Satrustegi
SM-012a
- Record: SM-012a
- Piece: A03
- Time: 00:14:10 - 00:27:53
- Themes: witchcraft
- Summary: (Speaking in Spanish) When his grandfather became ill, they used a cure which had to be left for forty nights at the window light. Each night the medicine would burn at the window. When his grandfather died the oxen from the house ran away up the mountain taking two lightbulbs. They could not find the oxen for three days. A girl, who suffered turns it seems since the time that she refused some eggs to a woman who had begged for them, told them where the oxen were. That same girl said that she had seen a widow woman from Ochagavía, who had married for the second time time to a man from Abaurrea Baja, do a dance over the dead body along with some other women. One night that it had snowed the oxen managed to escape a second time when they were out drinking water and they got lost. The same girl as before told them where they were. Some lads from the villages went to play and when they stopped to have a rest, the same girl from the village was capable of hearing the conversation. One of the sons of the woman from Ochagavía entered the seminary but he had to leave it later on. Another son, when he was parading around with his mates in fiestas, stopped at one house and broke the nob of the knocker so as not to do any badness to the family. Neither the grandmother nor the speaker believe in witchcraft but all that really happened. When the speaker was in her cot he used to cry non-stop. The priest from Garaioa told them that she should be read the gospels. They were read to her as she slept and she never used to cry after that.
