Spanish Legends: Mount of Spirits, Green Eyes, The Kiss, Master Organist Perez
Mount of the Spirits
Two cousins, Beatriz and Alonso, are playing a game. Tonight is the Night of the Dead. Alonso makes a gift to Beatriz, a blue ribbon, but says that he lost it in the Mountains of the Spirits. He says he’s afraid to go for it, and Beatriz hints that he is a coward. Alonso then leaves with his horse. Hours pass, and he does not return. Beatriz starts to panic. Suddenly, she hears a noise. Too scared, she covers herself up with sheets and falls asleep. She wakes up the next day and thinks it was all her imagination. Everything is fine until she looks at the pew and sees the blue ribbon, filled with blood. His cousin Alonso had retrieved it. Suddenly, a servant comes to warn that Alonso had been found, and he was eaten by wolves. Beatriz discovers that she was dead, killed by terror. They say that after a man was locked in the temple on the Night of the Dead, he saw the skeletons of nobles and Templars. They were behind a woman who swam to the tomb of Alonso.
Green Eyes
Men are hunting, and suddenly, one of them stops because he says he will go where the deer is haunted. The owner says he will not let that piece escape and goes after it. No one expected him to return, but he did. From that day on, he began to go to the lake daily. One day, Iñigo told Fernando that the lake was home to a beautiful woman, and he fell in love with her and her eyes. Iñigo told him that if her eyes were green, then she was the magic of the lake, a witch, and it would only end badly for having disturbed her. The day after returning to her, Fernando told her he loved her and asked if she was real or if she was the devil, as they all said. She said she lived at the bottom of the river, among the herbs, and was not real, but that she loved him. Then they kissed, and Fernando slipped on the ice, fell into the river, and drowned.
The Kiss
French troops enter Toledo in the early 19th century. One of the captains is housed in a church with some of his soldiers. The next day, officers gather at the Zocodover and ask the captain about his night. He said that he was awakened by a noise. Before going to sleep, in the dark, he could see a woman, but she was made of beautiful marble. He stood next to her, but this time, there was another statue of a warrior. The captain assumed it was her husband. Upon hearing this, his comrades decide to go see her that night while drinking wine. Officers investigate and discover that the statues belong to a famous warrior and his wife, Doña Elvira de Castañeda. When they come to the church, all are fascinated and start drinking. A soldier throws a glass of wine at the face of the statue of the warrior. Moments later, the captain tries to kiss the lips of the statue of Doña Elvira, but her husband, made of marble, lifts his arm and hits the officer in the face. He ends up bleeding from his mouth, nose, and eyes.
Master Organist Perez
Manrique was a noble loner whose interests were writing and, above all, solitude. When he was alone, he imagined a fantasy world, a perfect world. Manrique enjoyed walking in the moonlight along the banks of the Duero. One day, almost at midnight, Manrique saw a strange white shape that appeared and disappeared in an instant. It was part of a woman’s dress. He came back to see this woman and was chasing her for a long time since he was sure he knew that woman. Two months passed, and a feeling of love for a woman who had not even fully appeared grew in Manrique’s heart. A quiet night, the moon was shining, and Manrique headed for the banks of the Duero when suddenly he turned to see that flash of the woman he loved. Manrique ran, chasing her until he came to where he had seen the flash. He saw it; it was once before him, but it was not a woman. It was a ray of moonlight that penetrated through the trees.