Colombian legend: The Fireball

Colombian legend: The Fireball

It is a legend of Casanare and Meta.

You have that on full moon nights in the vast savannas of the Eastern Plains of Colombia, near the waters, streams and ravines, a ghost of a woman wrapped in flames appears resembling a fireball, when very closely, you see a skull instead of face. This frightening ghost haunts the philandering men and take drinks, crossing the trails late at night.

The fireball, suddenly appears and begins to approach, in order to hit them until they were unconscious or dead; the mighty Ranger knows that at that time only helps him the curse with obscenities, carrying a bottle with holy water and saying "Ave Maria Purisima" or confront it with the whip of the beasts, until she runs away, screaming and moaning on the plain infinite.

But living out of that meeting, if they are not idiots are well known for their bravery.

One of the origins of this legend is that in a hacienda lived long ago a couple with six children and one daughter. Because of the war, disease and adventurous life and squabbles, the estate was being ruined, the children went to work away and the father died. Only they were mother and daughter, a beautiful young woman with many lovers.

One day she left the ranch with a man named Macario, cheat, thief, womanizer, drunkard, it was the devil himself. The mother fell ill in his solitary agony and cursed several times to his ungrateful daughter and predicted he would go to hell, because he yielded to his wishes and leave her abandoned.