Saturday of suspense: "Nights of capibara hunting"!

jlufer (75)in #life • 6 years ago

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Thank you very much dear friends for the company and reading my post, the days have passed very quickly, again we have arrived on Saturday, day in which my blog becomes mystical and scary, for those who enjoy horror movies, it's time of a pause and enjoy a reading, natural or supernatural facts of life, dark legends told to us by our parents. I invite you to enjoy an urban legend as we did in our childhood.

The land without evil throughout history lodge different cultures, believers and superstitious of paranormal things and beyond, according to their beliefs between earth and hell there is a portal, where assiduously there are entities that return to their homes or places of origins.

Welcome dear friends to another Saturday of suspense, Corrientes are very superstitious, since children were inculcated to believe and respect paranormal things, the land without evil houses thousands of stories of events that have been witnessed.

Since I can remember, living in my country was always a great challenge, the story speaks of the mismanagement of governments and the economic crises they caused, those that the inhabitants had to endure.

The city of Corrientes was always characterized as the lowest economic resource in the country, the cost of living is very high and wages have the lowest average in Argentina, this combination means that people have to look for alternatives to lower their costs of lifetime.

One way that people found to contribute to the home economy was to plant their own food, the soil of Corrientes is very fertile, which makes it ideal. Any seeds that plant fruits!

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Wildlife was an option when it comes to adding proteins to the organism, the land without badly harbors a hundred species that are edible, the Correntino is conscious when using this resource, takes what is necessary from nature to be able to live.

The story of today, narrated in the first person the uncle Juan, something that happened to him in his adolescence and I attribute it to his incessant and excessive way of hunting.

Everything happened a long time ago, in a place called El Sombrero, an inhospitable place, surrounded by dense thickets, scarce taperas in hundreds of kilometers around, a place where misery abounds and scarce basic needs.

Uncle Juan was the eldest of many brothers, they lived in a small adobe and straw house, his father, a caretaker of a neighboring rice farmer who worked for scarce coins, his mother was in the care of the home and a garden of vegetables.

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As a child, the uncle had to learn to hunt to bring some protein to the table, began with what is called light hunting, is to hunt animals with waves and homemade traps, as the arquito and the falsework.

This method does not fail when it comes to hunting partridge, pigeons and some rodent as the apereá. These dams were more than enough while their brothers were small, as they were growing, had to resort to other methods of hunting.

Uncle Juan knew that he had to do something to improve his method of hunting, one morning his father commented at the table, the existence of a temporary job that he offered,

the rice cooker, I do not doubt a single second to work in the annual rice harvest, the work did not last long, with the money saved he was able to buy a shotgun with two pipes, caliber 20.

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The uncle had to go hunting for his mother to cook for his brothers, with time and practice he became a great hunter, hunting everything that crossed his path, in the area there were plenty of hares, deer, tatu and hen of the mount.

As he grew up, he visited other places, that's how he discovered a small island where the capybaras or capybara lived, the capybara is a giant rodent, owner of a very tasty meat, so tasty that it does not compare with anything, even with the pork meat

Every morning he was present in the place and caught some captain who took advantage of the heat of the sun thrown to the side of the stream, his visits became more frequent, this did not go unnoticed by his father.

One morning while they were having breakfast, his father commented that all nature had its owner and we had to thank him for allowing it to be taken, even the capybaras owned a man who took care of them and made them present to those who would abuzaran their hunting.

As expected, a teenager could not believe in these gossip, the uncle continued with the excessive hunt of the capybara, seeing that the uncle did not understand the situation, his father returned to speak with him, warning that his encounter with the owner of the capybara It would not be pleasant, he had lived in his own flesh for many years, it was the reason why he never went to the mountain to hunt animals.

These words entered through one ear and out the other, Juan knew some legends of the owners of the mountain, it was just that Old legends to persuade the hunters! The uncle was convinced that these things did not exist, so he bet even more, began to hunt as many capybaras as he could to sell his meat.

On one occasion, a friend commented that the capybaras at night took refuge from the hunters on the island, a small mountain of land covered with shrubs that did not exceed the three hundred meters around, an ideal place to hunt large numbers of animals.

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This friend in common made see that with great amounts they could get to sell until the leathers of the capybara, something very looking for in the fur trade business. They took time to organize the night hunt, they had to wait for the arrival of spring, the night in this season was more illuminated and warm.

Finally the day of the hunt came, he also did it in the ears of his father, who was totally opposed to this madness, however the uncle was determined to perform the feat. The night came and with it the rays of the moon that illuminated as if it were day, ideal to be able to see their prey from afar.

They crossed stealthily the arm of the Paraná river, the dammed and the camalotes supported their weights, when arriving at earth, they remained lying in the ground not to be seen by the capybaras

entered from the opposite side to the wind so that the animals did not perceive their aromas, both hunters fixed their prey, the most robust animals were the target, after the first shot sounded the animals dispersed, some took the weeds from the field, others they won the camalotes inside the river.

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With his flashlights Uncle Juan and his friend illuminated the traces of blood left by the wounded animals, in the distance, the uncle saw his target, he could recognize the capybara that wounded a shot, the animal walked agonizing in the direction of the reeds , while the animal of the other hunter was thrown into the water.

The very determined uncle followed his prey, away from the company of his friend, when arriving at the place, there was only a big chaco of blood and traces that went into the forest. Something was not right! As an animal would arrive so far after having lost so much blood, now he was not so sure of wanting to follow the animal. For a second he thought of his father's recommendation.

But he had not gone so far as to think of ancient legends, he steeled himself and followed the traces left by the wounded animal, the blood was getting deeper and deeper into the forest, the path as it progressed became narrower, the glasses of the trees darkened the place, the light of the lantern was no longer enough, his heart beat as hard as he could, it seemed that it would fly out of his mouth, in a moment he sees the animal fallen on the ground near a large rock, slowly I walk up to her, when I leave her shotgun to take the animal, the big rock came to life, I could not believe what was happening

A sinister creature emerged from the womb from the rock, his devilish face had great horns, from his eyes they seemed to come out fire, his arms supported great pesuñas and from his waist down it was the body of an animal. The guy remained motionless for a few seconds, his mind knew he had to run away from the place, however his body was immune to his intention to run, the creature spoke in defense of the wild animals, the excessive hunting would devastate the ecosystem and only for this time and last time! I would let him go. No matter what he's doing, the next time I see him in the woods, he would not come out alive from her.

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Upon hearing these last words, he took control of his body and ran out of the mountain, curiously he met his friend who left the island as fast as he could, the young man claimed to have had a meeting with the owner of the capybaras, something very similar what Uncle Juan lived.

He arrived so scared that he could not hide what happened to his father, patiently listened to the story of his son, far from repressing it or saying I told you! I bring clean clothes to change and get into bed. He just said, Quiet, tomorrow will be another day!

The uncle never returned to hunt, shortly after the hat moved, the father got a job in the capital of Corrientes.

This is another story that houses the land without evil, something that the uncle lived in his childhood, no one can certify that these stories are true, as my mother says. There are, there are.

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José Luis Fernández
Corrientes Argentina
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