EL TILCUATE

This story is named "El Tilcuate".

First of all I must tell you that I may have dreamed or my grandfather told me about it, I don`t  remember well.

When I was seven or eight years old He used to talk to me about his life`s stories and sometimes He used to tell me an eerie one.

So let`s begin with this story that happened about 40 or 45 years ago.

People that used to go through the hill called " Las Peñas"  for firewood to cook their food or sell it, often said that there was a big snake in the hill near the river, in this time there was plenty of vegetation in "Las Peñas", trees and there was a small river too, the snake persecuted the people who crossed near this place, the snake moved quickly like She had many feet, people named her " El Tilcuate".

Once a woodsman said that He saw the snake eating a boy, so the people who lived near the hill were very scared. After that many people said that They saw the snake on dim nights vanishing near their houses.

Some times after the snake disappeared, no one else looked for her again.