sábado, 20 de septiembre de 2008

THE CALEUCHE



It counts the legend that the Caleuche is a ship ghost that navigates for the seas of Chiloé and the multiple channels of the south. Powerful sorcerers conform their company, the one that navigates only at nights, never with light by day.
According to the popular belief people that have died drowned they are picked up by this mysterious ship from the depths of the sea to be welcomed in the eternal life. Although the craft offers home to those that have shipwrecked, it is not similar of gentile with those that have dared to direct him the front look. The navigators punish to the fearless ones twisting them the mouth or the back, and even in occasions, giving them the death.
To hide of the not wanted looks, The Caleuche has the easiness of becoming a simple floating timber or simply to become invisible. Other they identify it as the ship that hides in the fog that him same he generates to hide of people.
Nevertheless, the Caleuche can also be compassionate. When it navigates near the costs and he takes possession of certain people, it takes them to visit cities installed in the bottom of the sea, revealing them the locations of the big hidden fortunes in the sea and allowing them to enjoy them with the threatening condition that they maintain those secrets until the death. If they don't make it they are exposed to be severely punished by the " sorcerers " navigators. The evil tongues say that when a merchant is able to be made of a quick fortune, is because she has had hidden contacts with the ship " ghost ".


BY: ANDREA FORERO UMBARILA

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