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I am originally from the State of
Chihuahua. I was born in a village

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named Naica, it is better known
as the world capital of the Bruges.

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Perhaps the nickname given to him is
greatly exaggerated, although there is reason for

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it, because strange things have happened
at night over all the days when there

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is a full moon you see balls
of fire that cross the sky. They

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have come to the people scientists to
deny that there are witches, giving a

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logical explanation to the fireballs seen in
the sky. But those of us who

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belong to that place know there'
s no answer to what' s going

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on there. My story starts from
the moment my mother got pregnant with me.

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I was the first of her daughters. When my mother got married a

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few months later, she got pregnant. My father went to America to get

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better income. He left with the
promise that he would return for both of

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us as soon as he was more
economically stable. We never knew if my

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father died trying to cross the border
illegally or flatly. He didn' t

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want to come back for us anymore. At the time when my mother was

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pregnant, my grandmother Ofelia went to
ask the witches a favor because my mother

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started to stop eating and she was
not taking care of herself or getting out

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of bed. As a good healer
who was my grandmother, she tried all

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sorts of preparations with natural medicine,
without anything succeeding. The worst thing happened

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one night when she got up in
the morning with bleeding. My grandmother told

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me that she thought I' d
already lost it, laid it on the

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bed. When she checked, she
realized that she was still following the product

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in her womb, but every day
my mother lost the will and the desire

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to live. It was when my
grandmother took as the decision to go to

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the witch cave in Naika, because
it was a mining village, there are

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several caves where the miners worked in
the search for minerals. In one of

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those caves, in particular, several
peasants had seen lights of fire coming in

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and out of it. There was
even an occasion when one of them saw

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a very tall and thin woman who
entered the cave waiting for a long time

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for him to come out and never
did. Dawn and she never saw each

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other again. For such reasons,
it was believed that it was the place

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where witches rested during the day at
night, went out to look for their

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victims and, if they were full
moon nights, performed a macabre dance under

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the night light. My grandmother made
her ready in a bag and set out

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to go to that place. My
grandfather and my uncles tried to stop her.

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They told him that he was putting
his life at risk and that something

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very bad could happen to him,
but my grandmother ignored them. He grabbed

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his mouth and walked away to the
cave. It was twenty minutes from Naika.

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When my grandmother came back from the
witch cave, she never said anything.

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Everyone asked her what she saw or
what happened, but she always kept

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quiet. My grandfather said that most
likely he made a pact with them,

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because from the arrival of Grandma,
my mother began to improve. Little by

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little, she re- established until
she stopped having a high- risk pregnancy.

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On one occasion when my mother'
s pregnancy was very advanced, the

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sun was hiding and the whole town
was beginning to go silent. Suddenly at

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my grandmother' s house there began
to be a crying baby. My grandparents

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were bewildered because there was still no
baby in the house. They all remained

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silent within a few minutes. Again
he heard the same thing, not knowing

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its origin. They started searching the
rooms from which that crying came, until

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on the third occasion that the baby
kept crying they realized that it was inside

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my mother' s womb that the
crying baby was me. When my grandmother

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realized that it was the crying of
a born baby, she covered her mouth

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with the palm of her hand from
the surprise that invaded her, since,

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according to the belief of the Naica
people, at the time that something like

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this happens, it was the premonition
that that baby would be born with a

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gift might be that it was the
gift of the divination of the premonitions of

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knowing things from beyond. It was
not possible to know until he was born

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and over time he could develop them
from s s s u s. So

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they realized where the crying came from
didn' t happen again until the day

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I was born, but my grandmother
wasn' t calm because when she realized

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she would be born with a gift
The witches of Naica would be watching over

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me at any moment they were going
to want to take me with them.

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My grandmother as a midwife, she
was the first to see me at birth.

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He welcomed me into his arms as
I was born at almost midnight.

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It was difficult for a priest at
that time to baptize me. That first

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night it was heard throughout the village
that dogs and birds were very disturbed.

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Dogs began to shun painfully the chickens
fluttered in the corrals as when a fox

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wandered around to eat them in the
house. My grandmother took every precaution to

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prevent me from being taken, but
they never made the attempt to enter the

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house. As soon as dawn came, I was brought before the priest to

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be baptized and thus to prevent one
of the witches from entering the house because

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of my blood. The parish priest
told them that baptism was very hasty.

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There was no need for them to
anticipate so much. The ideal was to

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look for the godparents who would watch
over me with time and care, but

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my grandmother said no. At that
very moment the father put on my forehead

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the oil and the holy water,
being my godfathers, my own grandparents,

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without white dress or party. The
day after my birth, I was baptized.

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My grandmother' s purpose was to
protect me. She believed that,

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being baptized, the witches would not
come near me, but that was far

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from reality. When I was six
years old, time had passed and no

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witch had come near me. It
was when my grandmother and mother were relaxing,

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they didn' t take care of
me as much as when I was

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younger. Anyway, they put fresh
rosemary branches on the head of my bed

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every day, as well as a
bucket of water under my bed, a

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large crucifix and an image of the
Virgin of Guadalupe on a wall I have

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the very blurry memory of that night, while I was sleeping, a woman

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approached in the early morning to sing
a song. I was awakened by the

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whisper of the melody in my ear. I thought it was my mom,

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but when I opened my eyes I
saw a woman whose face was very close

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to mine smiling at me in a
strange way, with black ash. He

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left a mark on my stomach and
left. The next day I told my

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mom what had happened to me during
the night. First I thought it might

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be a dream, but when I
showed my mom' s belly, she

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screamed at the mark on my stomach. He immediately spoke to my grandmother.

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She went for a white cloth that
she had put holy water on her and

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with her removed the mark. He
told my mother words I couldn' t

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understand. The two of them began
to cry in grief. That same day

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they took me to the father of
the church. They asked him to bless

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me and give me a protective amulet, but the father was newly arrived in

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the village and still did not realize
that witches really existed in that town,

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so he did not believe them at
all. My grandmother and mother were given

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a silver crucifix that was immediately put
at my neck. The Christ was blessed.

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Both my mother and grandmother left the
church quietly for a year. I

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didn' t dream about that woman
again until I was seven. On this

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occasion I was awakened by the melody
of a song. The sound was very

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low. I could barely hear it. In the background of the song I

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could tell the voice of a woman. That was the first time I got

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scared crying. I yelled at my
mom that there was someone inside the room.

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She hugged me crying right away my
grandmother came in, prayed and lit

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a dry weed with her started filling
the room with smoke, which had a

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very wood- like smell. Burning
to date, it is possible for me

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to identify that aroma of wood as
my grandmother was a healer and did more

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rituals of protection and prayer. It
is, moreover, to say that there

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were garlic around my bed. My
grandfather had taken care of tying them up

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carefully. Every month he was in
charge of changing the garlic. My grandmother

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said it was to change the energy
of the room. Likewise, the bucket

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with water under my bed. He
was always there every day at dawn.

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My mother was the one who threw
that water into the street. While I

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was doing so, I would see
err muttering a few words. Then again

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I filled it with clean water from
the claw. She said it was to

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clean the room, because everything bad
was left in the water. It had

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to be eliminated every day. The
rituals at my grandparents' house were every

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day. After the scare of that
night I never saw the woman singing to

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me again. It was a year
before she showed up again. He always

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did. On my birthday, I
had a lullaby very present that I heard.

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I didn' t remember where.
Surely it was while I was very

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small, because sometimes, without even
thinking about it, I would sing it

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right away. My mom asked me
where I had heard that song, because

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she had never sung it to me, she didn' t even know it.

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I shrugged, because I didn'
t even know it just suddenly came

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to my mind. Giant crystals changed
their tone. According to my grandmother'

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s version, that place was special, it was because it was a natural

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energy center and the witches went there
to enhance their powers in such a way

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that they were always powerful. As
my mom told Grandma about the novels of

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the cave, a big fuss was
heard outside one of the neighbors came screaming

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in despair. I was asking for
help. His daughter had disappeared in the

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lagoon. My grandmother and my mom
came out to help her. Ma'

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am. I stayed inside the house
through the window, watched that woman cry.

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In a few minutes, many of
the neighbors offered to help her.

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They left for the lagoon. I
could tell how they got lost in the

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distance. Everyone in town was worried. It was rare, but there were

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times when children disappeared without an apparent
cause. I was looking out the window

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when I heard again that someone was
talking to me in the ear, while

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I turned around to know who was
talking to me. That way I couldn

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' t see anyone. Right then
my mom came in from the street.

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I asked her if she had spoken
to me because there was someone else inside

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the room. I heard his voice, but I couldn' t see anyone.

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My grandmother came in after my mother. When I told her what happened,

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my grandmother told my mom that we
needed to leave town. The witch

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was not going to rest until she
had me on her side. He was

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going to take me to be part
of his group of witches. True or

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not, that night was the night
of the witches because they listened to the

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distant squawking screams and the gnashing of
bones. The dogs immediately became upset and

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began to be part of their noise. They awoke pitifully as if they knew

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what was going on and laughed and
grumbled with sadness on the street. It

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began to fill with owls, their
flaps were heard everywhere. My grandmother asked

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my mom to take me to her
room. He asked her to stay with

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me while she did rituals to get
them away from her house. I don

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' t know how strong the rituals
my grandmother performed were, but while she

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was in the living room, protecting
the door and the windows on the roof,

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the footsteps were heard. It was
as if it was a plain to

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run and rise or to get there
and prostrate in that place, in the

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distance I came to distinguish the crying
of a baby. Both my mother and

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I were afraid, very afraid that
at any moment they would come in and

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take me. I trembled at the
fear that gave me to hear them because

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they screamed and made horrible noises almost
at dawn. The town went silent in

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the house. No one had slept
and surely in the other houses either because

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it was a macabre sound that they
made. When the sun began to show

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that it appeared, they left and
everything remained in absolute silence. In the

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morning, my grandmother went to church
to pray. It was the place where

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the villagers took refuge in days like
that every twenty- four of June.

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It was the same on St John' s Day. The witches made their

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aquelars, took a girl and a
baby from nearby villages. This time it

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was another woman' s turn.
She was still heartbroken looking for her child.

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In the distance we managed to distinguish
the inhabitants who had joined in their

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search. As I looked out the
window, I could see them tired and

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discouraged, because all the effort had
been in vain. One of them said

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he had reached the witch who took
the girl, but as soon as he

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saw him, he screamed so loudly
that he left him meaningless and lying on

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the ground. When she woke up, the witch and the girl were gone.

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They had disappeared at the entrance of
the cave. Despaired, he ran

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to the village. But before he
left like a threat, as he ran

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for the village, some big bird
legs pushed him. That' s when

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he hit himself. He came running
without turning back, because he was very

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afraid that one of the witches would
come after him. He ran as hard

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as he could until he got to
town. The atmosphere of the village was

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scary. An air was breathed to
death, to desolation, to panic.

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The witches had achieved their goal to
frighten the people with their actions. They

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no longer knew when another boy or
girl was going to disappear and then find

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him without life or as in the
case of the girls, being part of

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their group of witches. As the
days passed, we calmed down. My

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grandmother. She asked my mom if
she could go away from town so the

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witches wouldn' t take me with
her, but my mother wouldn' t.

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He told her that they were able
to meet me anywhere and it was

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better if I was with my grandmother. My mother married a mine worker and

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went to live with him in the
nearby village. She wouldn' t take

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me with her out of fear.
My days continued with my grandmother. Every

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time he approached my birthday. I
was afraid that one of them would appear

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to me as much as my grandmother
made efforts to put different kinds of protections

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on them not even stop them.
The next birthday, my grandmother slept with

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me in the bed my mother left. She went to bed early. I

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wasn' t sleepy yet. I
stayed watching TV in the living room.

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At that time he was about to
turn ten, long before it was two

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o' clock at night. I
started hearing noises on the roof my grandmother.

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I had left my grandfather to keep
an eye on me. As soon

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as he heard the laughter and the
steps on the roof, he grabbed his

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rifle and went to the courtyard to
shoot them. He fired the first bullet,

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which caused my grandmother to wake up
right away, but that didn'

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t stay there. One of the
witches threw herself at my grandfather and attacked

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him in the stomach. He tore
him with one of his claws. My

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grandfather immediately fell to the floor.
Another of them planned to continue attacking,

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but my grandmother started praying at the
same time as throwing holy water at her.

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She flew away immediately, but not
so far, because it wasn'

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t yet midnight. My grandmother went
out to get the town doctor because of

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the fear I had. He didn' t realize he left me alone next

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to my grandfather. When they gave
twelve o' clock at night, one

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of them appeared in the courtyard.
He was looking for me from inside my

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room, but when he didn'
t find me, he went into the

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living room. There I was with
my grandfather. I didn' t know

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how he got into the house,
because the door to the courtyard and the

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entrance were still closed. She began
to roam around me as I was caressing

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my long hair, began to sing
the melody already so well known. Again

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he touched my hair, telling me
that in a short time I would be

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with them. It was only a
year away. He left me a gift

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on the table and left in a
few minutes. My grandmother arrived with the

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doctor who immediately attended my grandfather.
He said it was necessary to take him

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to the hospital, but my grandmother
didn' t want to leave me alone.

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I told him I could do it. She had already been there and

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left me that gift. My grandmother
didn' t know what to do She

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left with the doctor leaving me alone
in the house. A little before midnight.

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I started listening to the steps on
the roof were the ones that came

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with me. I was afraid they' d come in for me and take

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me. I went and got under
the bed thinking naively that they wouldn'

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t find me there. Just when
it was midnight I began to see the

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shadows of several women inside the house. They were tall and slender with long

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hair and black dresses. As they
played with me, because they most certainly

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knew where I was, they began
to speak in another language. I didn

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' t understand them all of a
sudden I saw the horrible face of one

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of them. He popped it under
the bed. At the same time as

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I smiled in a burlesque way,
I heard laughs and left the house.

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The next day my grandparents arrived.
My mother was coming with them. As

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soon as he saw me, he
ran to hug me. He asked me

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if they didn' t hurt me. I said no, but I was

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warned that the next year was the
time according to what was agreed with my

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grandmother Naika. It' s not
the only place we can live. We

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grab some essentials and leave. From
that time when I saw one of them,

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I could see the truth of their
existence. The witches of Naika live

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in the mining caves. We'
ve been in different places waiting for them

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to lose track of us. After
I saw a witch, I realized that

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I have the ability to anticipate the
facts. I saw during a dream the

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way my grandmother died. It was
a horrible death at the hands of witches.

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I don' t know if it' s really gonna happen. I

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' m afraid of the next birthday
because I know they' re gonna show

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up anywhere I can find myself.
I live in fear that any woman I

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see may be one of them.
Story written and adapted by Adriana Cuevas.

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One one.