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004 - Legend of the Calle de la Quemada - Mexican · Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 05

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  Speaker 1: Legend of the Caye de la Kemada by Tomas Alibon Hanviere.
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  Speaker 1: Not knowing what they are talking about, senor many people
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  Speaker 1: will tell you, the street of the Burnt Woman got
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  Speaker 1: its name because in the times when the Holy Office
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  Speaker 1: was helping the goodness of good people by making things
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  Speaker 1: very bad for the bad ones, a woman heretic most
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  Speaker 1: properly and satisfactorily was burned there. Such is not in
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  Speaker 1: the least the case Lakemadero of the Inquisition, where such
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  Speaker 1: sinners were burned that their sins might be burned out
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  Speaker 1: of them, was nowhere near the Caya de Lacemaala, being
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  Speaker 1: at the western end of what is now the A
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  Speaker 1: la Mela, in quite a different part of town. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: it is a mistake to mix these matters. And the
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  Speaker 1: real truth is that this beautiful young lady did herself
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  Speaker 1: destroy her own beauty by getting fire to it, and
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  Speaker 1: she did it because she wanted to do it. That
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  Speaker 1: in that way she might settle some doubts which were
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  Speaker 1: in her heart. It all happened in the time of
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  Speaker 1: the good Viceroy Don Luisa Velasco, and so you will perceive, Senor,
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  Speaker 1: that this story is more than three hundred years old.
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  Speaker 1: The name of this beautiful young lady who went to
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  Speaker 1: such lengths for her heart's assuring was Sona Patris Espinosa,
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  Speaker 1: and the name of her father was Don Gonzalo the
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  Speaker 1: Spinosa Iquevra, who was the Spanish rich merchant who came
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  Speaker 1: to make himself still richer by his buyings and sellings,
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  Speaker 1: and New Spain. Being arrived here, he took up his
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  Speaker 1: abode in a fine dwelling in the quarter of San Pablo.
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  Speaker 1: And the very street that is now called the street
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  Speaker 1: of the burned Woman, because of what presently happened there.
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  Speaker 1: And if that street was called by some other name
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  Speaker 1: before that cruel happening, I do not know what it was.
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  Speaker 1: Dona Patris was as beautiful signor as the full moon
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  Speaker 1: and the best of the stars put together. And she
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  Speaker 1: was more virtuous than she was beautiful, and she was
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  Speaker 1: just twenty years old. Therefore, all the young gentlemen of
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  Speaker 1: the city immediately fell in love with her in great
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  Speaker 1: numbers of the richest and noblest of them. Their parents
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  Speaker 1: or other suitable persons making the requests for them, asked
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  Speaker 1: her father's permission to wed her, so that Dounia Patris
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  Speaker 1: might have had any one of the twenty good husbands,
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  Speaker 1: had any one of them been to her mind. However,
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  Speaker 1: being a lady very particular in the matter of husbands,
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  Speaker 1: not one of them was to our liking. Wherefore her
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  Speaker 1: father did as she wanted him to do and refused
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  Speaker 1: them all. But on a day matters went differently. At
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  Speaker 1: a great ball given by the Visceroy in the palace,
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  Speaker 1: Dona Patris found what her heart had been waiting for,
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  Speaker 1: and this was a noble Italian young gentleman, who instantly,
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  Speaker 1: as all the others had done, fell in love with her,
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  Speaker 1: and with whom, as she had never before done with anybody,
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  Speaker 1: she instantly fell in love. The name of this young
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  Speaker 1: gentleman was Don Mardin Cippoli, and he was the marquis
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  Speaker 1: that Pinamonte I Franticello. And he was as handsome as
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  Speaker 1: he was lovable, and of a most jealous nature, and
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  Speaker 1: as quarrelsome as it was possible for anybody to be. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: as I have said, Senor Dona Batrisa had once fell
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  Speaker 1: in love with him with all the heart of her,
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  Speaker 1: and Don Mardina once fell in love with her also,
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  Speaker 1: and so violently, that his jealousy of all her other
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  Speaker 1: lovers set off his quarrelsomeness at such a rate that
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  Speaker 1: he did nothing in his spare time when he was
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  Speaker 1: not making love to Dona Badris but affront and anger them,
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  Speaker 1: so that he might have the pleasure of finding them
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  Speaker 1: at the point of his sword. Now, Dona Batri Signor
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  Speaker 1: was a young lady of a most delicate nature, and
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  Speaker 1: her notions about love were precisely the same as those
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  Speaker 1: which are entertained by the lady angels. Therefore, Don Mardin's
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  Speaker 1: continual fightings very much worried her, raising in her heart
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  Speaker 1: the dread that so violent a person must be of
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  Speaker 1: a coarse and carnal nature, and that, being of such
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  Speaker 1: a nature, his love for her came only from his
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  Speaker 1: beblindment by the outside beauty of her, and was not,
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  Speaker 1: as her own love was the pure love of soul
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  Speaker 1: for soul. Moreover, she was pained by his being laid
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  Speaker 1: on by his jealousy for which there was no just
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  Speaker 1: occasion to in her seriously and even mortally, so many
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  Speaker 1: were the young men. Therefore, Donia Badris, after much thinking
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  Speaker 1: and a great deal of praying over the matter, made
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  Speaker 1: her mind up to destroy her own beauty, that in
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  Speaker 1: that way she might pull all the jealousies out of
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  Speaker 1: the question, and at the same time proved to her
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  Speaker 1: heart satisfying that don Mardine's love for her had nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with the outside beauty of her, and truly
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  Speaker 1: was the pure love of soul for soul. And Donna
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  Speaker 1: Batri Sennor did do that very thing, her father being
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  Speaker 1: gone abroad from his home, and all the servants of
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  Speaker 1: the house being on one excuse or another, sent out
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  Speaker 1: of it. She brought into her own chamber a brazier
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  Speaker 1: filled with burning coals, and this she set beneath an
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  Speaker 1: image of the blessed sainta Lucilla, that she had hung
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  Speaker 1: upon the wall to give strength to her in case,
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  Speaker 1: and doing herself so cruel an injury, her own strength
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  Speaker 1: should fail. Sainta Lucia, as you will remember, Seignorde with
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  Speaker 1: her own hands, plucked out her own wonderfully beautiful eyes
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  Speaker 1: and sent them on a platter to the young gentleman
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  Speaker 1: who had troubled her devotions by telling her that he
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  Speaker 1: could not live without them, and with them sent the
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  Speaker 1: message that since she had given him the eyes that
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  Speaker 1: he could not live without, he pleased would let her
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  Speaker 1: and her devotions alone. Therefore, it was clear that sainta
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  Speaker 1: Lucilla was a saint best fitted to oversee the matter
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  Speaker 1: that Dona Patris had in hand. But in regard to
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  Speaker 1: her eyes, Dounia Patris did not precisely pattern herself upon
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  Speaker 1: Saint Lucia, knowing that without them she could not see
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  Speaker 1: how Don Martin stood the test that she meant to
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  Speaker 1: put him to, and also very likely remembering that sainta
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  Speaker 1: Lucia miraculously got her eyes back again, and got them
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  Speaker 1: back even more beautiful than when she lost them, because
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  Speaker 1: you see, they came back filled with the light of heaven,
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  Speaker 1: where the angels had been taking care of them until
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  Speaker 1: they should be returned. Therefore, Donia Patris found a wet
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  Speaker 1: handkerchief over her eyes that she might keep the sight
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  Speaker 1: in them to see how Don Martin stood his testing,
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  Speaker 1: and also that she might spare the angels the inconvenience
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  Speaker 1: of caring for them. And then she fanned and fanned
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  Speaker 1: the fire in the brazier until the purring of it
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  Speaker 1: made her know the coals were in a fierce blaze,
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  Speaker 1: and thence she plunged her beautiful face down into the
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  Speaker 1: very heart of the glowing coals. And it was at
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  Speaker 1: that same instant, though Dounia Batris, of course did not
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  Speaker 1: know about that part of the matter, that the Street
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  Speaker 1: of the Burned Woman got its name, being managed under
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  Speaker 1: the guidance and with the approval of sainta Lucilla. The
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  Speaker 1: cruelty that this virtuous young lady put upon her own
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  Speaker 1: beauty could lead only to a good end. Presently, when
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  Speaker 1: the bitter pain of her burning had passed, a little
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  Speaker 1: Donia Patris bade do Mardin come to her, and he
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  Speaker 1: coming found for clad in virgin white and wearing over
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  Speaker 1: her poor burned face a white veil. And then the
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  Speaker 1: test that Dounia Batris had planned for her hearts a
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  Speaker 1: sharing was made. Little by little Dounia Patris raised her
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  Speaker 1: white veils slowly, and little by little don Martin saw
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  Speaker 1: the face of her, and the face of her was
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  Speaker 1: more shudderingly hideous. Her two beautiful eyes perfectly alight and alive, ammenst.
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  Speaker 1: That distorted deathliness was what made the shudder of it
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  Speaker 1: than anything that he had ever dreamt of in his
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  Speaker 1: very worst dream. Therefore, with great joy and thankfulness, Don
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  Speaker 1: Martin immediately espoused Dona Patrice, and thenceforth and always most reasonably,
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  Speaker 1: ceasing to love the outside beauty of her, gave her
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  Speaker 1: as she wanted him to give her, the pure love
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  Speaker 1: of soul for soul for myself, Senor, I think that
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  Speaker 1: the conduct of that young lady was unreasonable, and that
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  Speaker 1: Don Martin had just occasion to be annoyed and of
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  Speaker 1: Legend of the Calle de la Camade by Tomas Alibon
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