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Una Maldición En Forma De Riqueza - Historias De Terror - Voces De La Noche · Niebla en el bosque con Evelith von

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In small villages, all sorts of supernatural stories are often told. The appearance
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of spirits is common among locals. With these stories fear is instilled among the
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younger ones and they are sought to educate them not to act recklessly. And
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it' s funny. But among all this collective imagination, people actively participate,
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either by telling the stories as if they had lived them or as if
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someone they know and trust has told them to them. And you also participate
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passively as the mere spectator or listen to those stories filled with supernatural beings.
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I grew up listening to all kinds of stories, from the crybaby that appears
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in rainy and purple times, the proximity of the water canals, the goblins
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that play and make mischief in the water births and all that kind of boy.
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Of course all that makes me scared. The days when the rain fell
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heavily on my family' s crops, I could only think that the crybaby
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could appear out there, or worse, I could hear her at night,
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so I would fall asleep as soon as I could. My family has always
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been numerous. I have about seven brothers and three sisters. With all of
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them I grew up in this village far from the big cities. It was
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a nice town. The municipal palace was in the center. There I used
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to meet with my brothers and friends to play football, hide- and-
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seek and a bunch of other games that we made up in the march.
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Behind the Presidency there was a small hill that as a child I remember its
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rise quite large and tired of touring, but the shop was one of the
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most surging in the whole area. Even the neighbors of the village of Alado
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came to pour grains, sugar and other products. I liked to go because
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there in ns it contracted sweets of all kinds, paddles, gums, potatoes,
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chocolates and even some accessories such as bracelets, donuts and hair leagues.
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The gentleman who attended that barrio was called Don Martín, he knew practically all
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the people in the village and my family It was not the exception, since
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my father was a well- known person and not only here in the city
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that was closest to us was also quite popular. His fame was not necessarily
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due to his great kindness. I think he was once a fugitive from justice
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for taking the life of a man who had stepped on his shiny shoes on
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the bus they were traveling on. When the bus made the stop, my
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dad took him off his shirt, threw him on the sidewalk and hurt him.
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After having done that, he ran away I didn' t know where
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he went, but they caught him and he was held for a while,
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but my dad was always very clever and pretty smart socially. He became friends
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with the prison authorities and soon managed to be transferred to other cells. He
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even worked as secretary of some prison command while serving his sentence. He was
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also auxiliary president of the municipality where we lived and he did take advantage of
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his stay in the dependency. Definitely, my dad was quite a character,
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though he was also quite loving to the family. I loved my mother and
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her grandchildren. He liked it when they came to visit him and always tried
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to give them a little present. He liked that the family was big,
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as the couples and children of my brothers and sisters lived in the same house
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for at least a short time. As time passed, many of my brothers
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chose to go to America and redo their lives there. My brothers started leaving
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after Mom passed away. I guess, even though my father tried hard to
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keep the family together. It was my mother who performed that function. She
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was beautiful and elegant. He always liked to look and dress well, or
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at least stand out above others. I remember that if I saw her wearing
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a garment similar to or similar to that she wore, I would not re
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- dress her or burn her, as she always liked to distinguish herself from
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the rest of the women in the village. Although it seemed very superficial my
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mother lady, the truth is that she was very kind to her character.
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A little diva, yes, but he always had a smile for us or
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for the people nearby. The story of how they met and became husbands,
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my parents are the least curious and tells me a lot about the character of
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both. If I remember correctly, they told me that my dad was a
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boyfriend to another girl in town and my mother did the impossible because she ended
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up marrying her. Of course, it wasn' t very difficult, as
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she was very pretty when young, thin with white skin almost like porcelain and
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very fine features, a sharp but very sharp nose, fine chin and long
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limbs, just the opposite of what my dad was like, a person full
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of brown skin and very rounded features. Even though my dad wasn' t
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exactly handsome because of his personality, he was able to conquer the woman he
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proposed, and his adventures are proof of that. It seems to me that
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I have several stepbrothers in many towns, cities and states of the country.
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I' m not sure how many, but my father took care of leaving
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his seed everywhere where this facet of my father was going. It wasn'
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t my mother' s pleasure, of course, she didn' t immediately
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find out, but it was a long time later. I' m not
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sure what happened when he found out. I guess if they stayed together,
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it was because they had a lot of kids to worry about. However,
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he ended up wilting my mother little by little until he passed away, but
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at least I was fortunate enough to meet my two children. Unfortunately, he
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wasn' t there to help me by the time something claimed the life of
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the only son, male I could have. When I was nineteen years old,
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I fell in love with a young woman who was originally from the neighboring
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village with which I bordered, which belongs to another State and the only visible
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division was an old bridge built many years ago, which connected to both localities
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and it was necessary to communicate them, since it was the only entrance and
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exit for both populations. The road was made of grey stone, quite sharp,
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but very resistant. She was a young woman who had been raised only
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by her grandparents. Her mother since she was born left her in the care
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of her two grandparents and went to work in the city to provide for her
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and her parents, as her brothers had also gone to work outside. Nor
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was it that they cared much about them, so they grew up without the
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tutelage and guidance of their mother, their grandparents already great and who had even
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lived in their own flesh the Mexican Revolution. His grandmother survived the raids and
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abductions that the army made when it passed through this town, as the military
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swept away everything, especially with the young women they abused. Her grandmother hid
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in the caves in the hills and later married a peasant who managed to buy
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enough hectares of land she cultivated until she died. It was also made from
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mountains where it extracted firewood and made coal to survive, and the climatic conditions
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in this area are a little harsh. As we meet in the mountains,
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the altitude causes most of the year to be cold. Mist is usually every
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day and in winter seasons. It' s hard to see beyond the nose.
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It also rains constantly and makes the grey stone roads difficult to travel.
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Life in this region is often complicated, but all residents are adapted and accustomed
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to living under these conditions. Children even tend to play football in chorts or
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run everywhere with just a few clothes on top, so it is common to
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see people and infants with their face peeled, lips broken and skin reddened by
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low temperatures. Despite that, both peoples always look green, crops even grow,
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and agriculture and livestock are the main activities of people. Although over the
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years it became more difficult to survive only from it and the cities always have
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an appeal that make us want to leave and leave this country life. I
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pretended to that woman and at first she didn' t listen to me.
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He was worried his grandparents wouldn' t approve of something like that and your
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wine was trouble. It' s just that her grandmother was especially very negative
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to the idea that her granddaughter was with someone in my father' s name
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for everything she' s done in her life and earned that infamy. Although
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children should not pay for their parents’ sins, I later understood why their
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distrust. The point is that we became boyfriends, we saw each other sneaking
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around when they sent her shopping at Don Martín' s bartender. He was
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running away for a little while and we hid from the neighbors who had nothing
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better to do than comment on everything they had seen. Our relationship was a
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little clandestine, but that gave me a certain emotion. It made every encounter
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more interesting and gave it a certain adrenaline. After a few months of courtship
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and fleeting encounters over his family' s disapproval of being with someone like me,
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we learned that we would be parents. At that point, I was
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about twenty- two years old and she had just turned nineteen. We were
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young, but adult enough to be parents and acquire all the responsibilities that raising
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a child implies. To my surprise, my first son was a child,
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who was born very healthy, but I disagreed because I wanted a boy.
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My mother, when she heard my whining, went into anger. He hit
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me and told me that if I wanted a son so badly, then I
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would mold him with my own hands. Of course I gave in to my
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wife' s complaints and reproaches. We live at my parents' house.
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My wife helped my mother with household chores, she cared for me and the
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rest of my family as she usually gets used to here. I got a
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job as a bus driver from one of the largest transport companies in the country,
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but I had to travel every day to where the terminal was. So
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I spent my free time with my family. Sometimes we went to the movies
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to buy her everything the girl needed. Not much happened in that period,
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but things started to get weird when we found out that we would be parents
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again so soon. My wife informed me that I was pregnant. I was
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very happy. Perhaps this time if we had a man, although not all
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was windy in the stern during those times, my mother began to get sick
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and part of my salary was allocated to cover the costs of the doctor and
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the medicine he required. I reduced some things to my family. And although
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my wife never objected and even helped my mother in what she could, taking
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care of my father, my younger brothers and my daughter, she told me
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that something was not going very well with the pregnancy. He told me that
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the nights I was working he listens to footsteps on the roof of natural tile
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that had most of my parents' house. The nightmares were constant and repeated
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even where a mysterious man snatched our son from his hands and I simply did
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not appear to defend them. At first I didn' t care about my
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wife' s concerns. I insisted that they were just dreams and stop thinking
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about nonsense. My mother listened to some of our discussions on this issue and
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got upset with my attitude. He asked me what was wrong with me,
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whether I was a fool or why I treated my wife like that. I
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tried to evade responsibility for my words, claiming they were just dreams and to
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let me rest, as I had been working all night and was tired.
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My mother died before my son was born. His illness had advanced. My
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father had been absent, as usual. He was probably with some of his
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lovers, but to know which one or where. I was also not present
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while she was going, as the central had proposed a promotion and precisely that
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day I would take the skills test to know if I was fit for long
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- term travel. Of course, I did not pass the test, but
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I was allowed to continue working locally at the company and later decided to re
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- apply the test. I did, as it was really for very few
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points that I did not credit the test When I arrived, much of my
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family had already gathered in the house, everyone was asking and others were cursing
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my father. My pregnant wife, she managed everything she needed for the rosaries
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they used to do. My brothers contributed the money for the expenses and we
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waited for my father to decide to appear before the burial of my mother'
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s body, which, by the way, occurred and although he wept disheartenedly
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as a child as he stood on his knees in front of the coffin,
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the truth is that I could only feel a deep contempt for him. But
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despite that he was my father and in honor of the memory of my late
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mother, I kept the temper. Some relatives stayed in the house for a
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few days, as we hadn’ t seen each other for a long time.
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We caught up with my wife and daughter as they congratulated us for waiting
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for our second son. During those days, my wife told me that she
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was still feeling quite uncomfortable, something worried her as she lay her hand on
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her belly, already quite bulging, as it was about a month before she
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gave birth to the midwife. Mrs Esperanza used to come visit us to check
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on the pregnancy. Even though she had medical insurance, she felt more comfortable
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with the midwife, who was an old woman and whenever she could remind me
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of the way she helped in my birth. During those days we discussed what
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we would do now that my father had become a widower. Some of my
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brothers commented that I might not live long and that instead we would have to
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agree on how to share the inheritance. Most of them had acquired their own
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heritage abroad, so they did not intend to return to the village, as
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their families would hardly get used to a harder life than they had to date.
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That we checked during the days they visited at my parents' house,
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there was only one of my sisters who had been married to a man from
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the village, but after my parents found out about the abuses and ill-
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treatment I suffered, they decided to get her out of there. Since then,
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he' s been taking care of my father. I was questioned about
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not having acquired a house or land, but to tell the truth. I
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was hoping that my grandfathers or my wife' s mother wouldn' t give
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up a note or sell us a few meters to build a house. To
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date, there was no sign of anything, so I supported the idea that
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my sister was the one who took our parents' house, when all my
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relatives had already left the village and we were just there. My wife,
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daughter and I discussed what we would do, as I had told her that
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it would be better to find another place to stay, as domestic work and
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take care of my father' s womanizer. I didn' t think it
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was the best thing for my family. She told me that we would go
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and talk to her grandparents to buy land next to their house and in that
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way she could also take care of them when they got sick. While I
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was sleeping, I dreamt that a hooded man would talk to me and assure
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me that the baby inside my wife' s womb would be a boy I
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didn' t care about. That' s why he assured me that I
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had a certain interest in making a deal with me. But I couldn'
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t figure out what all that dream ended up in, because my wife woke
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me up around 4 a m to take a bath, as I had to
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go to work. I' ve been hanging around him all day, and
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it' s just that I was also worried about having the money to buy
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his grandparents a piece of land. My mother' s funeral expenses had ended
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with the little money she was saving and she needed money soon on the weekend
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we went to her grandparents, explained our intentions to them and when my wife
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went with her grandmother to prepare the food, I took advantage to talk to
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her grandfather. A tall man, with an imposing physicist, the product of
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a life dedicated to the countryside, an always serious and immutable tempel and a
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deep and tired look. He listened motionless and after throwing me in the face
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of the little man I was unable to provide for my family, he told
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me that we could occupy a room in his house, in which he gathered
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enough to be able to build my own home. I thanked him for his
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generosity and told him that as soon as we packed our belongings, we would
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move with them, although I stressed that it would be only temporary and that
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the presence of some children at home would surely feel better now that it was
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difficult to walk upright and without the help of that polished oak cane for years
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of use. The first night we spent at the grandparents' house, my
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daughter didn' t stop crying. It must have been the change, the
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light or something else. He was crying all night. My wife tried to
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calm her down in different ways, but nothing seemed to help. Even her
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crying made Grandma come a little upset to knock on the door asking us to
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shut the baby. I was tired, so I fell asleep The next day,
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my wife was not in such a good mood to go back to her
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grandparents' house and be waiting for a baby. Surely she had been nervous
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during the breakfast we shared in front of the rock stove that was cooking in
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that old house. I promised him that by the next fortnight we' d
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go for a walk into town to buy clothes for the baby. I told
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him I was sure he' d be a boy this time. She felt
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with her head and told me that, in case she were another woman,
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she would not bother me with her and that she would strive to give me
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the child she so longed for. I only answered him with a smile and
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told him not to worry that something told me that the baby on the way
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would be a man. During the week, some friends of my wife told
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him that they had heard that a charro surrounded me near the dam, which
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is located at the exits of the village and is the one that pours water
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to all the houses of the settlement. He told her to be careful,
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since many people said they had seen her come out of the bushes and call
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the pedestrians, she usually called the women, but she didn' t see
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her face. They said it was a spirit that lived in those places,
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since during the revolution they had hung many men to prevent them from putting up
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resistance during the looting. They were supposed to have shot many opposing peasants and
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military personnel in that area and that the bloodshed had been immense and since then
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they were souls seeking eternal rest. They looked like childish tales to me.
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Surely some young man had thought of dressing in charro and flirting with the ladies
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to see if any of them listened to him. I insisted that I wasn
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' t so gullible, as she was worried that something would happen to me
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when I was coming home or in the morning, when I was on that
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road to work. He gave me a crucifix that his mother had given him
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when he turned fifteen. To protect me the other day, I had to
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get to work early. My wife woke up early in the morning as usual
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to iron my uniform, heat the water for the bathroom, and make me
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a coffee for breakfast. Before I left I dressed as usual, I said
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goodbye to my wife and daughter and went out to work thinking about the chairs
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of the charro. When I passed through the dam, I saw a figure
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riding a horse. I thought it would be someone trying to play funny,
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since in the village no one had horses and it would surely be someone from
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a ranch that was relatively close. I kept walking and gave him the good
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morning, but he didn' t answer me. He just saw me moving
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forward. While riding. I continued to advance and just as I passed the
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rider' s side, I felt a strange presence. The body was jealous.
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The beautiful ones came to me as if they warned me of a great
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danger and my senses became more acute. I sweated cold and even though I
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was trying to turn my head to see who that figure was on that black
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horse, I couldn' t do it. I was amazed for a few
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seconds that felt eternal and when I could finally move my head, the figure
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had disappeared. I went a couple of steps ahead and ended up puking.
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I got the Rnomenzó to hurt my head and tried to go home, but
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I knew my wife' s grandfather wouldn' t stop calling me a coward
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and a little man, so I continued my course. The work flowed from
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the normal. I took an aspirin for the headache, but I couldn'
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t eat anything. The disgust remained throughout the day and for a moment I
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managed to put aside what had happened that morning until it was time to go
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home, I had to go and leave the truck to the station and wait
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for my partner to take care of the rest. It slowed down a bit,
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so the truck back left me down on the detour and I started my
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way back. That night there was a full moon. The clouds had drifted
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away, so there was enough light to be able to walk without much trouble.
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As I approached the prey more fear I felt speeded up the pace until
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a black dog dragging a thick chain crossed my path. He had not heard
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how his such piece of metal had made no noise with the rocks, but
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there was a rather large animal and that he had never seen. There he
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looked like a coyote and stared at me as if he wanted to challenge me
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I tried to scare him by yelling at him and making sudden movements and sounds,
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but the animal didn' t even immut itself. After praying our father,
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I took enough courage to move forward. The animal just stood still.
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I passed by him and that' s when I really noticed his dimensions.
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I was up to my waist and I' m a tall man, a
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ninety, so I wasn' t an average animal at all. I waited
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for him to try to bite me or attack me, but he stood still.
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Without further ado. I continued my path until I lost sight of that
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animal. He had probably escaped from some house in some nearby village. As
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I approached the top of the road, I noticed a figure for everything in
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the middle of the road. He looked like a Calvinist monk. Judging by
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his silhouette, he might own the animal. I thought and somehow gave me
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some confidence, so I walked quietly, but this one got out of the
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way and stood sideways with one hand. He signaled me to approach, so,
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without hesitation, I did. I tried to see his face, but
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the hood covered his chin up, even though the moonlight radiated in the sky.
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He called me by my name, which surprised me, as I had
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never seen him in the village and no one had commented on his presence.
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He told me he knew everything about me, that he had been on the
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lookout and that he had a deal for me. I was excited and kept
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asking how I knew who I was and who had sent it or if it
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was a joke with a very soft voice and a passive tone, he told
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me that he knew he needed money and that he could give me enough to
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never have to worry anymore. With a stick holding in his other hand,
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he marked a cross on the ground and né said that just below that mark
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there were barrels full of gold. Enough for me, but the condition for
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me to spend a peseta was that with that gold I would send to build
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a church. As he told me he pointed with the stick to the dam
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told me that in that place he would build a church, but without Catholic
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symbols. It gave me very exact specifications of how I wanted it. A
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red carpet had to extend from the entrance to the bottom. Some moldings had
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to be made with the gold I was going to find if I accepted the
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Treaty and could not talk to anyone about it. But he wanted something else,
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too. He told me that the baby my wife expected would be a
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boy and the condition for me to spend the rest of the treasure as I
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please, was that as soon as the baby was born, I would give
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it to him. He gave me an exact date. On March 3,
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my son would be born and that same day, at midnight, I had
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to go back to where we met to give him to the infant. He
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would allow me to extract the money and once his church was built, I
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would never hear from him again. I was perplexed. I could not ask
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anything else, even though many questions crossed my mind. After he finished instructing
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me, he entered the mountain and disappeared between the trees and the weeds.
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I went home with my mind blank and when I finally arrived, the headaches
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returned and with them the nausea and vomiting. I had a temperature. That
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night, my wife took care of me and I showed no significant improvement until
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Grandma brought some alcohol herbs and an egg. He told me that I had
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surely encountered something evil and needed to extract all those negative energies that had entered
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my body. He performed the Clean ritual and when he revealed what was inside
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the egg, a reddish liquid came out as if it were blood, but
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the egg was fresh. I had collected it that very morning from the henhouse
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he sent me to rest and within a few days I felt good again.
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They asked me a lot of questions, but I didn' t answer them
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I just evaded the conversation. Finally, on March 3, my wife began
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with the pains of childbirth. They sent me to look for the midwife and
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after nine hours of pain, my baby was born and, just as those
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dreams and monk had anticipated me, he was a male. What happened next
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you can imagine for yourself, but that child was the only son male that
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I could have an anonymous account.