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- 0:05When I met that Witch, I was sixteen. I lived with my parents,
- 0:11my two sisters, and an aunt who was single. We all shared
- 0:15an old house inherited from my grandparents. When I was 15 years old and
- 0:21went to high school, I wanted to have some money to buy things that
- 0:26I occupied at school. So, the moment I knew it was on lists,
- 0:30I decided to look for a job. Fortunately, my mom agreed with
- 0:35me, so she helped me work in the same market she worked on.
- 0:41It was a large market of those who call supply, the unloading markets,
- 0:46where many people come to buy wholesale to supply their businesses. I went in
- 0:52as an assistant to Don Pancho' s place, a gentleman who was a
- 0:56close friend of my mother' s, as I had met my late grandfather
- 1:00when they were young. My job was to be downloading and accommodating the product.
- 1:04Although it was a very heavy job, I liked working there. After
- 1:10eight or ten months of starting work at the premises, I began to follow
- 1:14a woman who was waiting until I could attend to her to begin to be
- 1:19her request. She also started tipping me good tips for taking care of her
- 1:26first came in every week. Then I started seeing her every two or three
- 1:29days at the market, although sometimes I didn' t get to the place
- 1:33where I was. She was trying to come over and say hello when she
- 1:38came to buy. She was always very insistent with everyone. I told them
- 1:41I just wanted to be taken care of by me, so it didn'
- 1:46t matter how busy she was. I was waiting for the time it would
- 1:49take me once to wait more than half an hour. I apologized, but
- 1:53he replied that there was no problem, because the commission for his business was
- 1:59not yet nice. Then she told me that she was coming to the store
- 2:04in the background, one that I didn' t know about, to fill
- 2:08all the things in her business, but that they always took a long time,
- 2:13so she used to buy what was missing in her house. The place
- 2:15she went to was a provider of herbal tea and naturist things, or at
- 2:20least everyone knew it, but as a secret to the public, she was
- 2:23well known for supplying only special products, those considered magical and among those things.
- 2:30There were herbs, medicinal plants, some parts of animals, and so
- 2:36on. One morning working as usual, the owner passed by and stopped where
- 2:40I was finishing to accommodate some packages. After seeing me work for a while,
- 2:46she asked me why that one, ma' am, took so long
- 2:51to talk to me. When I came to buy, he wanted to know
- 2:54if I knew her from somewhere else or was a friend of my family.
- 2:58I told her the truth that I' d never seen her before, but
- 3:01I liked to take good care of her for the tips she left me at
- 3:07the time. He no longer said anything else, but began to behave differently.
- 3:10When she was close, even when he was late to the place,
- 3:15he was always on the lookout. Whether she had gone or happened. That
- 3:19' s where it started to get routine. The arrival of the lady every
- 3:23day almost always bought. Sometimes I' d just talk for a while.
- 3:28He said he' d come by to say hello because he had time.
- 3:31When I was a year old working on the site, it was no longer
- 3:37strange that she came with me to dispatch her. She always looked very nice
- 3:40and, although she looked like a normal lady, there were details that she
- 3:45didn' t feel normal. I remember that he always wore several chains around
- 3:50his neck and from them hung stones of christian colors or figures of saints.
- 3:54On the wrists. She had many bracelets, but almost all of them were
- 3:59red and, besides, she never wore light colors on her clothes. He
- 4:02always wore skirts or long dresses that hid his feet. His hair was of
- 4:09a very deep black man who grew long, rough and free, as he
- 4:14never held it. The most disturbing thing was that sometimes you could see some
- 4:18tattoos on your chest and back. I realized that I always tried to cover
- 4:25them up when I felt her clothes moved, leaving them exposed and looking around
- 4:30as if looking for someone who had noticed them without being close, because I
- 4:36never gave her confidence to be. He started asking me about my parents or
- 4:41my coworkers. Then he began to ask much more personal questions. Each question
- 4:47was answered little or nothing. I didn' t say anything concrete to her
- 4:53and evaded her as much as I could. Don Pancho was trying to get
- 4:57into the talk. When he started talking to me and he called me to
- 5:00ask me for some nonsense. He also anticipated the time of his arrival,
- 5:03so he sent me to run some errands so I wouldn' t be on
- 5:08the premises. A while in what she was leaving was so insistent the way
- 5:12the owner was taking care of me that between jokes my colleagues began to make
- 5:16certain ideas of what was going on, so they all started saying that I
- 5:21was dating that woman, but that my mom had asked the owner to do
- 5:26his best to get away from her. I tried to work without listening to
- 5:32what they said. Not paying attention to them was the best thing I could
- 5:38do, as I had tried to explain the truth to them, but they
- 5:43didn' t believe me anything like that had ever happened to me. That
- 5:45' s why I didn' t know how to answer them and let the
- 5:48owner help me get rid of that woman. That' s why I got
- 5:51cold when she went straight to get me. Nor had I imagined that she
- 5:57had any second intention with me. I was a naive young man. One
- 6:01of those days she had gone to the place was to ask for me directly
- 6:06and a girl told her that I had been sent for breakfast. That'
- 6:12s why he caught me off guard. I didn' t know how to
- 6:15get out of there. So I decided to do what was always nice,
- 6:17but to make it clear that I didn' t consider her a friend.
- 6:24Despite my efforts to be distant, he began to talk to me as if
- 6:29we were known for a long time. I was being very nice, even
- 6:33trying to be nice to me. She also showed up and told me that
- 6:39she was Maria Helena I couldn' t say anything because I didn' t
- 6:46understand what she was doing exactly being so friendly. Fortunately, they gave me
- 6:48breakfast and as fast as I could I grabbed the bags telling him to have
- 6:53a good day. She stopped me by the arm hard and a horrible feeling
- 6:58made me tingle all the skin she touched. I pulled my arm a little
- 7:01to get out, but she did fit her fingernails a little bit, wondering
- 7:06if I was doing well at school. I told her something like enough to
- 7:10walk with my girlfriend Childishly. I thought that would make it clear to her
- 7:15that I wasn' t interested in women older than me. The time of
- 7:20departure came and I left as fast as I could to my house to keep
- 7:25her from talking to me if I kept waiting through the market halls. When
- 7:30I was near the house, I relaxed thinking the worst had already happened.
- 7:35But as I walked I saw a red handkerchief tied on the lamppost on the
- 7:41street in front of the door of my house. In addition, in the
- 7:46place where the woman had grabbed my arm so as not to let me go
- 7:50there was some kind of stinging hive that started to itch me a lot,
- 7:56causing me to scratch until I pulled blood out of my fingernails, but I
- 8:00didn' t give it much importance. Already at night, when I returned
- 8:03from school with a fever, I came home, willing to just throw myself
- 8:07into the sleeping chair until the next day, when my mom saw me coming
- 8:11in immediately, she got up from the chair I was in and took me
- 8:16out of the house. As soon as I came in, he took me
- 8:20a few meters away from the front door to have a private conversation with me,
- 8:26as they were all there and the house was small. I hadn'
- 8:28t even had time to take my backpack off. When she was already pulling
- 8:33me out of the house to ask me who Maria Elena was. I told
- 8:37her I had no idea who she was asking me about, but she told
- 8:41me that someone had told her that she and I were talking at the tacos
- 8:46station. That morning I told her what I knew that, madam, was
- 8:52a client who liked me to take care of her, who had been leaving
- 8:56me good tips, but that I was not her friend who had only met
- 9:01in line to buy breakfast. That morning, my mom was very worried and
- 9:07seeing her face of annoyance, I swore to her that I had nothing to
- 9:11do with her and that even Don Pancho had been helping me get rid of
- 9:15her. So, when I wanted to I could go ask her, my
- 9:22quieter mom, told me that the problem was not that we talked or she
- 9:26went to the market. What she feared was that she was interested in doing
- 9:28something to me, as some of the locals knew she was openly involved in
- 9:33witchcraft and many people were going to hire her to do horrible things to others.
- 9:39She told me that some market workers had seen her near her house.
- 9:45Irrecognisable aged and others living near her said they all knew their suspicious night trips.
- 9:52I laughed openly. I thought there was something more serious going on with
- 9:58her, but that was stories that people made up, because the lady was
- 10:01crazy. She persevered after I stopped laughing and warned me that witches are not
- 10:05being played or dealt with. Then she pulled a saying out of her mandile
- 10:11bag, it was a St Benedict medal and told me to let me wear
- 10:16it, even though I didn' t want it because I didn' t
- 10:18believe in it. When he put it to me, I promised I'
- 10:22d start looking for another place to work. My mother was a superstitious person,
- 10:28but she asked me to stay at the place where I was. I
- 10:31totally thought I was safer if I kept helping Don Pancho. Without saying anything
- 10:37else. We broke into the house, but before closing the door, I
- 10:41felt a picket in my arm and when I checked the place, I realized
- 10:46that the area where the hive was was red. That night I slept badly,
- 10:52I began to have nightmares about places I had never seen or strange animals
- 10:56that I no longer remember well what they were like. The only thing I
- 11:01remember distinctly is that I saw several times a cat staring at me all the
- 11:05time. The day after I went to work as usual, Mrs Maria Elena
- 11:11came as if nothing had happened. I was sorry I was so naive to
- 11:16think that telling her I had a girlfriend, she was gonna stop being interested
- 11:20in me. A few days later, he asked me about the medal he
- 11:26had hanging around his neck. She told me that without my girlfriend giving me
- 11:28that as a gift, I, as always, answered halfway and evaded her
- 11:35Despite her insistence for the medal, I began to see a change in her
- 11:39somehow. Little by little, her visits began to become less and less frequent
- 11:43and after a few months I started to see her little by where I worked,
- 11:50passing by waving and leaving immediately, so I thought I had gotten rid
- 11:54of her. Unfortunately, whether she went or not, to which she had
- 11:58become the least of my problems, as nightmares had been constant since the day
- 12:03she came to seek me, so my physical state was very bad. I
- 12:09was sleeping little by little, I had lost the desire to eat, and
- 12:13little by little I could tell that I was tireder or thinner. Although I
- 12:18did my best to keep myself well so as not to worry anyone, I
- 12:22was afraid something serious was really happening to me, as I had started to
- 12:28have pain in my left arm all the time. I didn' t imagine
- 12:31that pain was a symptom that the worst was yet to come. One afternoon,
- 12:35at the time of my departure from work, one of my colleagues asked
- 12:39me if I did not miss my admirer, but I acted without interest in
- 12:45the question, although inside a warning signal woke up, Although I tried not
- 12:50to bring the subject up or just pretend that I did not listen to what
- 12:54she was saying to me, she insisted on asking me about Mrs María Elena.
- 12:58Every time I had a chance. A few more days he kept insisting
- 13:03on me, but I still didn' t interest him. That' s
- 13:07why I' ve been tired of trying to hear from me. I guess
- 13:13in order to inform her, she gave me a folded paper on which a
- 13:16number was coming. She told me to mark Maria Helena, because my friend
- 13:20was worried about me. Besides, she was very sad that everyone thought badly
- 13:24of her and forbade her from coming to me. I was very disturbed by
- 13:30that. It was obvious that that woman had been watching me somehow. I
- 13:35left the part. Made ball in one of the bags in my backpack with
- 13:39the idea of giving it to Don Pancho, but I completely forgot I had
- 13:43it. That same day, when the night was falling, I went to
- 13:48the store to buy something for dinner, and then I saw her standing on
- 13:52the street. First I thought I was wrong, but then I completely identified
- 13:56Maria Elena. I was standing right on the corner where the block where I
- 14:03lived ended. He didn' t explain to me how he found out about
- 14:07my address, but he was there on the other side of the street,
- 14:13seeing me without taking my eyes off. I saw her weird, she didn
- 14:16' t say anything, and I didn' t see any intention of getting
- 14:16close to me. He didn' t try to call me either, so
- 14:20I took the cloak and started walking without listening to him. I was staring
- 14:24at her staring at what she was going to do, so I realized she
- 14:28was wearing a dress that left her tattoos exposed. Her hair looked tangled and
- 14:33on her face there was an expression of anger, despite the oddness of seeing
- 14:39her there, what caught my attention were those tattoos of symbols that scared me,
- 14:43even though I didn' t understand them. They were not five-
- 14:48peak stars, as all people often say witches use, They were many letters
- 14:54accompanied by geometric figures. Before I got into my shop where she was and
- 15:00she smiled at me like she always did, but her face told me she
- 15:03was very upset. When I left the store, it was a long time
- 15:09later because I was waiting there not to see her, knowing that I had
- 15:15the free passage to go to my house, I walked quickly watching my back,
- 15:20because I didn' t know if she had hidden to wait for me
- 15:26was walking around looking everywhere for her to show up, but she didn'
- 15:28t. When I turned around to open the gate of my house, I
- 15:33felt small needles on my back and screamed of pain. My family ran away
- 15:37listening to me scream. I was fighting something I couldn' t see because
- 15:43his weight had thrown me face to face. I' m sure I heard
- 15:48a woman' s laugh between the attack I received, but out of confusion
- 15:52I know it could have been anything else. I was trying to get off
- 15:56my back, which I was scratching. When I felt a stream of ice
- 16:00water pour over me, I rose from the sidewalk as I saw my blood
- 16:06splashed everywhere. My mom covered my eyes with one hand and told me not
- 16:10to see. My dad apologized for throwing ice water at me. When I
- 16:15arrived at the Green Cross and had to explain what had happened to me,
- 16:18I could only say that I felt very dizzy. My dad commented that when
- 16:22he ran to the door, when he heard my scream, he saw like
- 16:26a black cat bigger than normal. I was scratching my back while I was
- 16:32lying face down and it only occurred to him to throw water at me to
- 16:36see if the animal ran out. So that animal had run away when it
- 16:41felt the water, although no one knew where it had gone. By the
- 16:47time they were cleaning my wounds, I only listened as the doctor and nurse
- 16:52made some noises that troubled me. Apparently, he was worse than they expected.
- 16:57After a few hours they knew how to sew some areas. Then I
- 17:03told them that my left arm was also in horrible pain. Although they checked
- 17:08thoroughly, they found nothing more than an ant- like bite and told me
- 17:12that I could feel pain in other areas because of the beatings. Because of
- 17:18the fall back to the house, I saw the corner where Maria Elena was
- 17:23standing before that cat threw itself in my back to scratch me. When I
- 17:29was thinking about it, it was that I saw the huge black cat almost
- 17:33the size of a medium dog sitting in the same corner. Licking my legs,
- 17:38I yelled at my parents that that was the animal and ran out after
- 17:42him. But before I could cross the street, I noticed the red paliacate
- 17:47tied on the pole. Without thinking about the pain of moving I went to
- 17:52tear that cloth off while my dad had run after the animal without being able
- 17:56to reach it. That night, my parents accompanied me sitting in silence until
- 18:02I fell asleep between dreams. I heard my mom crying as she told my
- 18:07dad that she had saved me by miracle, because she was sure that the
- 18:11medal had protected me from something worse. After that I never heard my parents
- 18:15talk about it again and my family did everything they could to make me feel
- 18:19better. During those two months that I was in recovery from the wounds,
- 18:26my aunt mainly took care of me before going to work, and my mom
- 18:30took care of me when she arrived. They wouldn' t leave me alone
- 18:36if they weren' t for some reason, my sisters or my dad stayed
- 18:41with me those days I slept a lot, but I never rested. I
- 18:45began to have dreams that looked like ghostly visions where I saw Maria Elena,
- 18:49but the same data always appeared. The constant in those dreams was that I
- 18:56was hiding somewhere so they couldn' t find me. I remember one night
- 19:03I woke up with back pain, but it was an identical feeling at the
- 19:07time of the attack, so I started screaming. My aunt approached the chair
- 19:11where I was sleeping and began to hug me while I was praying, but
- 19:17I felt my back broken, so I tried to take it off. My
- 19:21older sister was looking through the meds for something to calm the pain. My
- 19:26mother accompanied the prayers of my aunt and my sisters tossed bags looking for pain
- 19:32medication. At that moment, my little sister screamed. Then everyone else shouted,
- 19:37but I couldn' t pay attention to what was going on in the
- 19:41pain. That night, many birds crashed into the windows and doors. In
- 19:48the morning, the smell was awful, so it had to be many days
- 19:52before I could clean everything up. The pain in my back went off on
- 19:56its own. Little by little. They didn' t take anything for some
- 20:02reason. The attacks stopped as well as I don' t know them.
- 20:07Maybe she got bored of what she was doing to me. I want to
- 20:11imagine that maybe my family' s prayers helped keep everything in peace, but
- 20:15I doubt things would end there. For me, because I still sometimes have
- 20:21intermittent pain in my left arm. I' d like to add to my
- 20:26story that I' m a single man. I' ve never been able
- 20:30to have a stable couple, even though I' m lucky enough to have
- 20:33two children. I know I' m gonna die alone. That woman'
- 20:37s curse stayed forever and I know I' ll never understand why or what
- 20:41she wanted from me, because she never hinted at anything or said something clear.
- 20:45I' m not going to look for her to know either I'
- 20:52m content to get an anonymous story alive.