Urban or Rural Legends? (13 TALES)

The lesson about urban legends reminded me a book that I used to have (I lended and you all know what always happens to books that one lends). That book was called “13 cuentos supersticiosos del sur” from writer Marino Berigüete, and it was about a lot of events that happenned in those provinces, one of them was about “La Ciguapa” and a man who fell in love with one of them and no one saw him again. But some people say that could see him turned into a phantom, walking by the riverside.

I remember another story called “La cura del mal de amores”, which was about a girl called Yamilé, who was the beloved child of a man who wasn’t a bad person, but he was very materialist, and when he found that his daughter was having a relationship with his employee, he went to Haiti and sold the soul of his employee to the devil, so, the boy died and Yamilé was completely disconsolate, until she went to live to the top of a mountain where an old women planted a tree which gave a fruit that everytime she felt sad, made her feel much better.

My favorite was “La casa embrujada” because I found it just hilarious! In a moment of the narration, there was a man telling everyone he was brave and he could throw the demon out of the house, and he went outside of the house telling everyone he could defeat the spirit, and just then came a chair flying out of the house and hit him in his back.

Finally, which could gets close more to an urband legend is the tale about three friends, two of them brothers who used to say they would never believe in spirits, and their friend used to tell them that spirits do get out of their graves. One night they were at the cinema, and when the brothers started their way home, they saw a very odd women, who was wearing a cape. They tried to talked to her but she was like walking in the air. They pursued her and she went inside a cementery and slowly disappeared before their eyes. They returned home completely sick, with vomit and diarrhea, and only repeating the words “Los espíritus salen!”.