Myth and legends.

The Legend of  Devil's Alley

There is a legend here in México about a alley with dark passageway, lined with leafy trees, which also went through a solitary walkway. In that place there was a humble shack and inside a sick man lived. The alley was lonely ever and the legend says that after midnight the evil would appear. One night a brave man to display his courage ignored all the warnings that people said. He walked slowly and when  almost halfway  a figure leaning against the trunk of a tree startled him it was the evil he star to  laugh  about the man and then he felt the earth sinking under his feet, he ran and managed to narrowly escape from a terrible death. The new of the evil stared to be kown by all the village. The authorities decided to take matters into their own hands and consulted with an expert in spirits and diabolic apparitions.  The wise man told them that the only way to stop the demon from leaving his refuge in the ally and terrorizing  the community, they had to take him daily offerings of jewels and gold coins. The presents would have to be placed under the tree. One day two fisher men visited the city and listen the legend, they laughed a outs that and I'm the night will prove that was a lie. At midnight they went to the  alley and when the devil get out they burn it with their torches. The "evil" was a old men that still all the jewelry  and gold. He was burn and sick. Some time after, the now healthy individual– who in the people's opinion was none other than that "fake devil"– repented of his sins and donated loads of jewelry to an institution for the poor.

The end.

For more information about this legend, please go to. 

http://www.inside-mexico.com/legends/devilsallyeng.htm

This post was by: Enrique, Luar y Cristhian.