I left.

454
00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:52.679
He asked me what that woman said
to me I said nothing to me.

455
00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:58.920
She just asked me to go talk
to her. Later I listened to

456
00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:04.159
my parents speaking r I couldn'
t tell what they were saying, because

457
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:07.440
they lowered my voice a lot with
caution I approached to hear what they were

458
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:09.639
saying. I stayed behind the couch. It wasn' t what I thought.

459
00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:14.960
They weren' t talking about me, they were talking about something that

460
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:16.239
was going on in the house.
My dad told my mom there was something

461
00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:22.400
in the house. I noticed it
because I was doing nothing all the time,

462
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:28.599
I listened to step without anyone being
inside. They also fell frets for

463
00:37:28.679 --> 00:37:34.800
no apparent reason. Sometimes they knocked
loudly at the door. It was a

464
00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:37.239
series of things that seemed strange to
him. That' s why he asked

465
00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:42.639
my mom to go with that woman. Maybe I had something important to tell

466
00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:45.800
you. My mom told him she
didn' t want to go. He

467
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:50.159
had enough with the sorcerer of the
people to carry on with such ideas in

468
00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:54.760
mind The best thing was to get
away from all witchcraft. My father insisted,

469
00:37:55.280 --> 00:38:00.079
but my mother was reluctant not to, arguing that she had come from

470
00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:05.280
the village because of the evil of
a sorcerer. He wasn' t going

471
00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:08.800
to expose himself to another one.
He asked her to do it. There

472
00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:13.599
was something that didn' t let
him have peace and he had a feeling.

473
00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:17.519
My mother ignored my dad' s
request. It wasn' t with

474
00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:22.480
the local woman, until one day
she approached my mom. The fonda was

475
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:28.000
about to close. All I had
to do was set up the tables and

476
00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:30.239
my mom would be free. The
woman told her she wanted to help her

477
00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:35.679
if she was willing to accept her
support. Later, my mother approached the

478
00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:39.000
lady, who told her that she
had been given a very powerful witchcraft job

479
00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:45.000
with the mayombre stick and that if
she did not do something about it,

480
00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:51.639
she would continue to suffer misfortunes in
the family. Some members might even die.

481
00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:55.079
She believed that my father' s
accident had not been fortuitous, as

482
00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:59.400
a powerful shadow followed me most of
the time. No, no, no,

483
00:38:59.400 --> 00:38:59.400
no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

484
00:38:59.400 --> 00:38:59.400
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

485
00:38:59.400 --> 00:38:59.400
no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

486
00:38:59.400 --> 00:38:59.400
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

487
00:38:59.400 --> 00:38:59.400
no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

488
00:38:59.400 --> 00:38:59.400
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

489
00:38:59.400 --> 00:38:59.400
no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

490
00:38:59.400 --> 00:38:59.400
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

491
00:38:59.400 --> 00:38:59.400
no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

492
00:38:59.400 --> 00:38:59.599
no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no,

493
00:38:59.599 --> 00:38:59.599
no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

494
00:38:59.599 --> 00:38:59.599
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

495
00:38:59.599 --> 00:38:59.599
no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

496
00:38:59.599 --> 00:38:59.599
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

497
00:38:59.599 --> 00:38:59.599
no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

498
00:38:59.599 --> 00:38:59.599
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

499
00:38:59.599 --> 00:38:59.599
no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

500
00:38:59.599 --> 00:38:59.599
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

501
00:38:59.599 --> 00:38:59.719
no, no, no, no, no, no. No,

502
00:38:59.920 --> 00:38:59.920
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

503
00:38:59.920 --> 00:38:59.920
no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

504
00:38:59.920 --> 00:38:59.920
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

505
00:38:59.920 --> 00:38:59.920
no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

506
00:38:59.920 --> 00:38:59.920
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

507
00:38:59.920 --> 00:38:59.920
no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

508
00:38:59.920 --> 00:38:59.920
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

509
00:38:59.920 --> 00:38:59.920
no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

510
00:38:59.920 --> 00:38:59.920
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

511
00:38:59.920 --> 00:39:01.000
no, no, no. He
raised the need to protect his loved

512
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:06.000
ones. I was waiting for her
at her house in the afternoon, she

513
00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:08.719
gave her the address, but my
mom decided not to go. With so

514
00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:14.000
much work in the house. We
forgot a little bit about my brother Raúl

515
00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:17.360
until one unexpected day, while fixing
my dad his bed and putting his candlestick

516
00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:22.480
on San Benito, they knocked on
the door. I couldn' t believe

517
00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:27.719
my brother was in front of me. It was not easy to recognize him

518
00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:34.039
for a moment I doubted that he
was him, as he was extremely thin

519
00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:38.599
pale with disheartened beard and mustache.
I hugged him for a few seconds as

520
00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:43.639
tears rolled down his cheeks. That
day my mom had gone out to buy

521
00:39:43.719 --> 00:39:46.920
the food. It was his day
off when he arrived from the store,

522
00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:52.519
he was surprised to see my brother. She also began to cry and was

523
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:58.360
that my brother was in a deplorable
condition. My dad asked what was going

524
00:39:58.400 --> 00:40:02.000
on from his room. I could
only hear the voices. Raúl ran to

525
00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:06.000
see my dad. He didn'
t know what had happened to him.

526
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:10.039
They kept talking while I was going
to work. With my brother' s

527
00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:15.440
arrival, the house felt different,
I was no longer afraid, as all

528
00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:20.000
the time I had the feeling that
someone was watching me or that they were

529
00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:24.159
following me, but I could never
see anyone with his presence. I felt

530
00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:30.199
safe. My brother was sick and
couldn' t go to work. He

531
00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:35.440
stayed in the house to take care
of my dad and helped us with the

532
00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:39.159
chores of the house, but when
he felt very bad, he was lying

533
00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:44.360
on his bed all day long,
as strong chills were not taken away from

534
00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:49.559
him, even if he took fever
medicine. In addition, it gave him

535
00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:55.360
a very severe headache that virtually disabled
him. One night, while we were

536
00:40:55.719 --> 00:41:00.239
asleep, we woke up because we
heard a lot of noises in the living

537
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:05.039
room and in the kitchen. There
seemed to be people inside, because voices

538
00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:09.039
were heard. We got up to
see what was going on, but there

539
00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:14.440
was no one inside the house.
When my brother lit the room light,

540
00:41:14.679 --> 00:41:19.400
everything was absolutely silent, only there
was an inscription on the wall with black

541
00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:23.039
ink. I didn' t understand
what he was saying, but my parents

542
00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:29.400
did. We were all scared,
because what we saw was the evidence that,

543
00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:35.880
indeed, someone was inside the house
that night We stayed up very late.

544
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:39.280
My mom told my brother all the
things that had happened to us.

545
00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:45.000
My brother how bigger he was still
remembered the death of my mother' s

546
00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:51.519
brother. He asked if there was
anyone who wanted to harm them, because

547
00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:54.159
it was evident that it was a
dark being who was inside the house.

548
00:41:54.800 --> 00:42:00.679
My mom couldn' t hold back
anymore. She also saw a single dark

549
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:05.599
woman walking at night throughout the house
and believed that she had been the sorcerer

550
00:42:05.679 --> 00:42:09.760
of the village. No more hesitation. The next day, my mom went

551
00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:15.039
to the woman at the esoteric place. I couldn' t know what they

552
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:17.480
were talking about, because that day
I had a lot of orders to deliver.

553
00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:22.360
All I saw was that the lady
was giving my mom an envelope with

554
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:27.480
a white powder. That day,
after we left work, my mom went

555
00:42:27.559 --> 00:42:30.360
to the task of spreading the contents
of the bag all over the house in

556
00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:36.639
every corner. He put it very
carefully. When I asked him what it

557
00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:40.119
was, he told me that it
was blessed and exorcised salt, that the

558
00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:46.599
woman immediately gave him. We heard
a loud, snoring scream. We were

559
00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:51.920
all very scared. We got together
around my dad' s bed. He

560
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:57.079
pulled out an amulet he had among
his belongings and asked us all to join

561
00:42:57.119 --> 00:43:00.800
hands with him. The screams and
galloping didn' t stop until after a

562
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:07.920
few minutes was when my mother,
determinedly took her bag and went to the

563
00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:12.880
address given to her by the lady
of the esoteric place took a long time

564
00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:16.719
to return. She was very startled. When she arrived nervously, she told

565
00:43:16.920 --> 00:43:22.440
me that in the afternoon I would
go with her. My father immediately said

566
00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:27.599
that I would not be involved or
put at risk. However, my mother

567
00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:31.639
told him that it was necessary for
me to go because through me witchcraft had

568
00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:37.119
been done. The palero who did
it. I wanted to take my life,

569
00:43:37.320 --> 00:43:42.039
keep my spirit and my soul.
Because he didn' t make it,

570
00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:45.840
he did a very powerful witchcraft.
That is why the calamities happened one

571
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:51.760
after another and that he would not
rest until his goal was achieved. And

572
00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:55.800
even though we left town, its
dark shadow followed me everywhere. My dad

573
00:43:55.960 --> 00:44:01.440
didn' t say anything anymore.
He just felt. That afternoon we went

574
00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:06.360
with Mrs To her house, which
was just a few blocks away from ours.

575
00:44:06.840 --> 00:44:10.360
His house was very old, with
high windows and the door the same

576
00:44:10.480 --> 00:44:15.480
size as the windows. She showed
up with the name Mary. He took

577
00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:21.159
us to a small room where he
did all his jobs. It was filled

578
00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:27.960
with images of holy watchers and dry
branches hanging everywhere. On one side I

579
00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:32.199
had a case of copper under a
small stove. Inadvertently it made me think

580
00:44:32.320 --> 00:44:37.840
of the traditional witches who did their
witchcraft in cauldrons, round and black,

581
00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:43.519
as if Mary had the ability to
read it. Mind told me that I

582
00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:47.519
was absolutely right within the case I
was going to perform the cleansing of my

583
00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:52.400
spirit. He sat me in the
middle of the room. He lit the

584
00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:55.719
case with water and began to put
different kinds of herbs, dried and fresh.

585
00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:00.280
Then he went out with a black
hen. Before doing anything, she

586
00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:05.679
told us she was going to make
a sacrifice, but first she was going

587
00:45:05.880 --> 00:45:08.760
to make a bargain to call her
dead, to protect her and us.

588
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:15.559
Mary began to pray as she spoke
to her dead. He had some kind

589
00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:22.559
of possession because he started convulsing.
He didn' t fall to the floor,

590
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:28.039
contorted in a grotesque way, and
then left that trance and continued as

591
00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:32.159
if nothing had happened. He kept
praying around me right away, untied the

592
00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:38.079
black hen before killing her, lifted
her up, and then cut her neck,

593
00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:42.480
put the blood in a container.
He gave it to me to drink

594
00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:45.760
from her. I made a gesture
of repulsion telling her that I wasn'

595
00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:51.760
t going to drink that, but
she insisted with a man' s voice

596
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:53.519
as if she were possessed. He
told me to drink it. I no

597
00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:58.960
longer hesitated to drink the red liquid, which was still hot. I felt

598
00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:01.880
the thickness of the blood. Passing
through my throat, I was nauseous.

599
00:46:02.280 --> 00:46:09.159
I wanted to throw up, but
Maria told me to try not to because

600
00:46:09.199 --> 00:46:13.599
the ritual would be of no use. When he told me those words,

601
00:46:13.880 --> 00:46:16.760
his voice was the same. I
held back as long as I could until

602
00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:22.960
the nausea disappeared. The ritual continued
for more than an hour in moments.

603
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:27.360
Mary looked like she was. In
others their voice was distorted and their gaze

604
00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:32.000
was as if they were someone else. When Mary said it was over,

605
00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:39.119
I thought the nightmare was over.
However, he told us that one more

606
00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:45.599
session was needed, as the witchcraft
they made me was very powerful. His

607
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:51.880
dead protector had revealed to him all
the doveyombe they used. It was through

608
00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:57.880
the sacrifice of a human and that
curse was very difficult to break Before we

609
00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:04.039
retired, he commented that it is
if strange situations happened to us, the

610
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:07.719
best thing was to ignore them and
unite in prayer, because the spirit of

611
00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:13.199
the dead, of the palero who
did the work to me would be more

612
00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:15.039
upset, for which there would be
repercussions. When we left Maria' s

613
00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:19.840
house, I felt very bad.
I felt extreme heaviness. I was just

614
00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:23.760
thinking about sleeping and resting. I
didn' t know what my mom would

615
00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:30.320
look like because she saw a cab
stop him and we went up to him

616
00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:32.239
even though the house was on scarce
streets. When we arrived with my dad

617
00:47:32.280 --> 00:47:37.760
and my brothers, they were very
nervous. Raúl had gotten very bad.

618
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:43.079
They had to call the ambulance to
take him to the hospital. One of

619
00:47:43.119 --> 00:47:46.360
the neighbors did the favor of going
with him, but my mom needed to

620
00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:51.880
go with my brother. With how
bad I felt. I didn' t

621
00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:54.199
pay much attention to what happened.
I went straight to my room and fell

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asleep. Most likely I slept more
than 12 hours, because my brother and

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mother were already in the house.
When I asked what had happened to Raúl,

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the doctors said it had only been
a nervous breakdown, but my dad

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was furious because he saw how bad
my brother had even become. My mom

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explained to my dad what the doctors
said. He calmed down little by little.

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I noticed my father desperate for nothing. His powerlessness was so much that

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he started screaming like crazy. My
mother didn' t know what to do.

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It was a few distressing minutes because
my dad couldn' t calm down.

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After a few minutes he was exhausted
and fell asleep. My mother without

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saying anything. He began to pray
next to the image of Saint Benedict that

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my father had. We both sensed
what Mary had told us about. That

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day was terrible, but the night
was worse. A little before two o

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' clock in the morning we were
awakened by the noises at the door knocking

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so loudly that we were afraid.
My brother went to look out, but

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there was no one outside. Again
they began to knock on the door with

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more force. Then all the frets
began to hit the walls. They continued

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as if on the other side of
the wall they were striking with such force

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that dust fell from the walls.
We were afraid they' d be shot

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down. The only thing my mom
thought of was getting out of the house

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because she was afraid for our lives. Outside in the desolate and dark street,

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we were all scared not knowing what
to do or where to go.

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The worst thing happened when a strong
explosion caused the house to start burning.

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The black smoke coming out of the
interior was transformed into an evil entity.

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The same smoke formed the face of
a dark being. Soon the firemen arrived.

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Surely something n one of the neighbors
called them because we had no head

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to do it. It was good
that the house burned down, as the

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firefighters gave us medical assistance and a
place to sleep at the same fire station

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took us only for that night.
The next day, the whole colony had

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heard about what had happened. My
mom and I didn' t go to

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work, but Maria came looking for
us. He asked us if we had

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a place to stay. My crying
mother said no. Mary suggested we go

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to the temple. The priest could
help us. That' s how my

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mom did it. The father gave
us temporary accommodation in what we got another

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place to live. That same day
in the afternoon we went with Mary again.

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She went on with the ritual,
but this time she had a bone

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in her hands. My mother asked
him what he was going to do.

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Maria told him not to be scared. It was a human bone. There

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was no other way to break Palomayombe' s dark work that they did to

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us, but she was not able
to use a living human being. That

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' s why he was carrying the
bone from a human skeleton. It seemed

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more and more sinister to me what
those people were doing, but we were

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already more than involved in that.
So Mary continued with the ritual. He

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did the same thing the day before, unlike using human bone dust with a

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silver knife, he scraped it and
deposited it in the iron case. The

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moment the dust fell inside the container, fire began to come out of the

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case. A horrible scream was heard. I clearly saw when a dark being

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was going straight to me. At
that moment I lost consciousness. When I

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woke up, I was on the
floor. There was only one sheet under

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my body. I was bathed in
blood, but not HERA mine, Maria

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told me it was another black hen' s, but to be quiet.

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It was all over. I did
not feel calm, nor did I feel

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a general discomfort that prevented me from
walking. I told Maria, but she

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assured me it was part of the
aftermath of the ritual. It' ll

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all happen in a few days.
We left Mary' s house with courage

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to the ground. In particular,
I was not sure that everything was over,

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because even what Mary said was a
very powerful ritual that the sorcerer of

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Palomayombe did. We arrived at the
house that the parish father had lent us.

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As soon as the priest saw us, he told us that my brother

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Raul was very sick, He had
fainted twice. It was necessary to take

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him to the hospital. My mom
went with him. I stayed with my

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father and my brothers. During that
day we didn' t hear from my

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mom. I was trying to communicate
with her without getting it. It was

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hard hours because my dad was also
complaining of a very strong pain in the

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spine even at night he spoke on
the phone. My mom didn' t

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say anything. He stayed on the
phone for a few seconds without saying words.

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I was already scared. When I
heard his voice cut, he asked

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me to pass the device to my
dad He started crying screaming no. On

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more than one occasion. My mother' s call was to warn that my

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brother Raúl had just died. My
father left the phone aside. I talked

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to my mother. She was crying
too. Maybe it' s a tough

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decision my mom made. She spoke
to the hospital authorities telling them that she

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had no money for her son'
s burial. At the hospital. They

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offered him the help of incinerating my
brother. If he required a wake-

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up room, he could do it
in the lyms wake- up chapels.

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It didn' t matter that I
wasn' t insured, but my mom

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said no. From the room where
my brother died, they took to cremate

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his body at hours. My mom
came in with my brother' s remains

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in a white urn. My mother
said she believed that the curse of the

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village palero fell on raul. In
my mother' s face there was suffering,

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but also resignation. From that fateful
day on, the people of the

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colony and the market that we knew
helped us with pantry and to get another

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rental housing. Some gave us their
old furniture that they no longer wanted,

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and my dad could start working somewhere
else. My mom and I became great

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friends with Maria, with a certain
frequency she visits us or we go to

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her house. She became our family
and our protector because as soon as she

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noticed something strange immediately, she gave
us some protective amulet or made us in

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the house a ritual of healing the
spirit and the house. On one occasion

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I asked him how he wanted to
help us if he knew how powerful the

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witchcraft of Palo Mayombe was. In
addition, in the Budu sorcery, they

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all did harm with their rituals.
Maria told me it wasn' t like

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that. Within the Buddhist rituals,
not everyone was hurting. There were witches,

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like her, who were looking to
do good with their knowledge and who

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helped us, because she realized from
the first day she saw me and when

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she held my hand to read the
future, that there was a very powerful

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dark being that followed me and she
was not going to stay calm until her

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goal was achieved, so she wanted
to help me, since she had lost

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her daughter and her husband to witchcraft
of Palomayombe. Now I was working to

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help remove the dark jobs, but
especially with me, because he didn'

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t want me to lose my life. Story written and adapted by Adriana Cuevas