THE WITCHES

Of that they are it them is but it is not necessary to believe in them.

They assure, that the witches take the skin from themselves before demolishing, that they put it in soaking in a vat, and that then they take off saying without God or Holy Maria! To accede to the forces mas dark. Count the people that when they fly, they express laughs and incomprehensible singings, when there do not breath heavily to the wind clear fo-fo-fo, which they use also to banish those who discover them.


Say the peasants who when the witches do not fly in the nights, rest under the bushes of banana of the conucos. The witches suck the blood of the children, and extract it directly from the navel or from the big toe, across the hollow petiole of a leaf of higuereta Castors communes, or from that of a leaf of lechoza, Papaya Carina.

It is believed that the witches do not attack the children of her, godfathers, not to twin or twin. In all the rural communities there are witches' histories that were discovered in full flight. The process of catching a witch knows like " to knock down a witch ", and the "tumbadores" are persons with certain power, which the prayers and the special rituals know for this end. They say that when a witch is caught it is necessary to wait for the dawn, since when the Sun goes out the enchantment breaks and it is possible to discover the identity of the malignant woman. They assure that when it rains and is sunny, in some hidden place marrying this one a witch …