1. Regional Mexican Legends

2. Stars were everywhere in the night. In silence were the dirty streets in
Guatemala City.
All in silence. No noise.Tthe walls looked like wasted paper, paste to the
old ruins of the city near Sagrario Streets.
All were dyeing because of coldness In the Portal of Señor.
Matching 8 o’clock was the Cathedral clock, time for spirits come out from
somewhere.
Near the Old Cathedral Streets, on the sandy streets, time passed and
passed.
Then, a little noise was listened, even loader when time passed.
After, some steps where listened.
Then, the noisy steps, didn’t listened anymore. At the corner of the street, a
man of town was watched. He stopped, he saw to everywhere very slowly.
With a mysterious appearance, he turned to the next corner and he continues
walking, very slowly.

3. He seemed to be a miner.
When he approached to the houses the cried of dogs was listened. He was
very little, with a belt which covered all his body, but with a beautiful pair
of boots. He carried a guitar; those whom are in sell, Thursdays morning in
the Cathedral. And finally in his head an enormous hat, which covered
from his head to his foot.
He carried four mules with him; it seemed they had no direction to follow.
He quickly crossed Nuestra Señora de Candelaria Church. Near a post he
stopped, he got his guitar and happily started to sing with no fear. And his
voice entered to all the houses of the town. All nights, including a little hit
he made with his shoes on the ground.
When he finally stopped, he guarded his guitar and took his mules. Suddenly
he disappeared, exactly when the first rooster song was listened.
Everybody in town commented. Two women complained, that they could not
sleep on no time last night. They both, thought was some boyfriend of some
of the ladies of the town, that everybody went and song to them in front of
their house.

4.  Everybody describe this lady, thinking that some boy had come.
 “She is poor, that is why everybody come here and sing to her” they said. “But she is very beautiful, always”
they commented.
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 A shame would be that some of this guy would ruin this girl.
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 Nina was very beautiful. The woman of the store did not understood how a humble woman, could had such a
pretty girl.
 Nina was wonderful.
 In her hair, and specially, in her eyes was reflected her grace.
 Her mother wanted for her a good husband; she cared her girl a lot, for that time.
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 But not only her mother took care of her, all the people of the town appreciated her. Everybody was proud for
having her in town. People thought they had to the most beautiful girl of the New Guatemala of the Asuncion.
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 Every day the serenade repeated and repeated every day. He sang Nina new romantic poems. Meanwhile Nina in
her house listened carefully to the songs commotion.
 Hearing the voice, of the man in love.
 Finally opened the window of the room, after a lot of days. She imagined him, big and with muscles.
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 That mysterious man entered in Nina’s house, since then.
 The persistence of the serenades was causing a mess in town. Everybody wanted to know the man who was in
love with Nina.
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 An old woman in the Candelaria Old Church, after the Holly hour, commented to other woman, that they both
had to know the guy who was singing to Nina.
 That night the old woman could view the little man entered with his guitar and a big hat also boots, to one
window into Nina’s house.
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 “Oh, my God! Do you know who is Nina’s boyfriend?” she told, “Is the Sombreron, that’s why she is so skinny.
Yesterday I saw her eyes, and they look like if worms were eating them.” She said.
 “We have to do something, poor Nina” she continued “the goblin” she exclaimed.
 We have to talk with Chayo first to do something.

5.  “She will get ill said Chayo. “Take her away from here, take her to other town quickly, the goblin won’t let her, take her from here”
people advised to Chayo.
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 Nia Chayo took Nina from Candelaria town to Santa Catarina Convent. The first night that the Sombreron came to seek Nina, and he
didn’t find her, he scared to much, at the point that came back rapidly from the same street with the guitar. He loose rapidly scared
and dusty.
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 In front of the altar of Santa Catarina Nina prayed. But she felt his presence.After doing her duties, she could listened the clicking of
his boots and the voice in love singing songs.
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 Since the day Nina crossed the Convent doors, near the convent were two mules drinking water
 Old people of Candelaria said. Nina, the beautiful girl with big eyes and golden hair was depressing slowly in front of the nuns. Until
Santa Cecilia’s night she slept for ever.
 In sunrise she was death.
 The nuns kept vigil on her in the Señor Sepultado Chapel. After they gave the death body to her mother, a Street seller of the
Amargura Street they kept vigil on her.
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 Her mother took the body to keep vigil. The house was full of friends who wanted to see for last time to the girl who was admired by
everyone.
 By the street, at eight o’clock, appeared a little man with his guitar and his mules walking rapidly, The Sombreron.
 Running he entered where people was keeping vigil. He strapped the mules and began to sing a sad song.
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 Tears were coming out all around his big hat. Pain tears. His crying was listened in the entire house. All started to cry also hurt also by
the Sombreron`s pain.
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 No one remembers in town now when stopped that crying.
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 Everybody viewed next day in the street a crying rosary around the entire town. Nina, the beautiful girl the Sombreron love in San
Juan de Dios Cemetery, every Santa Cecilia nights appeared some mules, near the thumbs, the hearing of a guitar and a song is listen.
In a thumb a flower with alb drops. Because as old people said the goblin never forgets the ladies he had love.