{"id":46234,"date":"2025-10-31T18:44:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localguide.mx\/?p=46234"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:53:08","slug":"cronicas-y-leyendas-04-la-bruja-de-san-miguel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localguide.mx\/en\/cronicas-y-leyendas-04-la-bruja-de-san-miguel\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles and Legends 04 The Witch of San Miguel"},"content":{"rendered":"

We thank Brenda Araiza<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is whispered among the cobbled streets of San Miguel<\/a> Specifically on Loreto Street, there lived an old woman of strange appearance who used to have advanced knowledge of herbal medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lady also used to talk to herself, giving her a very unusual appearance, so rumors soon began to spread among the townspeople, who started calling her a witch and fearing her presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If they found her in the streets, the children would cry and the adults would back away to avoid any curse from the actually harmless old woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was one day when a horse bolted and almost ran her over, but the lady managed to calm it down when the villagers could no longer bear it and called a town assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There they decided to capture her, since not even the Father himself dared to approach her to make her confess her Pact with the Devil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So one day, as the lady was walking through the streets, the villagers ambushed her and tied her to a tree to force her to confess her ties to witchcraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But the innocent lady proclaimed herself innocent and called it all a mistake, saying that she only possessed more advanced medical knowledge and that she treated the animals with love and that was why they loved her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the meanest woman in town, Guadalupe, told her that if she didn't confess that she was a witch they would continue to torture her, and the woman, to ease her pain, did so, and as soon as she forcibly expressed that she was a witch, Guadalupe and the townspeople decided to burn her at the stake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But at that moment the same horse that had been tamed by the lady reared up and other animals became aggressive towards the people and saved the lady from certain death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was then that the mischievous little devil appeared to the lady, saying he disapproved of what had been done to her and that he would avenge her honor against all those who had wronged her. However, the devil hadn't counted on the lady's benevolence, for she begged for mercy against her tormentors, since her heart knew only the power of forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The devil, moved by her plight, agreed not to take revenge in her name but promised to always watch over her. Even after her death, the San Miguel premises<\/a> They are afraid to approach the house of the "old witch," but those who are already more informed know that it was just a poorly told story of a lady ahead of her time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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