La Piedra de Aserrí

This happen in a Little town named Aserri, this town was rule by a one handsome man and had a many girls that followed him, but one witch named Zarate was falling in love with him, she was a plump woman, she wasn’t beautifull, and had a big black eyes. She had a mysterious gaze, and when she talked she raised her eyebrow, always combed her hair with a braid.

Zárate used to cured some type of diseases, and in some cases that she couldn´t do anything she give a gift a to the people some fruits like grapefruit, oranges and when they come back to their house this fruits were transformed in gold coins and gemstones.

One day the proud man contempt she, but she swear revenge, and some days after the house where he lived turned into stone, the people that lived with he were converted animals, and the governor in a bautiful peacock. One afternoon Diogenes Olmedo went to visit a the witch Zarate, because he wanted to be lucky, he walked around 6 hours, he was tired and decided to a break in a stone, he was frustrated because he couldn’t talk with Zarate, but he fell asleep, suddenly he saw some white pigeons, and that said to him “if you want to talk with Zarate hits 3 times the stone and say this”

“Busco en vano mi ideal

años caminando y siempre en pie,

linda Zárate escucha y ábreme

por el amor del pavo real”

inmedialy the pigeons left and it fall out white rose petal. When he woke up, he hits 3 time the stone and Zarate appered, with tabaco in one han, and with a peacock in the other. And she said: tell me good men what do you want? I can please you? Diogenes come near to her, and told his sad history, his widowhood, his angry and sick children.

 The witch Zarate asked him when his wife died? And he said: No she is not dead; she disappear one day when she was in the river of the mountain. We never know more about her and her friends, they disappeared in a mysterious way, her named was Lupita Olmedo. 

In that moment Zarate raised her eyebown, and said: just because you beg in the named of my peacock I give you all that you need, but you have to walk more than hour and go up to the mountain, when he can arrive to the mountain he look a lagoon with oranges, lemons and all that he need to survive, in that moment Zarate said: this is the food for your sons... and you can take, suddenly 12 pigeons appear and the witch said this pigeon are going to be your guide and she disappear. 

When the man come back to his house, he was thinking and was disappointed, and he said why this fruit? Is a lot!! When he was in the middle of the way some fruits the fall down in the river. When he saw his sons they asked what the witch gift him; Diogenes pretending that he was happy, told showed all the fruit that Zarate gift them, and in the next day 12 pigeon come to them and gift a surprise.

The children went to sleep that day, but they were waiting to the next day for look the surprise that their father said, in the next day all the fruit were coverted in gold, and in the afternoon they hear barking dogs and horse footsteps what would be the surprise that twelve walkers returned one morning, happily went to the mountain and did not return. Lupita Olmedo came galloping forward to shake his children and his inconsolable husband. And had the Zárate witch, to see them bathing in the river had the idea of turning them into white doves and transform her and her friends. As for the peacock, he promised that as soon consents to her husband, restores its original form, but the Spanish honorable retain his ancestry, must resign himself to being a Peacock prisoner before the sorceress husband released.