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Los zopes no se paraban nunca en el<br />

tejado. A veces el gavilán le hacía un<br />

pase, con su cruz <strong>de</strong> sombra; y dicen<br />

que la casa se encogía y pujaba. Taba<br />

embrujada. De noche se oiba el juí, juí<br />

<strong>de</strong> una hamaca. Un chucho, que llegó<br />

un día a oler la casa, salió dando gritos<br />

<strong>de</strong> gente por el monte y montado en su<br />

cola.<br />

Las hojas enormes <strong>de</strong> los majonchos<br />

le hacían cosquillas a la casa con las<br />

puntas. Sus sombras, en forma <strong>de</strong><br />

cejas, se mecían en las pare<strong>de</strong>s, que<br />

parecían hacer muecas nerviosas. En un<br />

ventanuco que estaba en la culata una<br />

araña había enrejado, por si abrían...<br />

Las hormigas guerreadoras le habían<br />

puesto barba en una esquina. De<br />

cuando en cuando, una teja <strong>de</strong>sertaba<br />

en el viento. Una tar<strong>de</strong> en que Ulalio se<br />

acercó, le hablaron <strong>de</strong>s<strong>de</strong> a<strong>de</strong>ntro. Puso<br />

atención, y oyó la voz, sin enten<strong>de</strong>r las<br />

palabras: “era como que vaceyan un<br />

cántaro” <strong>de</strong>cía, “me <strong>de</strong>ntró un friyo<br />

feyo en el lomo y salí a la carrera”.<br />

Una vez pasó cerca el cura. Le pidieron<br />

consejo y él quiso ir a ver la casa <strong>de</strong>l<br />

embrujo. Se apió; y, remangándose<br />

la sotana, fue al platanar con Ulalio, la<br />

Chana y Julián.<br />

—¿Quién vivió allí?<br />

40<br />

Vultures would never dare stand on<br />

the roof. Sometimes, the sparrowhawk<br />

passed over the house leaving behind<br />

his shadow like a dark cross. People say<br />

that when that happened, the house<br />

shrank and creaked. T’was haunted.<br />

At night, one could hear the whoosh<br />

whoosh of the hanging hammock.<br />

A sniffing dog that came by one day<br />

sud<strong>de</strong>nly sped off for the woods riding<br />

his tail, howling like a human.<br />

The huge majoncho leaves tickled the<br />

house with their tips. Their shadows,<br />

shaped like eyebrows, swung on the<br />

walls as if they were making nervous<br />

faces. On a small window located in the<br />

rear, a spi<strong>de</strong>r wove her web just in case<br />

someone were to open it.<br />

Warrior ants had woven the shape of a<br />

beard on one corner. Once in a while,<br />

a roof tile would fly away carried by<br />

the wind. One afternoon when Ulalio<br />

approached the house, someone<br />

spoke to him from insi<strong>de</strong> the house. He<br />

listened and heard the voice, but did<br />

not un<strong>de</strong>rstand the words. “It was like<br />

someone was emptying a clay jug” he<br />

said. “A creepy chill crept around my<br />

shoul<strong>de</strong>rs, then I took off.”<br />

One day a priest passed by mounted<br />

on a horse. The town resi<strong>de</strong>nts asked<br />

for his advice, but instead he <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d<br />

to investigate the haunted house for<br />

himself. He dismounted, and adjusting<br />

his cassock walked towards the plantain<br />

grove with Ulalio, Chana, and Julián.<br />

“Who lived there?”

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