The  Patasola

The origin of that ferocious creature was a love betrayal.

Some time ago in Tolima Grande, in a small service house next to one of the most prestigious homesteads in the region, lived a peasant beside his wife and his three children.

Ramiro Vazquez was the name of the worker, who with toned songs and ballads had managed to conquer one of the most beautiful women that had bloomed[1] in the land: Sarah González, daughter of a large and poor family. The love between them emerged as a ravine between two mountains, so naturally they let themselves get carried by the current. Although it was not much they could have, the love that bound them, raised the idea to run away together and commit the folly[2] of marriage, which they ultimately did.

Afterward, they managed to move to a small house. Ramiro worked as a farmer on the homestead next door and Sara occasionally washed the clothes of the wealthy people of that town. As time went on, they had three beautiful children which became the reason to be together. Notwithstanding[3], with the passage of years the relationship was withering[4] and it became harder the act of enduring. Sara's love decreased with every sunset; she felt her life was being consumed around a cold and obsessive feeling, because Ramiro had ceased captivating[5] her and it seemed he only cared about making money they did not lack.

One day, Ramiro finally met his boss, Pablo Santo Domingo, the owner of almost everything that could be seen nearby. Thanks to his hard work Ramiro managed to gain the trust of the man, who offered him the opportunity to travel selling products that were produced on the homestead. This was a great opportunity that Ramiro did not reject. He began traveling for several days which turned to weeks and even whole months. Although he was always accompanied by the pain of leaving his beloved Sara, Ramiro was obsessed, she was the love of his life and he was not able to believe it.

On a cold afternoon, after a few months since the last trip of her husband, Sarah left their children while they were sleeping and went stargazing[6]. She wandered some kilometers around aimlessly[7] and amid the fog of darkness, she glimpsed[8] a male figure walking towards her. It was as if some sort of spell was taking her directly to him. She went on and when they finally met, those two lonely souls united in a silent embrace and a kiss that did not give rise for words, triggering[9] only an accursed desire.

These meetings began to repeat all nights; Sarah came out and met with him, a man with whom she had never spoken. She never did not know who he was; their language was that which was read with the skin, with their hands and lips. Because they were blind for an irrational desire of the moment that they wished was forever. While they walked to their meeting, many people saw them sleepwalking. The people began to talk and the rumors spread.

Ramiro came from his last trip and the neighbors told him that was happening with his wife, he was filled with rage and despair and planned follow her.  He told Sara that he had to travel again and this time it would be longer than the last one. Ramiro came out that morning as if nothing happened, he was hidden in a tavern where he drank a little and was carried away by the sadness. At dusk he came out and followed the smell of his beloved Sara, ran by the same paths that she had walked, was lost in the middle of the mist and suddenly managed to find her with her lover. They were in the middle of a bed of dry leaves while they made love under the gloom of that night. Ramiro’s world fell apart while he found that her wife’s lover was Pablo Santo Domingo; his boss was stealing the breath and sighs from the beautiful Sara. He penetrated her soul; as if that was going to be the same night in which he will die.

Full of rage, Ramiro took his machete[10] and when the fog disappeared beheaded his boss of one cut; Pablo died immediately. Then fearlessly, Ramiro cut one of her wife’s legs, grabbed her hair, hugged her, kissed her and let her go, a path of blood appeared when she ran to hide in the mountains. At dawn, Ramiro surrendered to the police, but before he set fire to his house so that his children would not suffer the pain of growing up without parents. Sadly he died years later in prison, being nothing more than an empty body.

After that event in the town cries began to be heard coming from the mountain, many men disappear and some could escape from a woman asking for help. She was beautiful, but when they approached her, the woman takes the appearance of a terrifying creature with vampire fangs, one leg, agile and fast; she devours men and sucks their blood until they die. The creature is called the Patasola.