Oct. 30, 2025
How the Devil Constructed a Church!
What's done in the dark.
Ahoy, my friends! Welcome aboard the Afro Tales podcast. In this episode of Afro Tales presents Unearthly Accounts, join the enigmatic Shadow Man as he recounts two chilling tales steeped in supernatural lore. The first story unveils an ancient curse in Cartago, Costa Rica, where bloodshed leads to a haunting legacy of destruction. The second tale takes us to the town of Curaren in Honduras, where a desperate bargain with the devil results in a church built under ominous conditions. Prepare for a journey through history, mystery, and the eerie echoes of the past.
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By: Dorothy Sharp Carter
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(09:03) How the Devil Contructed a Church
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome, my friends, to Afro Tales presents.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Unlikely accounts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I am your host, the Shadow Man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I will share with you stories with a more supernatural fear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, without further ado, let's begin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: An ancient curse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of a spill blood, stone will leave stone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So goes an old saying in Spanish, in other words, on the spot where a man has murdered someone, no building will stand, either it will not rise, or if it is already there, you
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[SPEAKER_00]: In Cartelgo, one of the largest cities of Costa Rica, the saying is known by each and every inhabitant.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They recited to all visitors, shaking their heads, mournfully, but with pride.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The truth saying there ever was, there should, look, they say, pointing to the church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Rather, to what would be the church, if, anyway, they point to some quite impressive ruins.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is the proof, by now you are quivering with curiosity to hear the sinister story.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It must be sinister, dealing with blood and fallen stones.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it is, affirms, any, or Targaryen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Igly tells you how it had.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back in 1575, two brothers, with the name of Magical, arrived in Costa Rica, both were unmarried.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One came as a priest of the parish, the other came, well, who knows why he came, to seek his fortune to see the world, or maybe for no reason at all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After a time, the bachelor brother, the one who was not the priest fell in love.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not all that surprisingly, as close to recon girls have the reputation of being remarkably beautiful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What was surprising was that the priest also fell in love.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What was early astounding was that it was with the same girl.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Problems, problems, problems.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The girls solve the problem nicely by falling in love with a secular brother.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, in good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Things were really falling his way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, he had a sweetheart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number two, being intelligent and likable.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He had just been elected mayor of Cartagom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's look at the priest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing seemed to be going right for him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No girl, as he was a priest, he couldn't have married her anyway, but he doesn't seem to have thought of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then his brother, for whom he had developed a rapid jealousy, was nominated for a high office.
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[SPEAKER_00]: a decline.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He did his best to prevent the election.
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[SPEAKER_00]: His attempt failed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When the brother was elected, the priest was in, oh, such a state, a bad enough state to make him lose his reason.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On the first day of January 1575, the young magical was to be sworn into office, solemn ceremonies, speeches, high mass candles and prayers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the door of the church, the Marylegt and his committee were met by the priest and his assistance, who were to lead all the days he mens by giving a blessing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As Sr. Magigo lowered his head, the priest pulled out a dagger.
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[SPEAKER_00]: venomously he drove it into the heart of his brother.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The mayor dropped dead at his feet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The uproar was all an uproar should be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not only had murder been committed, it had taken place in a church by a priest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While the onlookers stood paralyzed by horror, the priest escaped through a side door.
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[SPEAKER_00]: outside, his servant was waiting with a strong horse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Off they went, the priest, riding, like the wind across the hills to freedom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The rough ride must have bounced some of that lost reason back into his head.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He presented himself to the authorities and confessed his crime.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was returned to Cartago and tried.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Repentantly, the enough he paid the penalty.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, it seemed the payment was not enough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It might have been for an ordinary one of the male murder, but a sacrilegist murder?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That kind refuses to be paid for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A few years later, do perhaps to age the church fell apart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, it happened at night, and no one was hurt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The church was rebuilt, and earthquake shook into the ground.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The church was again reconstructed, again it fell down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After another attempt or so, the priest had learned their lesson.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They put a church somewhere else.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but some people just want to live up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 1841 a fine cathedral was built on the site of the ill fortune church on September 2nd the day of benediction and earthquake came along and you can guess what happened to the cathedral.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some years later, an ambitious architect planned a church capable of resisting time, fire, and divine wrath.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No matter where it was located.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It went up in that choice site, which was meant from the beginning for a church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So said the enthusiastic, architect.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The walls rose.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The stones remained docile in place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The cartagans went about saying at last the blood was washed away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The curse was lifted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The earthquake of 1910 Enhinged the stones, broke the ligaments of mortar and left them jumbled on the ground.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was an eternal lesson by the cartogans, looking affectionately at the broken stones, spouting flowers and vines and grass, that the blood of the brother would never be raised, that the place would remain cursed for century upon century, a long time, perhaps.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you know how ancient things are, they last a long time, two, the end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How the devil constructed a church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The town of Kudadin is one of the most ancient in Honduras.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was who knows how many years old when the Spanish arrived from across the sea.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that was... Let me think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Over four centuries ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Today, Kudadin still stands.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The home of a famous church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The story of this church bears telling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some years after the conquest, the Kirinese, which is another way of saying the inhabitants of Kirinan, were ordered by the Spanish governor to build a church in their village.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The townsmen were quite content at the thought of a fine church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As a thought of constructing it, piling stone upon stone upon stone upon, they quite continually fill a sleep.
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[SPEAKER_00]: time after time they put off construction, at last.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In a fit of rage, the governor decreed that if the church was not completed within a week, inside and out, upside and down, the town would be destroyed, totally destroyed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The members of the town council beat their heads against the ground, without doubt it was fair way to get an end, get an end in the ancient, the beautiful, get an end their home, a pity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're loomed one health.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are any enabers to the north and formed the town that the inimigo malo, the devil, had himself fashioned the bridge of slaves in Guatemala.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Surely, the kid in ends could reach an agreement with him to build their church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Townsmen Shutter, but a decree is a decree, a church or destruction.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The devil wrote the contract and the mayor signed it with the blood of his veins.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Both parties were committed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On the one hand, the devil was to construct the church, even to applying a coat of plaster, both inside and out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On the other hand, it was his tribute.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He would be presented annually with a certain number of unbaptized babies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: During the night of construction, the Kirinese were under strict orders to stay inside their homes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Only the mayor and town council would remain on watch to make sure the work was well done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The walls would be of stone-masonry, and the stone would be unadorned, no carvings, no embellishment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: even at a price that was at his limits.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, the church must be completed before the most diligent cock could crow this morning's song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Christ is born, otherwise the work was
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[SPEAKER_00]: No one can build a church in one night he whispered.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even the Amigo Malo, we are quite safe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the man was troubled.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He is a shrewd one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't often hear of him losing a bet, and if he wins, the mayor's shivered.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm afraid, he'll manage, and then what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The councillors were silent, the then what was too horrible to consider.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On the agreed on night, the work began at dusk.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Enormous stones were heard to roll down from the hills.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The demon workers hammered and cracked and chipped and smashed, making an infernal racket.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Children cried, dogs hout women wept.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The uproar within nearly equaled the uproar without.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The hours passed, as stone was sandwiched on stone, with lines smeared in between.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The devil stood by, grimly, counting the minutes, the walls rose, but not too quickly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: impatiently, the evil enemy ordered that, to save time, larger stones be used at the top to complete walls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On, went the roof, and built free.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Up, swung the bell.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Splash went the plaster, as it was mixed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The race was as good as lost.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The number of industries demons guaranteed that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Already the interior of the church was plastered.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On the outside walls remained.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Where was mourning?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Was it lost among the shadowy hills of night?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The council is
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[SPEAKER_00]: Better that the Spanish have raised the village.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But just then the workers began slapping the plaster on the outside stones.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They sounded that loving list and most welcome of songs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Kiki Riki, Christ is born.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A moment later, it was followed by a thunderous clap.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As the Enraged Devil fled to the Inferno, with his legions, the killer in his side with tremendous relief, then they looked about, why is it so dark with one, perplexed the mere answer?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand, I don't understand,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not once of a threat of dawn, do I see?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The east is as black as the west, and both are as black as well as night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they are, croaked a voice from nearby.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Always wanted the chance to outsmart that old rascal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: hobbled into view.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Between cacles of laughter, she told of her trick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In her hut, which stood close to the church, she had remained awake throughout the night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In one hand, she held a candle, and
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[SPEAKER_00]: When well before dawn, the swishing around the paintbrushes reached her ears, T.I.L.E.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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[SPEAKER_00]: The gruff old governor visiting Kukerein approved the church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was not informed of either the bargain or the builders.
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[SPEAKER_00]: His only objection were that the largest stones were set at the top of the wall rather than the bottom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and the church was well painted inside, but not out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The mayor explained that they had tried to plaster the walls, but the were plaster refused to adhere and peeled away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As for the large stones, the governor could understand, the laborers had been in a hurry, a Fiendish hurry, the mayor wink slowly, so that some of the stones were said held to Skeleton Here instead of there But so what a church had resulted all together well, huh?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, oh, to get up, reply the governor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Surely, the laborers have twiled night and day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The work had gone particularly quickly at night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The mayor knew it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that is the story of the church of Kukuran, except that not longer go, a boat of lightning struck the church,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Satan has never parted us for winning that bit, the end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, my friends, for joining me this evening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And until next time, remember, you can always find me in the shadows.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome, my friends, to Afro Tales presents.
00:09.097 --> 00:10.139
[SPEAKER_00]: Unlikely accounts.
00:10.159 --> 00:13.344
[SPEAKER_00]: I am your host, the Shadow Man.
00:14.526 --> 00:20.735
[SPEAKER_00]: And I will share with you stories with a more supernatural fear.
00:21.797 --> 00:26.144
[SPEAKER_00]: So, without further ado, let's begin.
00:30.370 --> 00:31.472
[SPEAKER_00]: An ancient curse.
00:35.755 --> 00:39.860
[SPEAKER_00]: Of a spill blood, stone will leave stone.
00:41.402 --> 01:04.851
[SPEAKER_00]: So goes an old saying in Spanish, in other words, on the spot where a man has murdered someone, no building will stand, either it will not rise, or if it is already there, you
01:05.894 --> 01:16.275
[SPEAKER_00]: In Cartelgo, one of the largest cities of Costa Rica, the saying is known by each and every inhabitant.
01:17.369 --> 01:24.057
[SPEAKER_00]: They recited to all visitors, shaking their heads, mournfully, but with pride.
01:24.077 --> 01:32.928
[SPEAKER_00]: The truth saying there ever was, there should, look, they say, pointing to the church.
01:34.069 --> 01:46.684
[SPEAKER_00]: Rather, to what would be the church, if, anyway, they point to some quite impressive ruins.
01:47.879 --> 01:55.994
[SPEAKER_00]: There is the proof, by now you are quivering with curiosity to hear the sinister story.
01:57.076 --> 02:02.366
[SPEAKER_00]: It must be sinister, dealing with blood and fallen stones.
02:03.849 --> 02:09.239
[SPEAKER_00]: So it is, affirms, any, or Targaryen.
02:09.259 --> 02:11.203
[SPEAKER_00]: Igly tells you how it had.
02:12.432 --> 02:24.608
[SPEAKER_00]: Back in 1575, two brothers, with the name of Magical, arrived in Costa Rica, both were unmarried.
02:25.670 --> 02:41.511
[SPEAKER_00]: One came as a priest of the parish, the other came, well, who knows why he came, to seek his fortune to see the world, or maybe for no reason at all.
02:42.993 --> 02:49.883
[SPEAKER_00]: After a time, the bachelor brother, the one who was not the priest fell in love.
02:50.945 --> 02:58.196
[SPEAKER_00]: Not all that surprisingly, as close to recon girls have the reputation of being remarkably beautiful.
02:59.858 --> 03:05.507
[SPEAKER_00]: What was surprising was that the priest also fell in love.
03:07.478 --> 03:13.564
[SPEAKER_00]: What was early astounding was that it was with the same girl.
03:15.006 --> 03:17.328
[SPEAKER_00]: Problems, problems, problems.
03:18.410 --> 03:24.116
[SPEAKER_00]: The girls solve the problem nicely by falling in love with a secular brother.
03:24.136 --> 03:24.756
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, in good.
03:25.978 --> 03:28.781
[SPEAKER_00]: Things were really falling his way.
03:29.702 --> 03:32.885
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, he had a sweetheart.
03:32.905 --> 03:35.848
[SPEAKER_00]: Number two, being intelligent and likable.
03:36.757 --> 03:39.038
[SPEAKER_00]: He had just been elected mayor of Cartagom.
03:40.334 --> 03:42.457
[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's look at the priest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing seemed to be going right for him.
03:46.722 --> 03:55.874
[SPEAKER_00]: No girl, as he was a priest, he couldn't have married her anyway, but he doesn't seem to have thought of that.
03:56.835 --> 04:08.670
[SPEAKER_00]: Then his brother, for whom he had developed a rapid jealousy, was nominated for a high office.
04:09.697 --> 04:10.438
[SPEAKER_00]: a decline.
04:11.159 --> 04:13.603
[SPEAKER_00]: He did his best to prevent the election.
04:14.464 --> 04:15.926
[SPEAKER_00]: His attempt failed.
04:17.349 --> 04:29.427
[SPEAKER_00]: When the brother was elected, the priest was in, oh, such a state, a bad enough state to make him lose his reason.
04:29.997 --> 04:46.487
[SPEAKER_00]: On the first day of January 1575, the young magical was to be sworn into office, solemn ceremonies, speeches, high mass candles and prayers.
04:49.201 --> 05:07.466
[SPEAKER_00]: At the door of the church, the Marylegt and his committee were met by the priest and his assistance, who were to lead all the days he mens by giving a blessing.
05:07.486 --> 05:12.373
[SPEAKER_00]: As Sr. Magigo lowered his head, the priest pulled out a dagger.
05:13.433 --> 05:18.340
[SPEAKER_00]: venomously he drove it into the heart of his brother.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The mayor dropped dead at his feet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The uproar was all an uproar should be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not only had murder been committed, it had taken place in a church by a priest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While the onlookers stood paralyzed by horror, the priest escaped through a side door.
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[SPEAKER_00]: outside, his servant was waiting with a strong horse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Off they went, the priest, riding, like the wind across the hills to freedom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The rough ride must have bounced some of that lost reason back into his head.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He presented himself to the authorities and confessed his crime.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was returned to Cartago and tried.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Repentantly, the enough he paid the penalty.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, it seemed the payment was not enough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It might have been for an ordinary one of the male murder, but a sacrilegist murder?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That kind refuses to be paid for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A few years later, do perhaps to age the church fell apart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, it happened at night, and no one was hurt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The church was rebuilt, and earthquake shook into the ground.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The church was again reconstructed, again it fell down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After another attempt or so, the priest had learned their lesson.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They put a church somewhere else.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but some people just want to live up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In 1841 a fine cathedral was built on the site of the ill fortune church on September 2nd the day of benediction and earthquake came along and you can guess what happened to the cathedral.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some years later, an ambitious architect planned a church capable of resisting time, fire, and divine wrath.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No matter where it was located.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It went up in that choice site, which was meant from the beginning for a church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So said the enthusiastic, architect.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The walls rose.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The stones remained docile in place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The cartagans went about saying at last the blood was washed away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The curse was lifted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The earthquake of 1910 Enhinged the stones, broke the ligaments of mortar and left them jumbled on the ground.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was an eternal lesson by the cartogans, looking affectionately at the broken stones, spouting flowers and vines and grass, that the blood of the brother would never be raised, that the place would remain cursed for century upon century, a long time, perhaps.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you know how ancient things are, they last a long time, two, the end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How the devil constructed a church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The town of Kudadin is one of the most ancient in Honduras.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was who knows how many years old when the Spanish arrived from across the sea.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that was... Let me think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Over four centuries ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Today, Kudadin still stands.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The home of a famous church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The story of this church bears telling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some years after the conquest, the Kirinese, which is another way of saying the inhabitants of Kirinan, were ordered by the Spanish governor to build a church in their village.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The townsmen were quite content at the thought of a fine church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As a thought of constructing it, piling stone upon stone upon stone upon, they quite continually fill a sleep.
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[SPEAKER_00]: time after time they put off construction, at last.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In a fit of rage, the governor decreed that if the church was not completed within a week, inside and out, upside and down, the town would be destroyed, totally destroyed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The members of the town council beat their heads against the ground, without doubt it was fair way to get an end, get an end in the ancient, the beautiful, get an end their home, a pity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're loomed one health.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are any enabers to the north and formed the town that the inimigo malo, the devil, had himself fashioned the bridge of slaves in Guatemala.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Surely, the kid in ends could reach an agreement with him to build their church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Townsmen Shutter, but a decree is a decree, a church or destruction.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The devil wrote the contract and the mayor signed it with the blood of his veins.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Both parties were committed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On the one hand, the devil was to construct the church, even to applying a coat of plaster, both inside and out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On the other hand, it was his tribute.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He would be presented annually with a certain number of unbaptized babies.
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[SPEAKER_00]: During the night of construction, the Kirinese were under strict orders to stay inside their homes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Only the mayor and town council would remain on watch to make sure the work was well done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The walls would be of stone-masonry, and the stone would be unadorned, no carvings, no embellishment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: even at a price that was at his limits.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, the church must be completed before the most diligent cock could crow this morning's song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Christ is born, otherwise the work was
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[SPEAKER_00]: No one can build a church in one night he whispered.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even the Amigo Malo, we are quite safe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the man was troubled.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He is a shrewd one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't know.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't often hear of him losing a bet, and if he wins, the mayor's shivered.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm afraid, he'll manage, and then what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The councillors were silent, the then what was too horrible to consider.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On the agreed on night, the work began at dusk.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Enormous stones were heard to roll down from the hills.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The demon workers hammered and cracked and chipped and smashed, making an infernal racket.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Children cried, dogs hout women wept.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The uproar within nearly equaled the uproar without.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The hours passed, as stone was sandwiched on stone, with lines smeared in between.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The devil stood by, grimly, counting the minutes, the walls rose, but not too quickly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: impatiently, the evil enemy ordered that, to save time, larger stones be used at the top to complete walls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On, went the roof, and built free.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Up, swung the bell.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Splash went the plaster, as it was mixed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The race was as good as lost.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The number of industries demons guaranteed that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Already the interior of the church was plastered.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On the outside walls remained.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Where was mourning?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Was it lost among the shadowy hills of night?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The council is
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[SPEAKER_00]: Better that the Spanish have raised the village.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But just then the workers began slapping the plaster on the outside stones.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They sounded that loving list and most welcome of songs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Kiki Riki, Christ is born.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A moment later, it was followed by a thunderous clap.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As the Enraged Devil fled to the Inferno, with his legions, the killer in his side with tremendous relief, then they looked about, why is it so dark with one, perplexed the mere answer?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand, I don't understand,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not once of a threat of dawn, do I see?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The east is as black as the west, and both are as black as well as night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they are, croaked a voice from nearby.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Always wanted the chance to outsmart that old rascal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: hobbled into view.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Between cacles of laughter, she told of her trick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In her hut, which stood close to the church, she had remained awake throughout the night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In one hand, she held a candle, and
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[SPEAKER_00]: When well before dawn, the swishing around the paintbrushes reached her ears, T.I.L.E.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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[SPEAKER_00]: The gruff old governor visiting Kukerein approved the church.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was not informed of either the bargain or the builders.
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[SPEAKER_00]: His only objection were that the largest stones were set at the top of the wall rather than the bottom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and the church was well painted inside, but not out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The mayor explained that they had tried to plaster the walls, but the were plaster refused to adhere and peeled away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As for the large stones, the governor could understand, the laborers had been in a hurry, a Fiendish hurry, the mayor wink slowly, so that some of the stones were said held to Skeleton Here instead of there But so what a church had resulted all together well, huh?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, oh, to get up, reply the governor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Surely, the laborers have twiled night and day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The work had gone particularly quickly at night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The mayor knew it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that is the story of the church of Kukuran, except that not longer go, a boat of lightning struck the church,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Satan has never parted us for winning that bit, the end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, my friends, for joining me this evening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And until next time, remember, you can always find me in the shadows.
