Robaban A Los Niños Para Comer Historias De Terror - REDE

0:05 I am originally from the State of Chihuahua. I was born in a village named Naica, it is better known as the world capital of the Bruges. Perhaps the nickname given to him is greatly exaggerated, although there is reason for it, because strange things have happened at night over all the days when there is a full moon you see balls of fire that cross the sky. They have come to the people scientists to deny that there are witches, giving a logical explanation to the fireballs seen in the sky. But those of us who belong to that place know there' s no answer to what' s going on there. My story starts from the moment my mother got pregnant with me.

0:49 I was the first of her daughters. When my mother got married a few months later, she got pregnant. My father went to America to get better income. He left with the promise that he would return for both of us as soon as he was more economically stable. We never knew if my father died trying to cross the border illegally or flatly. He didn' t want to come back for us anymore. At the time when my mother was pregnant, my grandmother Ofelia went to ask the witches a favor because my mother started to stop eating and she was not taking care of herself or getting out of bed. As a good healer who was my grandmother, she tried all sorts of preparations with natural medicine, without anything succeeding. The worst thing happened one night when she got up in the morning with bleeding. My grandmother told me that she thought I' d already lost it, laid it on the bed. When she checked, she realized that she was still following the product in her womb, but every day my mother lost the will and the desire to live. It was when my grandmother took as the decision to go to the witch cave in Naika, because it was a mining village, there are several caves where the miners worked in the search for minerals. In one of those caves, in particular, several peasants had seen lights of fire coming in and out of it. There was even an occasion when one of them saw

2:22 a very tall and thin woman who entered the cave waiting for a long time for him to come out and never did. Dawn and she never saw each other again. For such reasons, it was believed that it was the place where witches rested during the day at night, went out to look for their victims and, if they were full moon nights, performed a macabre dance under the night light. My grandmother made her ready in a bag and set out to go to that place. My grandfather and my uncles tried to stop her. They told him that he was putting his life at risk and that something very bad could happen to him, but my grandmother ignored them. He grabbed his mouth and walked away to the cave. It was twenty minutes from Naika.

3:15 When my grandmother came back from the witch cave, she never said anything. Everyone asked her what she saw or what happened, but she always kept quiet. My grandfather said that most likely he made a pact with them, because from the arrival of Grandma, my mother began to improve. Little by little, she re- established until she stopped having a high- risk pregnancy. On one occasion when my mother' s pregnancy was very advanced, the sun was hiding and the whole town was beginning to go silent. Suddenly at my grandmother' s house there began to be a crying baby. My grandparents were bewildered because there was still no baby in the house. They all remained silent within a few minutes. Again he heard the same thing, not knowing its origin. They started searching the rooms from which that crying came, until on the third occasion that the baby kept crying they realized that it was inside my mother' s womb that the crying baby was me. When my grandmother realized that it was the crying of a born baby, she covered her mouth with the palm of her hand from the surprise that invaded her, since, according to the belief of the Naica people, at the time that something like this happens, it was the premonition that that baby would be born with a

4:46 gift might be that it was the gift of the divination of the premonitions of knowing things from beyond. It was not possible to know until he was born and over time he could develop them from s s s u s. So they realized where the crying came from didn' t happen again until the day I was born, but my grandmother wasn' t calm because when she realized she would be born with a gift The witches of Naica would be watching over me at any moment they were going to want to take me with them. My grandmother as a midwife, she was the first to see me at birth. He welcomed me into his arms as I was born at almost midnight.

5:28 It was difficult for a priest at that time to baptize me. That first night it was heard throughout the village that dogs and birds were very disturbed. Dogs began to shun painfully the chickens fluttered in the corrals as when a fox wandered around to eat them in the house. My grandmother took every precaution to prevent me from being taken, but they never made the attempt to enter the house. As soon as dawn came, I was brought before the priest to be baptized and thus to prevent one of the witches from entering the house because of my blood. The parish priest told them that baptism was very hasty.

6:12 There was no need for them to anticipate so much. The ideal was to look for the godparents who would watch over me with time and care, but my grandmother said no. At that very moment the father put on my forehead the oil and the holy water, being my godfathers, my own grandparents, without white dress or party. The day after my birth, I was baptized. My grandmother' s purpose was to protect me. She believed that, being baptized, the witches would not come near me, but that was far from reality. When I was six years old, time had passed and no witch had come near me. It was when my grandmother and mother were relaxing, they didn' t take care of me as much as when I was younger. Anyway, they put fresh rosemary branches on the head of my bed every day, as well as a bucket of water under my bed, a large crucifix and an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe on a wall I have the very blurry memory of that night, while I was sleeping, a woman approached in the early morning to sing a song. I was awakened by the whisper of the melody in my ear. I thought it was my mom, but when I opened my eyes I saw a woman whose face was very close to mine smiling at me in a strange way, with black ash. He left a mark on my stomach and left. The next day I told my

7:43 mom what had happened to me during the night. First I thought it might be a dream, but when I showed my mom' s belly, she screamed at the mark on my stomach. He immediately spoke to my grandmother. She went for a white cloth that she had put holy water on her and with her removed the mark. He told my mother words I couldn' t understand. The two of them began to cry in grief. That same day they took me to the father of the church. They asked him to bless me and give me a protective amulet, but the father was newly arrived in the village and still did not realize that witches really existed in that town, so he did not believe them at all. My grandmother and mother were given a silver crucifix that was immediately put at my neck. The Christ was blessed.

8:39 Both my mother and grandmother left the church quietly for a year. I didn' t dream about that woman again until I was seven. On this occasion I was awakened by the melody of a song. The sound was very low. I could barely hear it. In the background of the song I could tell the voice of a woman. That was the first time I got scared crying. I yelled at my mom that there was someone inside the room. She hugged me crying right away my grandmother came in, prayed and lit a dry weed with her started filling the room with smoke, which had a very wood- like smell. Burning to date, it is possible for me to identify that aroma of wood as my grandmother was a healer and did more rituals of protection and prayer. It is, moreover, to say that there were garlic around my bed. My grandfather had taken care of tying them up carefully. Every month he was in charge of changing the garlic. My grandmother said it was to change the energy of the room. Likewise, the bucket with water under my bed. He was always there every day at dawn.

9:54 My mother was the one who threw that water into the street. While I was doing so, I would see err muttering a few words. Then again I filled it with clean water from the claw. She said it was to clean the room, because everything bad was left in the water. It had to be eliminated every day. The rituals at my grandparents' house were every day. After the scare of that night I never saw the woman singing to me again. It was a year before she showed up again. He always did. On my birthday, I had a lullaby very present that I heard. I didn' t remember where. Surely it was while I was very small, because sometimes, without even thinking about it, I would sing it right away. My mom asked me where I had heard that song, because she had never sung it to me, she didn' t even know it.

10:50 I shrugged, because I didn' t even know it just suddenly came to my mind. Giant crystals changed their tone. According to my grandmother' s version, that place was special, it was because it was a natural energy center and the witches went there to enhance their powers in such a way that they were always powerful. As my mom told Grandma about the novels of the cave, a big fuss was heard outside one of the neighbors came screaming in despair. I was asking for help. His daughter had disappeared in the lagoon. My grandmother and my mom came out to help her. Ma' am. I stayed inside the house through the window, watched that woman cry.

11:39 In a few minutes, many of the neighbors offered to help her. They left for the lagoon. I could tell how they got lost in the distance. Everyone in town was worried. It was rare, but there were times when children disappeared without an apparent cause. I was looking out the window when I heard again that someone was talking to me in the ear, while I turned around to know who was talking to me. That way I couldn ' t see anyone. Right then my mom came in from the street. I asked her if she had spoken to me because there was someone else inside the room. I heard his voice, but I couldn' t see anyone.

12:24 My grandmother came in after my mother. When I told her what happened, my grandmother told my mom that we needed to leave town. The witch was not going to rest until she had me on her side. He was going to take me to be part of his group of witches. True or not, that night was the night of the witches because they listened to the distant squawking screams and the gnashing of bones. The dogs immediately became upset and began to be part of their noise. They awoke pitifully as if they knew what was going on and laughed and grumbled with sadness on the street. It began to fill with owls, their flaps were heard everywhere. My grandmother asked my mom to take me to her room. He asked her to stay with me while she did rituals to get them away from her house. I don ' t know how strong the rituals my grandmother performed were, but while she was in the living room, protecting the door and the windows on the roof, the footsteps were heard. It was as if it was a plain to run and rise or to get there and prostrate in that place, in the distance I came to distinguish the crying of a baby. Both my mother and I were afraid, very afraid that at any moment they would come in and take me. I trembled at the fear that gave me to hear them because they screamed and made horrible noises almost at dawn. The town went silent in

13:56 the house. No one had slept and surely in the other houses either because it was a macabre sound that they made. When the sun began to show that it appeared, they left and everything remained in absolute silence. In the morning, my grandmother went to church to pray. It was the place where the villagers took refuge in days like that every twenty- four of June. It was the same on St John' s Day. The witches made their aquelars, took a girl and a baby from nearby villages. This time it was another woman' s turn. She was still heartbroken looking for her child.

14:39 In the distance we managed to distinguish the inhabitants who had joined in their search. As I looked out the window, I could see them tired and discouraged, because all the effort had been in vain. One of them said he had reached the witch who took the girl, but as soon as he saw him, he screamed so loudly that he left him meaningless and lying on the ground. When she woke up, the witch and the girl were gone. They had disappeared at the entrance of the cave. Despaired, he ran to the village. But before he left like a threat, as he ran for the village, some big bird legs pushed him. That' s when he hit himself. He came running without turning back, because he was very afraid that one of the witches would come after him. He ran as hard as he could until he got to town. The atmosphere of the village was scary. An air was breathed to death, to desolation, to panic.

15:41 The witches had achieved their goal to frighten the people with their actions. They no longer knew when another boy or girl was going to disappear and then find him without life or as in the case of the girls, being part of their group of witches. As the days passed, we calmed down. My grandmother. She asked my mom if she could go away from town so the witches wouldn' t take me with her, but my mother wouldn' t. He told her that they were able to meet me anywhere and it was better if I was with my grandmother. My mother married a mine worker and went to live with him in the nearby village. She wouldn' t take me with her out of fear. My days continued with my grandmother. Every time he approached my birthday. I was afraid that one of them would appear to me as much as my grandmother made efforts to put different kinds of protections on them not even stop them. The next birthday, my grandmother slept with me in the bed my mother left. She went to bed early. I wasn' t sleepy yet. I stayed watching TV in the living room.

16:53 At that time he was about to turn ten, long before it was two o' clock at night. I started hearing noises on the roof my grandmother. I had left my grandfather to keep an eye on me. As soon as he heard the laughter and the steps on the roof, he grabbed his rifle and went to the courtyard to shoot them. He fired the first bullet, which caused my grandmother to wake up right away, but that didn' t stay there. One of the witches threw herself at my grandfather and attacked him in the stomach. He tore him with one of his claws. My grandfather immediately fell to the floor. Another of them planned to continue attacking, but my grandmother started praying at the same time as throwing holy water at her.

17:38 She flew away immediately, but not so far, because it wasn' t yet midnight. My grandmother went out to get the town doctor because of the fear I had. He didn' t realize he left me alone next to my grandfather. When they gave twelve o' clock at night, one of them appeared in the courtyard. He was looking for me from inside my room, but when he didn' t find me, he went into the living room. There I was with my grandfather. I didn' t know how he got into the house, because the door to the courtyard and the entrance were still closed. She began to roam around me as I was caressing my long hair, began to sing the melody already so well known. Again he touched my hair, telling me that in a short time I would be with them. It was only a year away. He left me a gift on the table and left in a few minutes. My grandmother arrived with the doctor who immediately attended my grandfather. He said it was necessary to take him to the hospital, but my grandmother didn' t want to leave me alone.

18:44 I told him I could do it. She had already been there and left me that gift. My grandmother didn' t know what to do She left with the doctor leaving me alone in the house. A little before midnight. I started listening to the steps on the roof were the ones that came with me. I was afraid they' d come in for me and take me. I went and got under the bed thinking naively that they wouldn' t find me there. Just when it was midnight I began to see the shadows of several women inside the house. They were tall and slender with long hair and black dresses. As they played with me, because they most certainly knew where I was, they began to speak in another language. I didn ' t understand them all of a sudden I saw the horrible face of one of them. He popped it under the bed. At the same time as I smiled in a burlesque way, I heard laughs and left the house.

19:45 The next day my grandparents arrived. My mother was coming with them. As soon as he saw me, he ran to hug me. He asked me if they didn' t hurt me. I said no, but I was warned that the next year was the time according to what was agreed with my grandmother Naika. It' s not the only place we can live. We grab some essentials and leave. From that time when I saw one of them, I could see the truth of their existence. The witches of Naika live in the mining caves. We' ve been in different places waiting for them to lose track of us. After I saw a witch, I realized that I have the ability to anticipate the facts. I saw during a dream the way my grandmother died. It was a horrible death at the hands of witches.

20:40 I don' t know if it' s really gonna happen. I ' m afraid of the next birthday because I know they' re gonna show up anywhere I can find myself. I live in fear that any woman I see may be one of them. Story written and adapted by Adriana Cuevas. One one.